Serves as the chief volunteer leader and Board Chair of DFW-ABA, providing strategic direction and helping ensure that the organization remains aligned with its mission, governing documents, and long-term priorities. This role leads meetings of the governing board, works closely with officers and committee directors to maintain accountability and organizational alignment, and serves as a primary representative of DFW-ABA with members, partners, sponsors, and community stakeholders.

The President is responsible for keeping the board focused on governance rather than day-to-day committee activity, identifying issues requiring board direction, supporting effective succession and leadership development, and ensuring that organizational decisions advance the broader interests and sustainability of DFW-ABA. 

Executive Sponsor over:

Compliance | Community Affairs | Communications | Professional Development | Scholarship

Works in close partnership with the President to support the overall leadership, continuity, and effectiveness of DFW-ABA and is prepared to assume presidential responsibilities when necessary. The role helps translate organizational priorities into coordinated action across the board, supports collaboration among committee leaders, identifies areas where functions or initiatives intersect, and helps resolve barriers that could impede progress. The Executive Vice President also plays an important role in leadership development and succession by helping strengthen the effectiveness of directors and emerging leaders throughout the organization. 

Executive Sponsor over:

Membership| Student Care

Provides financial oversight and stewardship for DFW-ABA, helping the board understand the organization’s financial position and make responsible decisions regarding its resources. Responsibilities include overseeing financial reporting, monitoring revenue and expenses against approved plans or budgets, supporting appropriate financial controls, maintaining accurate financial records, and providing timely financial information to the governing board. The Treasurer also supports required financial and tax reporting, collaborates with organizational leaders on budgeting and financial planning, and helps identify financial risks or trends that may affect the organization’s sustainability. This role is not simply transactional bookkeeping; it is a governance position responsible for helping the board exercise its fiduciary responsibility. 

Output Responsibilities:

Financial Projections | Month-End Processing | 990 Preparation | Annual Budget Finalization

Serves as the board’s primary steward of official governance records, procedural documentation, and organizational compliance. This role is responsible for maintaining accurate board and membership meeting records, documenting formal actions and resolutions, preserving governing documents, and helping ensure that required organizational records are complete and accessible.

The position also monitors key compliance obligations, supports periodic review of bylaws and organizational policies, tracks required filings and governance deadlines, and raises potential compliance concerns for board attention before they become organizational risks.

Working closely with the President and other officers, the Compliance Director helps ensure that the organization can demonstrate not only what decisions were made, but that those decisions were properly authorized, documented, and carried out. 

Output Responsibilities:

Bylaws & Amendments | Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) | Governing Documents| Minutes | Compliance Calendar

Leads DFW-ABA’s efforts to translate its mission into meaningful engagement and service within the broader Dallas/Fort Worth community. This role identifies community needs and partnership opportunities, develops and coordinates service initiatives, builds relationships with community organizations and other stakeholders, and helps ensure that community programming is intentional rather than simply event-driven.

The director works collaboratively with other board functions when initiatives involve students, members, professional development, communications, or external partners and is responsible for helping evaluate whether community activities align with DFW-ABA’s strategic priorities and produce meaningful impact. 

Output Responsibilities: 

Back-to-School Supply Drive | Career Exposure and Awareness Program | Community Service Projects

Leads DFW-ABA’s efforts to attract, engage, retain, and understand its membership while helping ensure that members experience meaningful value throughout their relationship with the organization. This role monitors membership participation and trends, supports recruitment and renewal efforts, welcomes and connects new members, identifies opportunities to strengthen engagement, and helps maintain accurate membership information in coordination with organizational systems and leadership.

The director serves as an important voice for the member experience, using participation patterns and member feedback to help the board understand what is working, where engagement may be declining, and what opportunities exist to deepen connection. 

Output Responsibilities: 

Membership Outings & Events | Management of Membership Listings

Leads the development of learning, career development, and professional enrichment opportunities for DFW-ABA members and the broader professional community. This role identifies relevant topics and emerging needs, develops educational programming, recruits speakers and subject-matter experts, coordinates professional development events, and helps ensure that programming provides tangible value across different career stages.

Where appropriate, the director also supports continuing professional education opportunities and works with other board leaders to connect professional development programming with membership engagement, organizational partnerships, and strategic priorities.

Output Responsibilities: 

CPE Offerings & State Management

Oversees DFW-ABA’s scholarship program and helps ensure that financial awards are administered through a fair, consistent, transparent, and mission-aligned process. Responsibilities include coordinating the scholarship cycle, maintaining application and eligibility requirements, recruiting and supporting reviewers, managing applicant communications, facilitating appropriate selection procedures, documenting award decisions, and coordinating the distribution or verification of scholarship funds.

The director also works with organizational leaders and partners to strengthen scholarship resources and ensure that the program supports DFW-ABA’s broader commitment to developing the next generation of accounting and business professionals. 

Output Responsibilities: 

Scholarship Application Creation & Management | Annual Professional Brunch | 5K Fundraiser

Serves as a primary connection between DFW-ABA and the students it seeks to develop, support, and introduce to the profession. This role helps design and coordinate student-focused initiatives, maintains relationships with colleges, universities, student organizations, and educational partners, and works to create meaningful opportunities for students to connect with professionals, employers, mentors, and career-development resources.

The director also helps identify emerging student needs and works across DFW-ABA functions to ensure that students are not simply invited to individual events but connected to a broader developmental pipeline. 

Output Responsibilities: 

College Student Outreach | Mock Interviews | Student Symposium