A national forum officer co-chairs quarterly regional forum meetings for their region. These take place ahead of the Local Institute national forum meetings (LINF) to proactively share best practice, discuss projects, initiatives, successes and concerns from local institute regions and to discuss issues which affect LIs and, where there are issues of concern which cannot be resolved, will then be taken by the national forum officer to the LINF meeting.
The Local Institute national forum is attended by 16 local institute representatives.
Key responsibilities of your national forum officer are highlighted below:
- To co-chair regional forum meetings
- To prepare and circulate the notice and actions for regional forum meetings
- To circulate the national agenda for regional forums prepared by the CII Vice President for Local Institutes, in consultation with LINF, in advance of the meeting
- To share best practice from the regional forum to LINF and vice versa
- To raise matters of interest and concern from the regional forum to LINF and vice versa
- To attend and participate in discussions at LINF
- To provide details of the election process for regional representatives used by the region to LINF if requested.
Further details including all national forum officers currently in post, can be downloaded below along with terms of reference for the national forum.