Hello Judges!
The International Judge Program is really proud to introduce you all to the first Program Leads!
These judges of varied experience, history, provenance and level will be responsible for the very first year of the International Judge Program with the goal of setting its basis.
The Program Lead Group is the collegiate body of government, representation and administration of the International Judge Program, which manages and represents the interests of the association.
The Program Leads will have several responsibilities like:
- Coordinate the volunteers and creation of Work Groups
- Organize and develop the activities
- Prepare the annual activities report to the General Assembly
- Call, organize and run the ordinary and extraordinary General Assembly, as well as contract the voting platform
- Selecting by ranked voting and changing the Head of the Program Leads, by Absolute Majority
- Inviting any Permanent or Temporary Advisors
- Dutifully analyzing and deciding on any challenge made by any member
- Evaluate and decide the relationship between the International Judge Program and other associations with equal or similar goals
and more… You can find all the details about a Program Lead’s duties in our statutes that you can review here.
But let’s go a bit deeper about the Program Lead group.
This first year will be extraordinary both in numbers and in its duration: for setting up the IJP the leading group will count six members, and the mandate of 4 of them will be one year long to accomodate for the normal numbers after the first General Assembly.
The reason that drives the choice to have a bigger group for the very beginning of the IJP is that this group will need to take care not only of the regular duty of the Program, but also lead some very crucial activities like:
- judge level definition and maintenance,
- definition of the Regions
- adapting the Program to the actual needs of Organized Play
After the first year, when all those foundational activities have been done, with the International Judge Program properly in motion and operative, the Program Lead group will start operating at its ordinary duties, and with a smaller group of 4 members.
Among the first group, 4 people will step down and 2 people will be elected to join the new Program Lead group.
Elections will happen every year on, so that every mandate will last 2 years and the Program Lead group will count 2 new and 2 old members.
But let’s wait no longer, here’s who those people are (alphabetically by last name):
- Alfonso Bueno from Spain
- Bruna Chiochetta from Brazil
- Cristiana Dionisio from Italy
- Khanh Le Thien from France
- Sergio Perez from Spain
- Daniel Schuster from Germany
A big cheer for them for accepting this, we are sure they will make an excellent work for the Judge Community, with the support of a lot of judges that want to contribute to this big project.
The IJP Founding Team