SHS Young/Early Career Professionals Committee Charter

SHS Young/Early Career Professionals Committee Charter

SHS Young/Early Career Professionals Committee Purpose

This committee will work to support the purposes of SHS through increased engagement and service to/of Young/Early career professionals. This committee is intended to engage healthcare systems improvement professionals that are in the early years of their careers by providing targeted professional development opportunities. The objectives of the SHS Young/Early Career Professionals committee will be:

-  To strengthen young/early career relationships with healthcare systems engineering and process improvement body at large by supporting their transition

-  To create personal and professional growth opportunities, including leadership development for young/early career professionals

-  To increase awareness of these young/early career professionals to the healthcare community through recognition

Time Commitment

The Committee meets at least once a month via telephone conference calls and more often if necessary based upon the scope of work. Meetings are scheduled by the Chair of the Young/Early Career Professionals Committee based on input from the committee members. SHS board liaisons also participate on monthly calls. Committee projects average about 1 hour per week or less.

2015-2016 SHS YP Committee Goals

The following are some of the activities planned for the years 2015 and 2016

1.  Build the basic infrastructure needed to support the Young/Early Career Professionals group within SHS.

a.  Include age and/or option to allow members to self-identify themselves as young or early career professionals in the SHS membership and conference registration form

b.  Develop financial models (membership discount structure?) to incentivize students to sign up for professional membership.

c.  Operationalize the SHS Young/Early Career Professionals Committee

i.  Recruit Volunteers

ii. Develop an operating plan and regular meeting structure

d.  Dedicated web-page specific to young/early career professionals

2.  Collaborate with other committees to support/develop initiatives that are focused on Young Professionals

a.  Collaborate with the Conference Committee to organize the Young Professionals program at the annual conference

i.  Dedicated sessions for YP/EC professionals

ii. Special Career development presentation

iii.  Offer recruitment opportunities

iv.  Mentoring Program

v. Competitions for YP/EC professionals

b.  Collaborate with Education Committee to host at least one webinar where young professionals present their work or presentation topic is of interest to young professionals

c.  Collaborate with the Content and Connections Committee to

i.  Create a section on young professionals in the newsletter that highlights articles of interest to young professionals, recognizes young professionals and also include a special article written by one of the young professionals

ii. Host twitter chats and other big discussion forums that generate interest in participating in the SHS YP group

d.  Collaborate with Academic and Student Committee to

i.  Coordinate the transition of students to professionals members through focused marketing

ii. Participate in the student mentoring program

iii.  Develop profiles for young professionals and post on website

iv.  Offer tips to students on resume writing, jobs in healthcare, as students can relate to this group

e.  Collaborate with Recognition Committee to

i.  Recognize “new” young professional members

ii. Identify nominations for awards such as “New Faces of Engineering”

Measures of Success

1.  Increase in membership of early career/young professionals

2.  Increase in the conference attendance as identified by the YP program at the conference

3.  Number of additional young professionals presenting at the conference

4.  Number of volunteers on all the committees that meet the YP criteria

5.  Articles in the newsletters about YP’s