Overview

Executive director was a role created in S23 to replace “Team Lead” in prior terms. It formed in part to match the technical director role, which had been implemented a year or so beforehand, and in part because the scope of this role was intended to have a more narrow view of responsibilities, to avoid rapid burnout of Team Leads. In short, this role is designed to take on high-level executive duties. Think of this role as the “CEO” of the team.

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History

Prior to Summer 2023 WARG did not have an “Executive Director” role and only a “Team Lead” role which we still possess as an SDC requirement (see SDC Roles & https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AD/pages/2239398008/Lead+List?search_id=e07faf04-2fcb-4f84-b08b-d5b9f249710e for details). When this role was created in S23 it was agreed one of the “Executive Directors” would hold the SDC’s “Team Lead” Role.

The “Technical Director” role was created roughly a year prior to the “Executive Director” role. The technical director role existed at the time as a way for team leads who wanted avoid some of the administration responsibilities but retain involvement in the sense of technical direction. Splitting the workload between Executive and Technical directors as well as having multiple directors in general has been a successful way of avoiding burn out at the director level.

Organizational Structure

The role of executive director is at ‘director’ level according to Team Charter , which is the highest on the team.See Organization Roles for further informationrole of the team’s Organization Roles . Think of this role as the “CEO” of the team.

Responsibilities

• Satisfy Director Expectations

• Satisfy Director Onboarding

• Speak on behalf of the team to other organizations and represent WARG on behalf of the team Director Onboarding contains most of the explicit dutieswhen necessary

  • Realistically it’s nice to have reviews on emails and dodge this full responsibility most of the time.

  • This responsibility is merely stated to say sometimes executive directors need to solely represent the team and reserve said authority.