Strategy and Organizational Effectiveness Committee Charter
Working with PEAK staff, the Strategy and Organizational Effectiveness Committee (“the Committee”) provides counsel and monitoring of PEAK’s strategy, organizational effectiveness, and performance assessment.
Responsibilities
The Committee’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Helping to set a cadence of strategic reflection and planning;
- Providing oversight and advice during staff-led strategic planning meetings and coordinating full-board focus on strategy and organizational direction;
- Ensuring the full board participates in the strategic planning process
- Advising on and recommending to the board a staff-developed set of organization-wide performance indicators relevant to PEAK’s organizational and strategic effectiveness;
- Supporting staff efforts to meet or revise performance targets as needed;
- Assisting staff annually in reporting to the full board on progress toward those performance indicators;
- Encouraging opportunities for board and staff to promote a continuous learning culture;
- Advising staff about short-term, strategic opportunities (e.g., potential partnerships and shutting down or adding significant new programs not envisioned in the board-approved strategic plan); and
- Supporting board and staff representing PEAK in reporting on PEAK’s performance to membership and other audiences.
Structure
The Strategy and Organizational Effectiveness Committee is an ad hoc committee of the PEAK Grantmaking Board. The Committee may form subcommittees to work on specific tasks, but all decisions or recommendations by subcommittees shall be presented to all members of the Committee before being put before the board.
Composition
The Committee has a chair or two cochairs appointed by the Governance Committee for a two-year term. Committee members are appointed by the Governance Committee and may be board and non-board members. Board members on the Committee serve a three-year term, coinciding with their board term. Non-board members serve a one-year, renewable term. The Committee does not have a set number of members required, however it is desirable to have between five and eight members. The Committee should include at least one current and one former member of the Executive Committee to inform the executive performance assessment.
Meetings
Each year, the Committee meets prior to each quarterly board meeting and as many additional times as the Committee deems necessary. At least one meeting each year will be devoted to performance assessment and reported to the full board.
Staff Liaison
The president and CEO and the programs and knowledge director will serve as staff liaisons to this team to facilitate its work.