4.05 Officer Responsibilities

Each officer of a local chapter has specific responsibilities relative to his/her office. These responsibilities can be found in the National Chapter Management Handbook. In addition to the specific responsibilities, each officer should:

1. Serve on a local Executive Committee.
2. Develop a working knowledge of parliamentary procedure.
3. Attend the RLW, RLC, SLW, SLC, NFLC, and the NLC in accordance with the attendance policy.
4. Maintain close communications with the adviser and other officers.
5. Encourage members to become active in local, regional, state, and national FBLA activities.
6. Be familiar with the Pennsylvania FBLA Policy/Leadership Handbook and the National Chapter Management Handbook.
7. Read memorandums/e-mails from the state office.
8. Be familiar with the local, regional, state, and national constitutions and bylaws.
9. Have an understanding of the duties of other officers.
10. Work with the adviser to start an FBLA chapter in a nearby school.

Each local chapter officer may have additional duties. One additional duty might be to have each officer maintain a notebook of information relative to his/her office that will be helpful to the incoming officers. This information should be kept current. An officers’ training program may be an effective way to make officers aware of their responsibilities.