Candidates Sought for Vacancies on Board of Directors

CDA is pleased to announce the annual call for nominations for the CDA Board of Directors. The nominations period is open from July 4 to August 10. The Canadian Dam Association relies on volunteers to lead the Association by serving on the Board of Directors.

The Board is responsible for the effective management of CDA.  It sets strategy, develops programs for members’ benefit, provides due diligence and oversight to staff, ensures members’ rights are upheld, and has a fiduciary responsibility to ensure the CDA’s resources are used appropriately.

Elections are held annually to fill open positions on the Board.  The following positions need to be filled for terms beginning at the 2022 Annual General Meeting this October.

• Vice President (three-year term)
• ICOLD Director-at-Large (two-year term)
• Regional directors for British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan.

All directors are expected to attend and participate in regular Board meetings. The meetings are currently held monthly as a virtual meeting and in-person at the annual conference.  The schedule may revert to the pre-pandemic plan of two in-person meetings annually and regular virtual meetings in other months.  Directors are expected to be supported by their companies for these meetings.

• For more information on the roles and responsibilities of Regional Directors, please see the document of a similar name on the Governance page of the CDA website. 
• For information on the ICOLD Director-at-Large position, please reach out to the current director, Michel Tremblay.
• Information on the roles and responsibilities of the Officers (i.e.: the person elected Vice President this year becomes the President in the following year, and the Past President in the year after that) are shown in summary in section 5.16 of the By-Law (also available on the Governance page of the web site). You may also wish to directly contact the current members of the CDA Executive (Terry Oswell, Marie-Hélène Briand, Mike Cyr, and Navin Gautam).
• For even further information regarding the duties of the Regional Directors, please contact your current provincial/territorial director or the Executive Director, Joy Morassutti at executive.director@cda.ca.  To see a listing of current board members and their contact information, please visit the CDA website.