LWVOR Staff Availability

For the next few months and into late spring, the LWVOR Board and staff are going to be exceptionally busy. 

The Human Resources Committee (HR) of the Board requests that we all gauge the timing, urgency, and importance of any requests we have of our staff and consider a schedule that takes the following into account. 

At LWVOR we are:

• Creating a new role - Communications and Marketing Coordinator

• Refocusing Lindsay LaPlante's work to be Staff Director of the Membership and VOTE411 portfolios

• Hiring new staff positions for coordinating support for the Development and Youth Outreach portfolios 

Staff are assisting HR with all these recruitments, reviewing applications, interviewing and selection of the three new staff members. All three of the new staff will need orientation, on-boarding and familiarization with the League, and the objectives of the specific work we will task them with.

In addition, the legislature is in session placing significant demands on our Advocacy portfolio and requiring additional staff support, 

We started the budget process for the 2026 - 2027 fiscal year that demands additional time from portfolio leaders, also requiring staff support.

The 2025 - 2030 LWVOR Strategic Plan is complete with working groups developing our tactics and procedures regarding eight separate strategic priorities and objectives of the league.  Facilitating, scheduling and supporting that work calls for additional staff support. 

And this is all at a time when we are short staffed. 

There is a theme here.  Our staff will be quite pressed for time through the end of this fiscal year (June 2026) as we increase our capacity to support the work of the League across the state. Patience is our virtue in these times. 

Thank you and in League,

Barbara Keirnes-Young, Kermit Yensen, and Mark Kendall (LWVOR HR Committee)

Abigail Hertzler and Lindsay LaPlante (LWVOR Staff)