[Noblesville, Indiana] – [April 9, 2024] Alpha Kappa Psi introduced a new organizational structure for chapter-operations to better align with the programmatic improvements implemented over the past five years. Further, the changes to the volunteer structure (the “Management Team”) will improve coordination with the Professional Staff to deliver more consistent support of student chapter officers and chapter advisors. The implementation of this new structure went live on April 1, 2024.
Over the last several years, the Fraternity implemented several new programs and resources for chapter officers and leaders, including the launch of MyAKPsi, which includes several new resources and online tools. The goal of the new organizational structure is to assist in the delivery of these programs and resources:
- to provide the best support for student chapter officers and chapter advisors,
- to improve the implementation of the Chapter Achievement Pathway,
- to focus on function rather than geography, and
- to focus on individual chapter needs.
This transformation is the first significant change to roles and responsibilities within the organizational structure in 30 years, other than the periodic adjustments to our geographic regions.
The Organizational Analysis Task Force (OATF), a diverse group of alumni, current and former management team members, board members, and staff, reviewed the staff and volunteer roles, responsibilities, and structures to analyze the best path forward. In an ever-evolving world, the fraternity organizational structure was still a 1990s model in a 2020s landscape, meaning it was not structured to meet the needs of the membership.
To highlight a few of the more significant programmatic changes:
Over the past seven years, AKPsi launched many programs and services, including the Chapter Achievement Pathway, the Chapter Business Plan (formerly the Chapter Success Plan), the Volunteer Development Process, the Chapter Needs Assessment, online member and officer reporting in the MyAKPsi community, MyLearning for online orientation, onboarding and training, online event registration, and the Certificate Program – all to improve chapter operations, creating efficiencies, and a focus on developing principled business leaders.
After several years of work, AKPsi is implementing a restructure of the Management Team, which reduces the number of regions from 16 to 4 and creates 12 districts.
- Each region will have one regional director – volunteer development (RD-Volunteer Development), and each district will have a program manager – student chapter development (PM-Student Chapter Development).
- The RD-Volunteer Development will focus on the Volunteer Development Process in recruiting, onboarding, and delivering training materials to chapter advisors.
- The PM–Student Chapter Development will focus on coaching and mentoring chapter advisors who work with student officers utilizing the Chapter Achievement Pathway process and chapter operations resources.
In addition to the changes in the organizational structure, a new process for electing fraternity officers is being rolled out and piloted this year (see more information below).
The purpose of the changes in the elections process is to better prepare for transitions of office that take place on a 2-year cycle. By planning and conducting elections in advance of the Convention, it gives incoming officers, board members, and key staff the opportunity to collaborate on updates to the strategic plan and new programmatic offerings and resources developed by the organization.
In addition to these chapter operations-specific roles, other volunteer opportunities are available via MyAKPsi in Volunteer Central (requires MyAKPsi login).
