What is a Community Leader?
An iVillage Community Leader is a member of iVillage who has volunteered to lead or 'host' a message board for us. He or she greets all new visitors and extends the famous warm welcome for which iVillage is renowned.
A Community Leader (CL) must have a passion for their board but does not have to be an expert or specialist on the main subject. A CL should enjoy expressing his/her own opinion but find it equally satisfying to encourage others to speak. Like a good host at a party, a CL initiates conversations and keeps them going. The challenge every CL faces is to make their board a 'home from home' where members feel they belong and will want to visit regularly, hopefully every day.
Ideas, opinions and humour
He or she is friendly and warm, loves people, is easy-going and not easily upset. Perhaps most importantly a CL has a good sense of humour. It's no accident that the most popular boards are those whose members enjoy daily interaction and having a good laugh.
He or she likes to inspire others and enjoys offering encouragement and support. He or she is happy to answer questions and if the CL doesn't know the answer to a question, he or she is willing to find out, especially as it may well live elsewhere on the site.
A unique and key role
CLs at iVillage tend to be 'homegrown'. We like CLs to have posted on our message boards for two or three months as members before they put themselves forward to lead a board. As such, they are not just familiar with the way our communities work, but they will already have had a chance to display those qualities a CL needs: openness, a non-judgemental attitude, kindness, compassion and sensitivity. Probably other members and CLs will have already alerted us to these qualities.
Current vacancies
Families Affected By Addiction
Celebration Cakes & Home Baking
Mums Due December 2012
Mums Due February 2013
To apply for any of these, please email Stefka.Bambova@nbcuni.com with details of your username, which boards you post on and why you want to be a community leader.
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