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Looking for a way to get involved with COTA? This is the spot to be! Below are a list of the current COTA committees and position openings per committee. Please fill out this Committee Application form if you see a position you'd like to fill. Within a few days you'll receive a follow up email from the Committee Director. Most positions are flexible, so if you have questions, feel free to reach out and ask!

Not seeing what you're looking for below? No worries! We're happy to take on any opportunity to get more people involved. If you have an additional way you'd like to contribute, please email contact@cotamtb.com with your name, how you want to get involved, and what skills you'd like to contribute. 

Advocacy Committee 

Advocacy Committee Director: Bill Lynch
Email: Bill.lynch@cotamtb.com
The goal of the Advocacy Committee is to design and implement campaigns that advocate for a variety of trail-related topics. Represent COTA and the mountain bike community in various stakeholder forums.
Advocacy committee member
Time requirement: 5 hours/month; flexible
Commitment level: Preferably ongoing; 1 year minimum
Positions available: 3+

Job Responsibilities:
Be part of the ground-up development of this committee. Bring your passion, vision, and general self-starter motivation to cultivate the strategies and responsibilities of COTA’s advocacy work. Contribute your skills, experience and insights to help elevate and diversify COTA’s presence in the community.

Development Committee

Development Committee Chair: Robert Pease
Email: Robert.pease@cotamtb.com
The Development Committee is responsible for generating ongoing and sustainable resources to support COTA’s work. Join the skilled and passionate teams that enable COTA’s vision to manifest.
Development Committee Manager
Time requirement: Minimum 3-5 hours/week; flexible 
Commitment level: Preferably ongoing; 1-2 year minimum 
Positions available: 1

Job Responsibilities:
Work closely with COTA’s Development Director to plan and lead monthly Development Committee meetings. Work with committee members to delegate tasks in the Development Plan and track their accomplishment. Train volunteers to represent COTA and ensure consistent messaging about COTA’s work.
 
Individual donor developer
Time requirement: Minimum 3-5 hours/week; flexible 
Commitment level: Preferably ongoing; 1-2 year minimum
Positions available: 7 (must receive endorsement from COTA's Development Director)

Job Responsibilities: 
Develop relationships with 8-10 individual donors. Working closely with COTA’s Development Director, make consistent personal contact with donors to provide updates about COTA’s work, give them opportunities to ask questions, and discuss their giving plans.
Business sponsor developer
Time requirement: Minimum of 3-5 hours/week; flexible
Commitment level: Preferably ongoing; 1 year minimum
Positions available: 2

Job Responsibilities:
Research potential business sponsors and develop a list. Make initial contact with them to assess their interest in supporting COTA. Working with COTA’s Development Director and Board members, meet with interested sponsors to secure their support. Develop standards for brand partnerships. Attend monthly Development Committee meetings.
Fundraising opportunity developer
Time requirement: Minimum of 3-5 hours/month; flexible
Commitment level: Preferably ongoing; 1 year minimum
Positions available: 2

Job Responsibilities:
Research potential fundraising opportunities (e.g., pint nights, Mount Bachelor collaboration, $5 Friday). Work with COTA’s Development Director and Board Members to determine which opportunities to pursue. Lead effort to actualize selected opportunities, working with COTA staff, Board, and other committee members as needed. Attend monthly Development Committee meetings.
data specialist
Time requirement: 10 hours/month; flexible
Commitment level: 1-2 years preferred
Positions available: 1

Job Description: 
Collect data about COTA, trails, and mountain biking. Research, install, and manage trail counters. Collect and review relevant research about trails and mountain biking from organizations (such as Visit Bend) and academic researchers. Design and manage relevant surveys, focus groups, and other data collection tools and methods.

Education Committee

The Education Committee is new and will be on hold until we find a committee chair! If you would like to lead this committee, please email contact@cotamtb.com.
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The goal of the Education Committee is to design and implement creative solutions that educate riders and other trail users about proper trail etiquette and responsible riding.
Education committee member
Time requirement: 5 hours/month; flexible
Commitment level: Preferably ongoing; 1 year minimum
Positions available: 3+

Job Responsibilities:
Be part of the ground-up development of this committee. Bring your passion, vision, and general self-starter motivation to cultivate the strategies and responsibilities of COTA’s education work. Contribute your skills, experience and insights to help anchor the principles and purposes of bringing education to the community.
historian
Time requirement: 10 hours/month; flexible
Commitment level: 1-2 years preferred
Positions available: 1

Job Description:
Collect and document COTA’s history. Interview people involved in the early days of COTA and document their stories. Find news articles, photos, and personal memorabilia. Visit the US Forest Service archives to find old maps and other trail documentation. Organize and store information. Present information to the public.

Events Committee

Events Committee Director: Vanessa Fron
​Email: Vanessa.fron@cotamtb.com
The Events Committee represents COTA by hosting and attending community events such as Trail Love, local bingo, fundraisers, movie nights and more!

​The Events Committee hosts regular meetings on the first Tuesday of every month at 5pm.  
Event representative
Time requirement: 5 hours/month; flexible
Commitment level: Preferably ongoing; 1 year minimum 
Positions available: 4+

Job Responsibilities: 
​Do a variety of tasks to support logistics for fundraising events including set up and take down, staffing events and talking to people about COTA’s mission and projects, maintaining and improving marketing supplies, contacting vendors to secure donations for raffles, and planning for food and drinks at events. Works closely with COTA’s Events Manager. Encouraged to attend monthly Development Committee meetings.

Marketing Committee

Marketing Committee Director: Emmy Andrews
​Email: Emmy.andrews@cotamtb.com
The goal of the Marketing Committee is to design and implement creative, cost-effective marketing strategies that build awareness around COTA’s mission. Create an identifying brand for COTA and strategies for widening COTA's reach in the community.
Marketing committee member
Time requirement: 5 hours/month; flexible
Commitment level: Preferably ongoing; 1 year minimum
Positions available: 3+

Job Responsibilities:
Be part of the ground-up development of this committee. Bring your passion, vision, and general self-starter motivation to cultivate the strategies and responsibilities of COTA’s marketing work. Contribute your skills, experience and insights to help streamline COTA’s marketing, brand, and visibility in the community.
Media specialist
Time requirement: 2-3 hours/ week
Commitment level: 
Positions available: 2

​Job Description:
Take compelling, high-quality photographs of trails, trail work, and mountain biking. Increase COTA’s capacity for video content. Work with Marketing Committee to record videos and to do other media- related tasks.

Membership Committee

Membership Committee Director: Vanessa Fron
Email: Vanessa.fron@cotamtb.com
The Membership Committee is in charge of handling the membership database, sending out membership stickers, conducting monthly/annual reports, and recruiting members.
member sticker send out
Time requirement: 4-8 hours/month
Commitment level: monthly; very flexible
Positions available: 2+

Job Description: 
Help COTA’s Program Coordinator send membership stickers and thank you cards to new and renewing members every 2 weeks. We have all the materials needed and this position is very flexible. A simple task, but the more the merrier!
Member data entry
​Time requirement: 4 hours/week
Commitment level: consistent availability preferred
Positions available: 2

Job Description: 
Help COTA’s Program Coordinator send thank you/donation acknowledgment emails to COTA members. Improve email templates. Analyze member data to improve communications. Must be kind and respectful and have excellent attention to detail.

Trail Stewardship

Trails Program Manager: Alex Brieger
Email: Alex.brieger@cotamtb.com
​The Trail Stewardship teams focus on the construction of new trails and the maintenance of existing trails and bike park areas.

Women of COTA

WoCOTA Directors: Kate Eng and Rene Warne
Kate's email: 2kateeng@gmail.com
Rene's email: Rene.warne@live.com
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