A seat alone does not establish the required duties. Explain the applicant’s direction of management, policy responsibilities, discretion and level of supervision.
Show what the applicant does outside the meeting
Collective governance can be described accurately without attributing every committee power to each member. The case needs the individual’s actual qualifying role, not only the committee’s importance.
If the role manages an essential function, identify that function, the senior level of the applicant, discretion over its operations and duties that primarily manage rather than perform it. Only if the primary nature of the role is managerial or executive. Identify whether the applicant sets direction, makes higher-level decisions or personally delivers routine services, and who handles operational work.
Explain whether the applicant directs people or a function, sets priorities and exercises relevant discretion, or mainly coordinates work decided by others. Distinguish a vote cast among equals from personal authority to direct staff or implement what the committee decides, since sitting on a body is not the same as carrying out its decisions. Ask what the applicant does between meetings to advance a function or supervise people, and who reports to the applicant outside of the committee setting. Confirm whether committee resolutions are carried out by the applicant personally or handed to operational staff for execution, because that distinction shows whether governance work translates into ongoing managerial or executive duties.