What: SIOR is seeking SIOR members to volunteer to serve on the Professional Standards Committee.
Responsibilities: The purposes of the Professional Standards Committee are to investigate, review, and evaluate ethics complaints and arbitration requests to determine their efficacy and the course required for the appropriate disposition of such matters (through grievance review boards which are formed as needed), to provide mediation and arbitration facilities for the resolution of financial and contractual disputes involving members (through mediators and hearing panels formed as needed); to conduct hearings for the adjudication of complaints involving allegations of professional misconduct by SIOR members (through hearing panels formed as needed); to evaluate and recommend changes to the Code and its related policies and procedures, to develop case studies and other interpretational aids to demonstrate the application of the Code in business and professional circumstances; and to oversee the Ethics Forum, which provides a pool of members who are interested and experienced in professional standards to fulfill SIOR’s grievance review and hearing panel needs.
Recommended Qualifications:
- Familiarity with SIOR’s Code of Ethical Principles and Standards of Professional Practice and its enforcement and administrative procedures is essential.
- Recent experience on a local grievance or professional standards committee is preferred for appointment to this committee and other dispute resolution experience (mediation, arbitration, ombudsman) is helpful.