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Roles and Responsibilities
The purpose of the NICE Community Coordinating Council (NICE Community): To provide a mechanism in which public and private sector participants can develop concepts, design strategies, and pursue actions that advance cybersecurity education, training, and workforce development. View roles and responsibilities below.
- Periodically review and update the NICE Community charter
- Provide input on meeting agendas and minutes
- Recommend and select NICE Community Working Group and Community of Interest co-chairs
- Recommend participants to perform specific tasks to complete the scope, deliverables, and products of the NICE Community
- Provide guidance to the Working Groups and Communities of Interest
- Provide input to all products and deliverables
- Attend and actively engage in quarterly NICE Community Coordinating Council Leadership Team meetings held virtually in Winter, Spring, and Fall and in-person in Summer at annual NICE Conference
Term of Leadership
- Government, NICE Director
- Academia: 2 year term that is staggered with other co-chair
- Industry: 2 year term that is staggered with other co-chair
- Complete requested tasks towards the development of the NICE Community and NICE Community deliverables
- Attend and actively participate in meetings of the NICE Community
- Provide input on meeting agendas and minutes
- Preside over Working Group meetings
- Create deliverables that are aligned to NICE Strategic Plan or in response to NICE Community requests or, when necessary, refer them to another appropriate Working Group
- Provide updates on the Working Group during NICE Community Coordinating Council meetings
- Provide input into the NICE Community Coordinating Council meeting standing items
- In consultation with the NICE Community Co-Chairs, review, deliberate on, and revise or adopt any recommendations of the Working Group prior to forwarding or presenting to the full NICE Community
- Attend and actively engage in quarterly NICE Community Coordinating Council Leadership Team meetings held virtually in Winter, Spring, and Fall and in-person in Summer at annual NICE Conference
Term of Leadership
Working Group Co-Chairs will serve 2 year terms with a possibility of renewal for an additional 2 years. Terms will be staggered with other co-chairs. A NICE Staff Liaison is assigned to support the working group.
- Government
- Academia
- Industry
- NICE Staff Liaison
- Complete requested tasks towards the development of the NICE Community and NICE Community deliverables
- Attend and actively participate in meetings of the NICE Community
- Provide input on meeting agendas and minutes
- Preside over Community of Interest meetings
- Engage in discussion with participants in the Community of Interest email list
- Provide updates on the Community of Interest during NICE Community Coordinating Council meetings
- Provide input into the NICE Community Coordinating Council meeting standing items
- In consultation with the NICE Community Co-Chairs, review, deliberate on, and revise or adopt any recommendations of Communities of Interest prior to forwarding or presenting to the full NICE Community
- Attend and actively engage in quarterly NICE Community Coordinating Council Leadership Team meetings held virtually in Winter, Spring, and Fall and in-person in Summer at annual NICE Conference
Terms of Leadership
Communities of Interest Co-Chairs will serve 2 year terms with a possibility of renewal for an additional 2 years. Terms will be staggered with other co-chairs. A NICE Staff Liaison is assigned to support the Community of Interest.
- Government
- Academia
- Industry
- NICE Staff Liaison
- Complete requested tasks towards the development of the NICE Community and NICE Community deliverables
- Attend NICE Community meetings as necessary for providing project status updates, obtaining input, or presenting final results
- Consider, deliberate on, and draft reports or other deliverables as requested
- Review and provide comments on deliverables prepared by or presented to the subgroup
- Attend and actively participate in meetings of the subgroup
- Participate in presentation of recommendations to NICE Community when invited
Project Teams are expected to have a 6 month duration.
- Complete requested tasks towards the goals of the Working Groups and Communities of Interest
- Attend and actively participate in group meetings as necessary
- Contribute input to group project(s)
- Serve as Subject Matter Experts to the group co-chairs
View the full NICE Community Coordinating Council charter.