The RAMBO 2021 Board of Directors nominations are open now! This is your chance to nominate new or existing RAMBO BOD members for the 2021 board. This is open to everyone and anyone can nominate someone for consideration. To see a current list of Board members, check out our website at: http://www.rambo-mtb.org/about.

To nominate someone, simply send your nominations via our RAMBO-MTB.org website by going to CONTACT http://www.rambo-mtb.org/contact/ and type "Nomination" in the subject line. Enter the name and email address of the person you wish to nominate.

The vote for the new 2021 RAMBO Board will take place at our December monthly chapter meeting that will be held virtually on Zoom. A link is posted below to join the meeting that will be held on Monday, December 21st at 7:00pm. Anyone can nominate, however to vote or serve as a RAMBO Board member you need to be an active IMBA/RAMBO member. You can join by following the link here: https://www.imba.com/join/chapter/205931.

Open Positions* for 2021 include:

Membership Director
Trail Director - Roswell/Alpharetta
Ride Director
Trail Director - Forsyth County

*You can nominate anyone for any position on the board, not just open positions.

RAMBO Board of Directors Position Descriptions:

President: The President shall be responsible for carrying out the directives of the Chapter Board of Directors. Duties include strategic planning, ensuring RAMBO goals are consistent with the members’ desires, ensuring that important action items are accomplished, researching and pursuing funding, attending SORBA meetings, and supporting all board members and club activities.
Forsyth County Director: The Forsyth County Director shall be responsible for coordinating activities between Forsyth Country Park and Recreation Dept. and the RAMBO BOD. The Director shall perform strategic planning; ensuring RAMBO goals are consistent with the members’ desires, ensuring that important action items are accomplished, researching and pursuing funding, and supporting all board members and club activities.
Vice President: The Vice President will be responsible for strategic planning, execution of RAMBO objectives, and assisting the president in administrative tasks and shall represent RAMBO in the absence of the President. Additionally the VP shall be responsible for establishing monthly meetings and their location.
Trail Director – Roswell- Alpharetta: The Trail Director shall coordinate trail activities in Roswell and Alpharetta, including pursuing access to new lands for trail building, planning maintenance of existing trails, obtaining and directing volunteers at work parties, keeping a log of volunteer hours, developing relationships with local officials, and promoting proper trail etiquette. The Trail Director must be IMBA\SORBA Trail School certified.
Trail Director – Forsyth County: The Trail Director shall coordinate trail activities in Forsyth County, including pursuing access to new lands for trail building, planning maintenance of existing trails, obtaining and directing volunteers at work parties, keeping a log of volunteer hours, developing relationships with local officials, and promoting proper trail etiquette. The Trail Director must be IMBA\SORBA Trail School certified.
Treasurer: The Treasurer is responsible for maintaining RAMBO’s financial dealings per instruction from the SORBA Executive Board of Directors. The Treasure will produced documentation of all of RAMBO’s monthly transactions to SORBA each month. The Chapter Treasurer will work closely with the SORBA Treasurer to maintain all accounts as necessary to follow the federal rules for 501-3 (c) status organizations.
Membership Director: The Membership Director shall create and manage a marketing plan to increase and sustain active members. Duties include developing outreach materials and distribution mechanisms, arranging technical sessions/speakers/activities at monthly meetings, and seeing that “fun” (referring to strategic plan) activities occur throughout the year. This position works closely with the Communications Director and Event Coordinator.
Marketing Director: The Marketing Director coordinates and executes marketing plans collaborated with the Membership and Communications Directors. Duties include solicitations to prospective vendors, organizational donators and SORBA/RAMBO members; as well as, organize volunteer and donation campaign at RAMBO events. The Communications Director shall manage and direct RAMBO communications. Specific duties include writing; assisting, or reviewing important club documents including board minutes, grant proposals, outreach materials, club messages, maintaining the by-laws, RAMBO archives, and providing information to members and others from these resources.
Event Director: The Event Director shall lead all chapter events and outings. Responsibilities include planning, leading and executing events with the assistance of the BOD and Volunteers.
Free Ride Director: The Free Ride Director will lead all items related to downhill and free riding in RAMBO’s area of responsibility. In the case of trail changes the Free Ride Coordinator will consult with the Trail Director before significant changes are to be made to any trail or run. In the order of event planning the Free Ride Coordinator will enlist the assistance of the Events Coordinator when he feels appropriate.
Ride Director: RAMBO’s Ride Director will lead all aspects of the Big Creek winter night riding program and other fun riding activity.
Bike Patrol Director: The Bike Patrol Director will lead RAMBO’s bike patrol programs for each RAMBO trail system. The coordinator will train or organize the training of new patrollers, collect patrol reports and give monthly reports to the RAMBO Board of Directors.