Use your knowledge and experience to make a difference to water services in your region!
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Nominations are now open and will close at 5pm, Friday 25 May, 2012
You are now able to nominate for one of 32 positions available on 8 of our Water Services Committees. Working with your fellow committee member, you will be at the forefront of shaping G-MW services in your local area, providing advice to G-MW and the Board on local services, prices and operations.
What's involved?
The key role is to ensure the experience of local customers helps shape the ideas, advice and suggestions your Committee provides to G-MW. To help this process, G-MW provides briefing papers for your regular meetings, and the committee will have access to G-MW management and other representatives on relevant issues.
All committee members are paid an allowance and must comply with the Code of Conduct and Committee Charter.
What if there are more people nominated than available positions?
G-MW may conduct a local ballot to reduce the number of nominations to the number of available vacancies. All nominations are then submitted to the board who consider nominations before making appointments. In making appointments the Board considers the committee's mix of skills, experience and industries and values diversity in age, gender and cultural representation.
How many positions are available?
Each committee has up to nine members and a number of positions are declared vacant each year. This year there are vacancies on eight of the committees and the number vacant for each committee is shown below:
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Irrigation Area Water Services Committees
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Positions Available
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Central Goulburn
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3
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Shepparton
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3
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Loddon Valley
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3
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Rochester
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5
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Torrumbarry
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3
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Murray Valley
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3
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Other Committees
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Loddon Water District
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9
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Tungamah Water District
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3
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There are no positions available on G-MW's Regional Water Services Committees this year.
How do I nominate?
Information packs and nomination forms are available from your local G-MW Customer Service Centre or below (please select your relevant Water Services Committee):
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Becoming a WSC member and the WSC Appointment Process
In your role as a WSC member you can use you knowledge and experience to help shape G-MW's operations in your region.
All members of G-MW's Water Services Committees are directly appointed by the Board of G-MW and usually for a term of 3 years. Each year a number of positions will come up for reappointment and local individuals are welcome to apply to fill a position.
Who can join a WSC?
Water Services Committee's are made up of 8-10 representatives from an Irrigation Area, with some appointments from specific localities within the area.
To be appointed to a WSC you must
- be a resident of the local area but you do not need to be a G-MW customer.
- be proposed and seconded by a G-MW customer resident in the local area.
What's involved?
In joining a WSC you are making a commitment to provide advice to G-MW on matters relevant to G-MW's water services in your Area - it's an important role!
You will also be a contact for local customers who may want to build their understanding or express their views on current operations and policy matters
To help you fulfil this commitment your Committee will have access to support from your local G-MW Operations Area team and through them access to the resources of G-MW.
G-MW's WSCs meet monthly and meetings can run for several hours. Previous meeting minutes, an agenda and any other relevant briefing materials will be provided to you in advance and for discussion at the meeting.
There are also several WSC Forums and quarterly Chairs and Deputies meetings throughout the year.
G-MW's WSCs are recognised as leaders in their region and for this reason a range of Victorian and Commonwealth Government departments and Agencies may seek to access to the Committee's knowledge and expertise to inform their policy development. G-MW works in partnership with these Agencies to coordinate these requests.
WSC members are required to sign and adhere to the code of conduct and charter.
How do I become a WSC member?
Contact your local Area Manager and WSC Chair to express your interest either by phone or through the "contact your WSC" online form. They will then further explain the process to you.
Appointment Process
Look out for ads calling for nominations - Each year, G-MW calls for nominations of individuals within defined irrigation areas who would like to be appointed to the WSC in their local area. The advertisements appear on our website and in local papers around May.
If the number of nominations received for a WSC exceeds the number of committee vacancies, an election procedure may be used to reduce the number of nominations to the number of positions available. The election procedure is undertaken by postal ballot within the local area.
At the end of the nominations process, the G-MW Board considers all nominations for vacancies and appoints suitable candidates to the committees.
The final step in your appointment is to ensure you have completed a declaration of interests and an acknowledgement of compliance with the WSC Charter and Code of Conduct. These documents are available on the G-MW website.
Following appointments to the committees, the Board will conduct interviews to appoint committee Chairs on advice from the committees.
For more information contact G-MW through the Contact Us form or call your local customer service centre.