Volunteer Opportunity Details

ACTFL Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are volunteer-led groups based around a specific topic, language, or level. ACTFL SIG Officers work together to provide educational opportunities (webinars) and networking throughout the year.

The SIG Officer Leadership pipeline is as follows: The Vice-Chair position will be for a one-year period, automatically rolling into the Chair position the following year, and the Past-Chair the year after that. This will be a three-year term, with one year in each position. This process will create a permanent Past-Chair position for each group. The Secretary position will be for a two-year term, with the option to renew for another two years. 

Below groups and positions are up for election. Interested members must be a member of the SIG and may submit only one application. Visit "My Communities" to check your SIG memberships.

Officer descriptions:

1. Chair
   
   1. Duties: Solicit, organize and select presentations for the annual convention, assist the SIG in articulating and disseminating its issues and concerns to ACTFL, chair the SIG’s annual business meeting and act as the liaison between the SIG and ACTFL staff.

2. Vice-Chair
   
   1. Duties: Coordinate communication efforts (via email/community, etc.), assist the Chair, as appropriate.

3. Secretary
   1. Term: Two-year
   2. Duties: Prepare the minutes of the SIG Annual Business meeting, receive the session proposals and manage the proposal review process for the SIG Sponsored Sessions at Convention

Please review all SIG requirements and guidelines here.

Those interested must submit an application to be considered:

African-American Students - Chair and Vice-Chair
Cinema - Vice-Chair, Secretary
Community Colleges - Vice-Chair
Critical and Social Justice Approaches - Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary
Distance Learning - Secretary
Heritage Languages - Vice-Chair
Indigenous Languages - Vice-Chair
Modern Greek - Vice-Chair and Secretary
Neurodiversity - Chair, Vice-Chair, and Secretary
Spanish for Heritage Learners - Vice-Chair
Teacher Development - Vice-Chair
Teaching & Learning of Culture - Secretary

For anyone wishing to nominate someone else, applicants are only accepted for current ACTFL members. You can use the 'nominate' button to send the opportunity information to someone, to encourage them to submit an application. All applications must be received through the volunteer application on/before 11:59 pm ET on November 30, 2025 . ​Members of each SIG will be emailed a ballot followingly with information about each applicant, including the statement of interest. Submission period will be open until November 30, voting from December 8 - 22, and announcements will be made in January.

Please note, due to the expected commitment level and regular duties, ACTFL SIG Officers are not eligible to participate in other long-term ACTFL volunteer opportunities or ACTFL committees.