Wikipedia:Mediation Committee/Chair

The role of the Chair of the Mediation Committee is one of co-ordination and representation, rather than one of leadership or oversight. Broadly speaking, the Chair maintains the mediation processes (especially requests for mediation) and represents the Committee's interests and consensus where needed (such as determining the consensus of the MedCom with regards to the nominations process).

The duties of the Chair can also carried out by other members of the Committee when the Chair is unavailable. Typical duties include, but are not limited to:


 * Requests for mediation: Accepting and rejecting requests on the Committee's behalf, ensuring required details are provided in requests, ensuring Committee policies and procedures are carried out, notifying parties of case status, alerting Committee members of unassigned cases, etc.
 * Wikipedia:Mediation Committee: Ensure proper formatting of new membership nominations, maintain archives of past nominations, promote or deny nominations (as the Committee directs), maintain the lists of active and emeritus members
 * Requests for arbitration: Monitor arbitration requests and represent the Mediation Committee's interests where necessary, making referrals of failed mediations where decided by the Committee as a whole, and protecting the integrity of the Mediation Committee's proceedings (for example, the privileged nature of mediation)
 * Internal: Maintain the internal mailing list and internal process pages
 * Spokesperson: Act as the official voice of the Committee for formal announcements (for example, the results of mediations, transferal of cases to arbitration, new Committee projects, etc.).