vice-chair
Backup leadership role
A vice-chair is someone who ranks second to the chair of a committee, board, or organization, typically assuming the chair's duties in their absence.
The term is interchangeable with vice-chairman or vice-chairwoman, though vice-chair avoids gendered language: She served as vice-chair of the finance committee for three years.
Immediate subordinate to leader
- deputyAuthorized substitute or assistant
- lieutenantJunior commissioned officer
- assistantOne who aids another
- understudyBackup actor, ready nightly
stand-in · backup · proxy · surrogate · subordinate · aide · adjutant · coadjutor
Flat rigid panel
- committeeAppointed group for duties
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- bylawsOrganization's internal regulations
- charterFounding organizational document
fiduciary · trusteeship · directorship · stewardship · quorum · resolution · motion · deliberation
Authorized representative communicator
- delegateEntrust authority to another
- ambassadorOfficial foreign representative
- advocatePublic cause supporter
- liaisonConnector between groups
intermediary · proxy · envoy · negotiator · emissary · representative · mediator · agent
Leading a formal gathering
- facilitationMaking tasks easier
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
- delegationTransferring responsibility downward
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
administration · scheduling · steering · conducting · moderating · convening · organizing · representing
second-in-command
Immediate subordinate to leader
- deputyAuthorized substitute or assistant
- lieutenantJunior commissioned officer
- assistantOne who aids another
understudy · stand-in · backup · proxy · surrogate · subordinate · aide · adjutant · coadjutor · successor
board
Flat rigid panel
- committeeAppointed group for duties
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- bylawsOrganization's internal regulations
charter · fiduciary · trusteeship · directorship · stewardship · quorum · resolution · motion · deliberation · minutes
spokesperson
Authorized representative communicator
- delegateEntrust authority to another
- ambassadorOfficial foreign representative
- advocatePublic cause supporter
liaison · intermediary · proxy · envoy · negotiator · emissary · representative · mediator · agent · diplomat
presiding
Leading a formal gathering
- facilitationMaking tasks easier
- coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
- delegationTransferring responsibility downward
supervision · administration · scheduling · steering · conducting · moderating · convening · organizing · representing · liaising
vice-chairchair
Single-person sitting furniture
chairman · chairwoman · chairperson · president · presiding officer
chair, vice, chairman, chairperson, viceroy, cochair, cochairman, cochairperson, cochairwoman