2016 Wesleyan Discipline:General Superintendent Administrative Responsibilities

Administrative Responsibilities

(15) To maintain professional integrity by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications, and establishing professional networks.

(16) To counsel with the general officials and the executive officers under direct supervision, and to assure general officials administer their work in harmony with The Discipline, the respective Policy of the General Board, and any other directives from the General Conference, the General Board or its Executive Board.

(17) To hold the executive director of each division accountable for goals set in collaboration with the General Superintendent and the Executive Cabinet, and to submit annually to the Executive Board the evaluations of the officers of the Executive Cabinet.

(18) To serve as or to appoint the chair of the General Conference Planning Committee which is comprised of the Executive Cabinet and any others appointed by them (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1570, 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1576).

(19) To work in collaboration with the Executive Director of Global Partners to strategically determine the best use of the General Superintendent’s presence in overseas gatherings.

(20) To supervise subsidiary corporations as specified in The Discipline 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4300-4310.

(21) To recommend to the General Board any modifications to The Discipline made necessary when conflict over church administration arises at the local, district, or General Church level (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1797).

(22) To serve as an ex officio member of the International Conference and International Board of General Superintendents.

(23) To designate the Chief of Staff as the emergency contact person in the absence of the General Superintendent.

(24) To appoint fraternal delegates and representatives for The Wesleyan Church to other denominations or religious organizations unless otherwise provided for by the General Conference or the General Board.

(25) To visit annually and conduct an administrative survey of each educational and benevolent institution; to approve the bylaws (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4350:2); to review, as needed, the records and minutes of affiliate corporations (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4350:7, 9); and to exercise care lest any adjunct entity create the impression of being a part of any entity of The Wesleyan Church (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4370:5).

(26) To meet with any governing board, district board of administration, committee or other official body, at the discretion of the General Superintendent, and make those recommendations deemed necessary to uphold The Discipline and carry out the directives of the General Conference (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:350:4), the General Board (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1655) or its Executive Board (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1785).