AMATYC Volunteer Opportunities
AMATYC is always looking for volunteers to support the organization. If you have an interest, we can probably find a volunteer position for you. Some volunteer positions are for a brief time and a specific task (e.g. reviewing and approving the Delegate Assembly minutes), and others are ongoing (e.g. creating problems for the Student Mathematics League).
Want to know more? Ask a volunteer you know, or email your Regional VP, the AMATYC President (president@amatyc.org) or the Executive Director (debora.rimkus@amatyc.org). Not all positions have openings at this time, but this page will be updated as volunteers are needed.
Current AMATYC Volunteer Opportunities
Student Research League Assistant Coordinator
The SRL Assistant Coordinator assists the SRL Coordinator in facilitating the Student Research League (SRL) competition by ensuring a smooth and efficient evaluation process. This position focuses on managing and supporting evaluators, assisting faculty mentors and student teams as needed, and maintaining the integrity of the competition's review process.
Duties include assisting with recruiting evaluators for the first round of evaluation, ensuring that evaluators understand the scoring criteria and expectations, sending student papers to the evaluators, addressing any concerns from evaluators regarding scoring, and ensuring that the evaluation process is completed in a timely manner. The SRL Assistant Coordinator and the SRL Coordinator will work closely together throughout the competition evaluation period (approximately May through September, when the regional finalists and national winners are finalized).
The term length will be two years, with possible reappointment for up to two additional terms. This position does not receive financial support to attend the annual conference.
Preference will be given to applications received by April 1, 2026. The position will start as soon as an appointment is made.
Please submit your application using this form. In your resume and letter of interest, please share your specific experiences that would be of value to this position.
Questions? Contact Jon Anderson, SRL Coordinator, at srl@amatyc.org or Jennifer Travis, chair of search committee, at jennifer.travis@amatyc.org.
Student Research League Evaluator
Student Research League Evaluator: The primary responsibility of an SRL evaluator is to help evaluate the first round of student submissions to determine the Regional Finalists, to be completed by June 30th. More information about this position can be found on the Evaluation Process page of the Student Research League site.
To volunteer or if you have questions, please email Jon Anderson at srl@amatyc.org.
Position Statement Editor
AMATYC is searching for a Position Statement Editor. The primary responsibilities of this position are to coordinate editing of position statements, track position statement review and remind ANet Chairs of position statements that are up for review, and to maintain the position statement webpages by sending updates to the website coordinator.
The term length is three years with possible reappointment for up to two additional terms. Preference will be given to applications received by March 1, 2026, but the position will remain open until filled. The position will start as soon as an appointment is made.
Please submit your application using this form. In your resume and letter of interest, please share your specific experiences that relates to this position.
Questions? Contact George Hurlburt, AMATYC Past President.
Sample AMATYC Volunteer Opportunities
AMATYC Representative to The Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences
AMATYC representatives to the JCW are approved by the AMATYC board for three-year terms. Since each member society of JCW has two representatives on the committee, every third year there will not be a new AMATYC representative. Membership terms are from February 1st of the initial year through January 31st three years later.
Overview of responsibilities:
Participate in JCW meetings: There are three scheduled virtual meetings each year (February, April, and September) with a summer virtual meeting scheduled as needed. There is an optional meeting held during the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) in January for those members who are attending JMM, This meeting is held primarily to discuss the details of the session proposal for the following year's JMM. The sponsoring societies do not pay travel costs to the JMM.
Communication with AMATYC leadership: The representatives should serve as a conduit of information between the JCW and AMATYC leadership. At a minimum, copies of the minutes of meetings should be provided to the AMATYC board. The minutes should be accompanied by a document highlighting any issues or actions that would be of specific interest or requesting action by AMATYC. In addition, this correspondence should include a request for any information or questions that should be passed back to the Committee. The two AMATYC representatives should confer following each JCW meeting about who will correspond with the appropriate individuals, and both representatives should sign off on the reports to the board. Reports should be submitted (on a schedule determined by the society to the person selected by the society.)
Participate in activities of the JCW: AMATYC representatives to the JCW may serve on task forces or committees, organize invited sessions for JMM or other conferences, forward relevant information or issues as they arise to the JCW email list (JCW-COMM@LISTS.AMS.ORG) be the chair or co-chair of the JCW or serve as webmaster or FaceBook (https://www.facebook.com/JCWMath) administrator. Representatives should also participate in JCW projects.
Assist in transition of new membership: When a new JCW representative from AMATYC is appointed, the representative whose term will overlap with this new representative should orient the new representative by providing a copy of this orientation guide (updated as appropriate), minutes of the previous meetings, and offering other assistance.