NAR Seeks 2017 President's Liaison Applications

March 29, 2016

The National Association of REALTORS® Global Alliances Division seeks applications for the 2017 President’s Liaisons appointments.

President’s Liaisons are REALTORS®, appointed by the NAR President to serve as his or her liaisons to the 85 cooperating associations in 65 countries with which NAR has partnerships. Appointees are generally CIPS designees and ideally, have some knowledge of the country’s real estate practice, culture, and language. Appointments run concurrent to the NAR presidential term, with the term beginning at the conclusion of the Annual Conference & Expo.

President’s Liaisons work to help maintain NAR’s relationships with its cooperating associations while promoting NAR’s programs in the country to which they are assigned. The term is one year, however, in many cases, it takes longer than one year to develop significant working relationships with international partners. With this in mind, consideration will be given to re-appointment where such action will tend to strengthen and intensify relationships. In most cases, President’s Liaisons will not serve for more than four terms. President’s Liaisons are not empowered to officially represent the views and positions of NAR, except when specifically directed to do so by the NAR President.

NAR’s Global mission statement is “to render the global real estate markets accessible, profitable and ethical for REALTORS® to conduct business.” To that end, President’s Liaisons work to help maintain NAR’s relationships with its cooperating associations around the world and help fellow NAR members understand business in the country to which they are assigned. Specifically, the objectives of the program are:

To promote the REALTOR® brand through International REALTOR® Membership, education, products and services
To drive business to NAR by inciting Cooperating Associations to promote NAR’s products and services to their members

In the President's Liaison Program Overview you will find more information on the program, including the President’s Liaison’s detailed responsibilities, the travel grant policy, and other requirements.

Interested individuals must submit their applications by 4pm CST on April 15, 2016 to Supap Jitta at sjitta@realtors.org.