2022-2023 IPN Leadership Roles & Responsibilities

Teams, Directors, and Coordinators

Scroll the page or click on each image below to learn more about available leadership positions within each team.
*Notes: (1) Coordinators may fill multiple roles based on interviews, (2) areas denoted as Director can have Coordinators from any Team.

PsychedelX

PsychedelX

Coin

Internal Operations (Director)

Director

• Facilitate internal meetings.

• Serve as Liaison to the Board of Advisors.

• Maintain updated timeline of IPN events/operations.

• Serve as Liason to the Alumni Board (TBD).

• Manage the annual IPN Leadership Retreat.

• Produce and compile the Annual Impact Report.

Coordinators

• Leadership Retreat Coordinator: Coordinate the annual IPN Leadership Retreat, i.e. design the itinerary, delegate tasks during the retreat, etc.

• Onboarding, Recruitment, and Elections Coordinator: Coordinate the outreach and recruitment for new leadership, and the onboarding process

IPN Labs

Director

• IPN Labs is a new initiative to provide the IPN Community with regular, high-quality Journal Clubs, Academic Seminars, Professional/Career Development Workshops, and Network Opportunities.

Coordinators

• Seminar Coordinator: Organize, schedule, and invite speakers across disciplines to share scholarship and teach the IPN community. 

• Journal Club Coordinator: Organize journal club with scheduling, invitations, facilitating/organizing facilitators and providing relevant materials in advance. 

• Workshop Coordinator: Organize, promote, and facilitate (or delegate facilitation of) professional development workshops e.g., mock interviews, effective communication, PhD programs, etc. 

• Resource and Opportunity Manager: Cultivate professional development resources on Discord and the website. Develop an IPN Job Board for Academic/Research opportunities (lab technician, summer undergraduate research opportunities, graduate student openings, etc).

• Book Club Coordinator: Organize, schedule, and poll members on book preferences, and facilitate engaging book clubs.

Strategic Planning (Director)

Director

• Develop new mutually beneficial partnerships with academic, non-profit, and industry institutions to further IPN’s mission.

• Drive IPN’s growth and development into new domains.

• Cultivate IPN’s presence across the psychedelic ecosystem.

Coordinators

• Conference Partnership Coordinator: Coordinate IPN’s presence at external conferences and events.

• Hyphae Development Coordinator: Coordinate with Hyphae and potential Hyphae to form a sustainable, interdependent network across Universities and Colleges.

PsychedelX

Director

• PsychedelX is an annual, virtual student idea incubator, talk competition, and conference which platforms novel and impactful student ideas around the world. Check out PsychedelX 2022 and 2023 – Help us make PsychedelX 2024 the best yet!

Coordinators

• PsychedelX External Coordination: Judge outreach, recruit Talk Creation Coaches, Develop onboarding for talk creation coaches, Develop the initial and final judging criteria.

• PsychedelX Chief Programming Coordinator: Create the professional development, science communication, and career development curriculum, resources, and programming for the PsychedelX Process.

• PsychedelX Programming Assistant Coordinator: Coordinate with and support the Chief Programming Coordinator. 

• PsychedelX Chief Conference Coordinator: Manage the actual PsychedelX Conference, Schedule, Keynotes, Workshops, and any other live-sessions. 

• PsychedelX Chief Participant Coordinator: Develop the applications, Application outreach, Develop application review process, find prizes for participants, Participant communications.

• PsychedelX Participant Assistant Coordinator: Coordinate with and support the Chief Participant Coordinator. 

Community Engagement

Director

• Engage the IPN Spore (Member) community with educational, wellness, social, and career exploration activities.

• Cultivate relationships between Spores across the IPN Network!

Coordinators

• Educational Events Coordinator: Educational lectures, panels, and discussions around a variety of topics (i.e. Community partners as guest speakers, guide to mushroom foraging, Psychonautic topics) 

• Wellness Events Coordinator:  Integration circles, yoga, breathwork, mindfulness, harm reduction and all things having to do with wellness holistically.

• Social Events Coordinator: Organize events to bring people together for engaging discussions and interactions, such as Shoot the Shitake, open mic nights, and virtual dance parties.

• Career Opportunity Networking Coordinator: Develop job board for non-academic opportunities (work closely with IPN Labs) and CV/Resume depository for spores.  

• Career Webinar Series Coordinator: Coordinate the (non-academic) career exploration webinar series.

Media

Director

• Manages IPN reach and impact through social media and other forms of content creation.

• Responsible for overseeing graphic design, website development, and multi-media content generation. Provide final approval for external content.

Coordinators

• PsychedelX Media Coordinator (Liaison): Create original graphics for initiatives, ensure consistent branding, serve as copywriter,, facilitates IPN’s social media presence in LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tik-Tok, etc. for all PsychedelX initiatives.

• IPN Labs Media Coordinator (Liaison): Create original graphics for initiatives, ensure consistent branding, serve as copywriter,, facilitates IPN’s social media presence in LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tik-Tok, etc. for all IPN Labs initiatives.
• Community Engagement Media Coordinator (Liaison): Create original graphics for initiatives, ensure consistent branding, serve as copywriter,, facilitates IPN’s social media presence in LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tik-Tok, etc. for all Community Engagement initiatives.

• Website Coordinator:  Build and manage the IPN website and members’ only page.

• Newsletter Coordinator: Manage and produce the monthly newsletter and weekly email updates.

• Blog Coordinator: Manage and produce the website blog.

• Store and Sales Coordinator: Monitor sales, warehouse excess merchandise, orchestrate merchandise creation and design, coordinate shipping for orders.

Coin (Director)

Director

• Manage all financial aspects of IPN operations, including fundraising, developing financial sponsorships, and accounting. 

Coordinators

• Accounting Coordinator: Manage budget, create financial reports, audit and review financial assets regularly, provide feasibility analysis to new programs based on cost / profit margins.

• Revenue Coordinator: Create comprehensive revenue / fundraising calendar, establish connections that result in either donations ($ for no exchange) or sponsorship ($ for deliverables).