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Bring your expertise to the table.
If you've spent time on the line, in the office, or both — we want your eyes on our drafts. A board seat is roughly one review every other month, plus a quarterly call.
Fire Service board
Career or volunteer chief, training officer, safety officer, or company officer with line experience.
Expertise welcome: RIT, Mayday, structural ops, water supply, hazmat, training, leadership, accreditation.
Apply — FireEmergency Medical Services board
EMS chief, medical director, quality officer, paramedic / EMT instructor, EMS attorney.
Expertise welcome: Patient refusal, HIPAA, controlled substances, mass casualty, behavioral health, MAT bridge.
Apply — EMSLaw Enforcement board
Chief, deputy chief, legal advisor, IA / Professional Standards commander, training commander, risk manager.
Expertise welcome: Use of force, BWC, vehicle pursuit, search and seizure, custodial interrogation, Brady, biased policing, mental health response.
Apply — PoliceWhat we ask
The commitment.
- Review. One template every other month, on average. Tailboard provides the draft; you provide expertise, accuracy feedback, and your signature when the draft is ready to publish.
- Show up. One 60-minute board call per quarter to discuss new topics, recurring issues, and process changes.
- Be named. Reviewers are credited by name, role, and agency on the templates they sign off. If you prefer not to be publicly attributed, the board may still benefit from your input informally, but seat-holders accept named attribution.
- Be candid.If a draft is wrong, say so. We'd rather rewrite than ship something marginal.
What you get
What's in it for you.
- Practitioner impact. Tens of thousands of small departments and agencies look for adoptable policy every year. Your review shapes what they find.
- CV / promotion file material. A standing role on a national editor board, with named attribution on adopted templates, is defensible for promotion files and accreditation portfolios.
- Network.You'll be on calls with practitioners from other agencies and disciplines you wouldn't otherwise meet.
- Stipend (when grant funding permits). Tailboard does not currently pay editors, but we are pursuing operational grants that would fund small SME stipends. Board members will have first call when that lands.