During a leadership transition establishing a committee of people to facilitate the process can be helpful.  This sample job description for leadership transition committee members can help you understand the variety of roles that committee members will be required to play and may better help you solicit committee members with the knowledge and skills appropriate for those roles.

This tool, taken from RoadMap and Strategies for Social Change’s Leadership Transition Toolkit, offers a sample committee job description that may be adapted for the needs of a variety of organizations undergoing leadership transitions.