diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/maintainer_change.yml b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/maintainer_change.yml
index e24a17a140..29dd62c090 100644
--- a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/maintainer_change.yml
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/maintainer_change.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: Add or remove maintainer
-description: To be used when making changes to project maintainers. See [contributing guide(https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-aws/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)] for details of the projects ladder.
+description: To be used when making changes to project maintainers.
 labels: ["kind/support"]
 body:
   - type: markdown
@@ -54,4 +54,4 @@ body:
         - [ ] Update **approvers** from CAPA image promotion [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/k8s.io/blob/main/registry.k8s.io/images/k8s-staging-cluster-api-aws/OWNERS)
         - [ ] Update **k8s-infra-staging-cluster-api-aws@kubernetes.io** [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/k8s.io/blob/main/groups/sig-cluster-lifecycle/groups.yaml)
         - [ ] Update **sig-cluster-lifecycle-cluster-api-aws-alerts@kubernetes.io** [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/k8s.io/blob/main/groups/sig-cluster-lifecycle/groups.yaml)
-        ```
\ No newline at end of file
+        ```