From kalube at sucs.org Mon May 10 13:12:59 2021 From: kalube at sucs.org (Caleb Connolly) Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 13:12:59 +0100 Subject: [SUCS] SUCS 2021 Elections Message-ID: Hi everyone! Today we’re announcing the long-overdue elections for SUCS. We’d like to apologise for the delay. It’s been a slow year for the society – added stresses from COVID made in-person events difficult to handle, and organisational duties started to slip onto the backburner. We hope that with vaccines rolling out, students returning to University, and life generally becoming more ‘normal’ again, the society can start stretching its legs once more in the new academic year. With that out of the way, the election voting process will take place on the week of the 24th of May (with submissions open any time before that), and we encourage anyone interested to run. Becoming a member of the executive team is not only a great CV piece, it’s a great experience – it involves collaborating with friends and those who think alike on a variety of tasks, from managing and setting up infrastructure, to organising and taking part in events, and learning to manage an organisation. Here are the roles available and their general responsibilities: * President – Coordinate and collaborate with the exec team and the society at large. * Secretary – Take notes and minutes during meetings, coordinate with the other exec members on handling the I/O and paperwork for the society, write and edit announcements. * Treasurer – Organise and track the society’s finances, deliberate with the rest of the exec team on where to send funds. * Events Coordinator – Come up with events and organise them, from bullet talks, to LAN (or WAN) parties, to hackathons. * Marketing – Coordinate with the rest of the exec team to produce general marketing material for events and the society as a whole – posters, post-event promotion (photography, archiving), etc. Alongside these roles is the returning officer(s) – essentially, members of the former exec team to help guide you. In reality these roles are rather fluid – managing the society is really a collaborative effort, and it’s impossible to perfectly split the responsibilities in this way. Every decision is a deliberative one – the exec team is, necessarily, a team. Yet this is the general layout, from a birds-eye view. If you want to apply, simply send a message with your name, student number, role you’re applying for, and a (brief) couple of sentences relevant to you and the role so people know who they’re voting for, to vote at sucs.org. Don’t worry about doing this too early, it’s not first come first served. Also, you can run for multiple roles (with separate emails), just make sure you’re interested in them. On Monday the 24th at 10pm we’ll stop taking in new messages, those running will be announced shortly after, and voting will run after that (we’ll announce precise timing details soon). We can’t really stop you from just voting for yourself, but we’d rather you didn’t! If anything changes, we’ll let you know in the announcements channel. Thanks for your patience, and best of luck! Join the discord here: https://chat.sucs.org