Elections

Officer Roles and Descriptions

We have 4 officer roles as defined in the BGSA constitution: President, Secretary/VP, Treasurer, and Outreach Coordinator. More than 4 people can be officers if multiple people want to work together on a role (e.g. Co-Outreach Coordinators).

All the roles are fairly flexible and the duties outlined below mostly do not necessarily or only need to be done by the person in that role. Each group of officers will come to their own agreement on exactly what each does.

• President/Chair:

  • • • • • Keep track of larger projects and goals, delegate specific tasks to other officers as needed!

          • often acts as 'host' at meetings, including setting agendas (with input from other officers) and keeping the meetings on track/flowing.

          • Main point of contact/representative for BGSA, some overlap with outreach coordinator (degree of this is flexible) in terms of emails, discord channel management etc.

          • maintains Officer Handbook!

• Secretary/ Vice-President

  • • • • • Takes meeting notes (or makes sure they get taken)

          • Attends faculty meetings (Thursdays @ 1pm) as the grad student representative, and reports back to BGSA

          • usually the backup meeting host

• Treasurer

  • • • • • Keeps track of BGSA funds (obviously!)

          • Works with Student Leadership and Involvement office (SLI) to make sure payments are made for events and grant/donation money is deposited

• Outreach coordinator/Social Media Manager

  • • • • • Manages Facebook/Instagram accounts and posts events etc.

          • Admin on UAF science Graduate Students Discord Server (jointly with GIGSA leadership), also posts BGSA events etc

          • Emails regarding events and other communications

All the officers contribute to organizing and set-up/take-down for events. Any tasks related to larger projects and events are distributed among the officers.

BGSA officers also have the chance to represent grad students and the Bio Dept in other situations. For example we were asked as 'student leaders' to interview Vice Chancellor of Research candidates this fall.