Officer descriptions
The officer positions are described below:
President
- Lead all executive council meetings and club meetings
- Oversee all club operations; reserve meeting rooms and pilot plant kitchen
- Respond to e-mails
- Arrange following Fall/Spring meeting dates
Vice President
- Correspond and scheduling professionals to speak at each club meeting for the upcoming year
- Requires you to be proactive in planning and researching the speakers
- Must be outgoing and willing to meet new people, it's always good to be welcoming to our guests
- Line most dates up during the summer, and send reminder emails to the speakers at least a week prior to the meeting
- Really great way to network and get to know local professionals within our community
- In charge of sending a "Thank You" email to the speakers
Secretary
- Record detailed minutes of every club meeting and executive council meeting and post these minutes to the website
- Run the club email account
- Keep club members up to date with all club events
- Keep track of club member points and active member standing
- Take attendance at each club meeting
Treasurer
- Experience in handling and managing money
- Creating/managing budgets
- Follow and budget club finances; Collect member dues
- Complete Student Government Appropriation process once a semester to apply for outside money at the beginning of each semester
- Create a financial report for each executive meeting
- Work with other nutrition club officers to determine financial needs for individual committees and the club
- Order club T Shirts
Agri Life Council Representative
- Represent the Nutrition Club at all Agri Life Council meetings and events
- Work with the Food Co-Chairs to prepare dinner for one of the Agri Life Council meetings
- Work with the Treasurer to complete CALS Allocation process once a semester
Monthly Service Co-Chair
- Plan and organize monthly Nutriton Club events (The Stop Hunger Now meal packaging event will be one of the monthly events)
- Advertise monthly events at club meetings
- Exert leadership in the Nutrition Club and will benefit from networking with students, faculty and working professionals
Publicity Chair
- Responsible for planning and executing the Nutrition Club's participation in back to school organization fairs
- Advertise for club meetings by posting flyers around campus, as well as "chalking" before meetings
- Organize club bulletin board and update it as needed
- Assist other committees in their publicity needs, especially advertisement for March Nutrition Month
- In charge of printing, designing, and distributing fliers (and chalk) to committee members
- Have fliers put on the screens in Schuab
Food Co-Chair
- Organize and prepare snacks and food items for all club meetings alongside committee members in Schaub basement kitchen before meetings
- Organize and prepare Agri-Life Council Dinner alongside committee members (spring semester)
- Purchase necessary items to create the snacks
- Maintain the club allotted budget
- Create a food committee to help make the snacks, beginning an hour before each meeting (clean up afterward)
- Organize Potlucks (both semesters)
Benefits of a leadership position:
- Develop leadership and managerial qualities
- Gain authoritative experience
- Experience in public speaking
- Get to know faculty and staff members in the FBNS Department