Events & Media Officers
These two roles should be your biggest focus, for the most part. Ideally, you will work really closely with both of them to try and keep club engagement as high as possible (ignore that there is now an engagement officer, it's a different kind of engagement, trust).
Events Officer
The official description for the events officer is as follows:
Organising events, volunteering and fundraising
Very descriptive.
For the most part, you won't need to get too involved in the organisation and running of any events, but what you should do is keep in close contact with your Events Officer to keep up-to-date with their plans. I would urge you to look back on the club Instagram account to see what we did during our year, as we had probably our strongest ever RAG (Raising & Giving) year to date. I want you to beat it.
That means you have to raise more money than ever, run higher quality events if you can manage, and promote the living daylights out of every single event. This is where it is so so so important to have the Events and Media officers in constant communication so that promotion can be as strong as possible. Your job is to make sure that is happening. Make sure there is a good, consistent events plan in place, and to make sure there is clear communication between Events and Media to make it happen. One thing we discovered this year is how much of an effect media has on the success of events.
Media Officer
Here's TeamUoP's official description of media officer, however self-explanatory it may be:
Raising the profile of your club
I literally didn't think it was possible to get less descriptive than their definition of Events Officer, but they've gone and done it, the mad-lads.
I've had an incredible amount of experience with this role. That is because I was our Media Sec for the first half of our year. I am going to say this once and once only: if your Media Officer has not come up with a weekly/monthly media plan, please sit down with them and come up with one.
Make sure they are in contact with Andy - he is the master media man.
As long as your Media Officer has a clear and consistent plan, you'll be fine. They are free to take the style of the media in whatever direction they want, and you are free to have as much or as little input in that as you'd like, but I would suggest leaving them to do their own thing to begin with just to gauge how they work. Everyone works in different ways, and you don't want to start stepping on toes.
We will talk about the social media accounts and other logins in a bit, don't worry.