Leadership

Role Descriptions

• President & Vice-President

  These position have the most responsibility within the group. The President are Vice-President is responsible for the following things: overseeing and mentoring all other officers; participating in the leadership of all meetings; calling meetings; cancelling meetings; overseeing and organizing all events; voting in the removal of other officers; mentoring other officers in their duties; making sure all the events and positions of the chapter are in accordance with AI USA; delineating tasks to other officers and members of the group, creating pamphlets and flyers for all events, and working with other clubs and organizations.

  This position is meant for the person/people with the most relevant experience with Amnesty International or a related club or organization. This person should be organized, fair, and have a deep understanding of human rights abuses, and the positions that Amnesty International USA takes on human rights issues.

• Treasurer

  This person will be responsible for working with the co-funding board, student accounts, and student activities; direct planning for the budget each year; keeping track of money spent and money earned; all paper work related to events and fundraising for the group, i.e. requesting spontaneous funding, ordering items for fundraisers; sending forms to charities. This position will be mentored by the group leaders and/or the previous executive administrator if that person will no longer be attaining that position. When leaving this position it is required that you mentor the next treasurer during the last event in which you partake.

• Public Relations Coordinator

  This person is responsible for making all Amnesty International events on campus as visible as possible. This person will be responsible for the following; alerting all media outlets, filling out appropriate forms to alert student activities about upcoming events, help with designing flyers and posters for upcoming events, possibly working with other clubs and organizations.

• Communications Officer

  This person will be in charge of creating and maintaining the relevant social media pages (such as Facebook), website, and maintain the relevant e-mail accounts.

• Secretary

  This person is responsible for note-taking during meetings, logging members, e-mails, helping with events (sitting at tables, set-up, handing out flyers, etc.)

• Events Coordinator

  This person is responsible for the planning, coordinating, and scheduling of events. This includes booking rooms and making sure that contracts are signed.

• Urgent Action Coordinator

  This person is responsible for receiving all current urgent actions from Amnesty International USA and working with other officers to decide which cases the group will focus on.