Committee Roles with NSWAGTC

NSWAGTC Committee Member Roles: ( established 2010)

Our Association is managed by an elected committee of members, who are voted in at the Annual General Meeting. The success of the association depends on the committee being representatve of all our members, and being able to provide relevant and approrpiate activities to support our members.

You might be the person we need - someone who is keen, interested in advocating for gifted children and families and from anywhere across NSW. We now are able to meet virtually - thus enabling our regional members ot be regularly involved in committee meetings and discussions. We are also able to nominate for short periods of time members to work on specific projects or tasks. This can be decided at the AGM, or during any year of operation.

Have you thought about taking on a role? At present, the structure of our committee includes these roles.

President:

·         Connect with other agencies: state, local, etc

·         Represent association at events (or arrange a substitute)

·         Develop policy or documents

·         Liaise with executive officer and staff if needed

·         Contribute to website

·         Support all other committee members in their roles – work on planning and developing programs for all stakeholders

·         Oversee our activity- monitoring our actions aligned with our goals

·         Respond to emails/phone calls/forum postings

          Advocate at range of levels including education, and funding bodies.

Secretary:

·         Keep minutes of all meetings and send to committee members one week after meetings

·         Send out action task list after meetings; review before next meeting

·         Finalise any communication

·         Respond to postings/emails

·         Write to possible partner groups – prepare form letter for this

·         Receive and report nominations to committee; correspondence; requests from members or other groups

Treasurer Role:

·         Ensure monthly records are up to date

·         Analyse financial officer reports from last 6 weeks – report on position

·         Ensure all signatories for bank account/credit card etc are current

·         Plan with finance officer to establish a routine and pattern for working

·         Prepare annual budget for association; monitor its progress over the year

Grants Officer:

·         Seek regular appropriate grants to apply for that support planned program of events or activity – one for a children activity; one for support in office

·         Prepare list of possible grants available to us for committee approval in the future

·         Respond to  emails/forum posting.

Teacher Support Officer:

·         Prepare overview of plan for next 12 months- target audience, ideas for ways of providing support, areas where help will be needed, possible aims of the role.

·         Liaise with other education groups/represent association

·         Survey need in various sectors

·         Respond to phonecalls/emails/forum postings that are relevant

·         Review education programs – critique presenters/programs/new texts

Parent Support Officer:

·         Bring feedback to meetings of parent need and response to events

·         Liaise with events manager to provide relevant activities

·         Contribute to relevant forums and blogs on website

·         Communicate with community health and other agencies where parents needing help might go first

·         Work with teacher support for activities that offer support to both groups