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:: delegation officers ::
President
Vice President
Parliamentarian
Treasurer
Sgt. at Arms
Chaplain
Secretary
Executive Assistant
DELEGATION
OFFICER JOB DESCRIPTIONS
All officers' responsibilities include:
1. Observing the delegation code of conduct.
2. Helping to enforce decorum and the code of conduct.
3. Executing their office
to the best of their abilities.
4. Attending ALL delegation, officer and parent meetings and all other delegation
events.
5. Make Youth and Government a first and foremost extracurricular priority.
6. Act as a representative of the delegation at statewide events.
7. Responsible for chairing Spring Delegation Development and any other delegated
committees and presenting results for delegation approval.
8. Help statewide candidates at all conferences.
9. Participating in the annual support campaign.
10. Get the Culver-Palms Family YMCA's approval for all Y&G business/publicity/print
material.
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PRESIDENT
Reports to: YMCA Program Director
(Lead Advisor)
Directly supervises: Vice President, Parliamentarian, and Executive Assistant
The President must:
1. Preside over delegation meetings and officer meetings.
2. Develop agendas for meetings.
3. Represent Youth & Government (Y&G) at program committee meetings.
4. Keep decorum with officers at all delegation and officer meetings.
5. Set and explain delegation goals for the year.
6. Act as a liaison between delegates, officers, and advisors.
7. Run an Officer Meeting every week.
8. Run all meetings in Parliamentary Procedure.
9. Meet with the Program Director (Delegation Lead Advisor) weekly.
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VICE PRESIDENT
Reports to: Delegation President/Program
Director (Lead Advisor)
Directly supervises: Secretary and Treasurer
The Vice President must:
1. Assist Delegation Lead Advisor with statewide related paperwork and
required forms.
2. Correspond monthly with all Westside delegations.
3. Coordinate candidates to speak to our delegation and our candidates
to speak to other delegations.
4. Act as a liaison between the program and the community for recruitment
purposes.
5. Coordinate the Los Angeles YMCA Cluster events, publish list of LA
Cluster events to all LA Cluster delegations along with the LA Cluster mailing
list.
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PARLIAMENTARIAN
Reports to: Delegation President
Directly supervises: Sergeant at Arms and Chaplain
The Parliamentarian must:
1. Act as an authority on parliamentary procedures before election and
organize at least three Parliamentary Procedure/Court workshops containing
technical terms, sample bill debates, trials, etc.
2. Create as many workshops as needed to assure hint/herself that each
delegation member is secure with his/her role.
3. Coordinate and carry out Role Whips and whip groups.
4. Coordinate the development of delegation bills.
5. Describe three conferences and the different roles at Sacramento to
the delegation.
6. Preside over meetings in the absence of both the President and the
Vice President.
7. Be in charge of coordinating speakers for delegation meetings (non-Y&G
and Y&G).
8. Make Parliamentary Procedure/Court rules and regulations sheets.
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TREASURER
Reports to: President/Program Director
(Lead Advisor)
The Treasurer must:
1. Coordinate all delegation fund-raisers.
2. Ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to participate in fund
raising.
3. Write a letter to all delegates' parents explaining the importance
of both individual and delegation fund-raisers (include a list of upcoming
monthly/quarterly fund-raisers).
4. Develop a yearly plan of Y&G fund-raisers to be published in September.
5. Help lead advisor with payments and calls.
6. Send out payment reminders two weeks before payments are due.
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SERGEANT AT
ARMS
Reports to: Parliamentarian
The Sergeant At Arms must:
1. Keep decorum with
the delegates.
2. Explain the code of conduct and the expectations relating
to it (reminders at meetings prior to all conferences).
3. Enforce the code of conduct (delegation and state).
4. Enforce all curfews.
5. Explain how we should act towards visiting delegates/statewide candidates.
6. Call up delegates who don't attend meetings (with Secretary).
7. Perform head counts (with Secretary).
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CHAPLAIN
Reports to: Parliamentarian>
The Chaplain must:
1. Keep unity within the delegation.
2. Think of exciting things for the delegation to do.
3. Coordinate group builders once a month (minimum).
4. Do weekly invocations and benedictions.
5. Find ideas for invocations and benedictions and officer meetings (from
the suggestion box).
6. Responsible for ice breakers at LA YMCA Cluster Meetings, etc.
7. Ensure all delegation activities are executed in good spirit and everyone
obeys the YMCA code of conduct.
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SECRETARY
Reports to: Vice President
The Secretary must:
1. Take notes/minutes at each meeting and have them available to all
delegates upon request.
2. Keep track of attendance (roll call) and give list to Sergeant At
Arms and makes phone calls to delegates who didn't attend the meeting(s) (with
Sergeant At Arms).
3. Be responsible for agendas.
4. Make and publish rosters as updated.
5. Do head counts (with Sergeant At Arms).
6. Assist with all of the written aspects of the delegation (including
delegation and state forms with Vice President).
7. Write a monthly newsletter about our delegation (publicize the events
of the delegation), include the Vice President's notes about other delegations.
8. Send out invitations to all parents for the parents' meeting.
9. Organize and oversee big brother/big sister program.
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EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
Reports to: Delegation President
The Executive Assistant must:
1. Coordinate the slide show and other mementos of Y&G.
2. Keep track of all delegation supplies and equipment at conferences.
3. Understand and/or learn to use all delegation equipment by the first conference.
4. Assist other officers as needed.
5. Help statewide candidates before conferences.
6. Organize campaign poster painting and other candidate promotional materials
before conferences.
7. Assist Treasurer in set up and breakdown of fund-raisers.
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