The composition of the current steering committee is as follows:
Roles
Formed by the chair, the vice-chair and the secretary. Responsible for ensuring the committee functions smoothly and achieves its goals.
- Chair : leads meetings, sets agendas, moderates discussions and delegates tasks to volunteer members. It represents the LAARD community in any official meetings or interviews. They are also responsible for having an overview of the various initiatives by working closely with the communication and engagement teams. The chair allows for discussion around long-term topics, and needs to be forward thinking on this end.
- Vice-Chair/Treasurer: Will support the Chair and fill in when the Chair is not available. Will also identify grant opportunities and manage any funds available. Distribution of work can be discussed between the Chair and Vice-Chair.
- Secretary: Takes meeting minutes, sends them out when they are ready, makes sure that assignments are noted. Organisational responsibilities (i.e. keeping google docs in order, annotating the minutes with required links, possibly doing same for the agenda ahead of time).
The communications team is responsible for the outreach of the community, by tweeting, emailing as well as updating the website. Social media officers will announce new initiatives, conferences, papers and jobs that are relevant for the LAARD community.
The engagement team is responsible for coming up with new initiatives (projects, summer schools, outreach activities, etc.) and propose them to the community. They will also oversee ongoing initiatives and provide support for them to reach their goals. They will ensure that the initiative is known in the community, as well as outside the community together with the media team. As well as suggesting potential funding sources for the initiative, by engaging with the treasurer.
