Freshers' Week Coordinator.
Election: 1st Easter.
Prerequisites: Manifesto.
Common Room: JHJCR.
Point of Contact: JJCR President.
Responsibilities: Organises Freshers' Week in October. Duties range from organising, writing and sending out all the pre-arrival literature, creating the Freshers' video, organising events and activities throughout the week, decorating College, liaising with College to arrange room booking and catering, welcoming the new intake on Freshers' Sunday (or in the case of international students, the week before), ensuring that Freshers receive advice from all the relevant authorities (health and safety, medical, tutors, etc), guiding Freshers through their first fortnight of College life, being a shoulder to cry on, generally being cheery, confident and at hand to sort out all the little problems that beset you on arrival in a strange place.
Average workload*: Don't ask. A full time job from mid-August until mid-October; and you should still be around for a while after that.
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9 Freshers' Week Reps.
Election: 1st Easter.
Prerequisites: At least two male, two female. Manifesto.
Common Room: JHJCR.
Point of Contact: JJCR President.
Responsibilities: As above for the Coordinator, as he/she/he & she directs. It'll need all of you!
Average workload*: Full time job from mid-August until mid-September, with bursts of activity at other times.
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Interviewee and Open Day Rep Coordinator.
Election: 2nd Michaelmas.
Prerequisites: Manifesto.
Common Room: JHJCR.
Point of Contact: JJCR President.
Responsibilities: Organises the Open Days during the Easter vacation. Duties range from organising pre-arrival literature, organising events and activities, liaising with College to arrange room bookings, catering, etc, decorating College, welcoming the prospective Johnians to Durham, looking after them and being at hand to answer queries during their stay, and being a good advertisement for John's. Similar duties apply with respect to interviewees, and for those requesting guided tours or similar of John's during term time.
Average workload*: 5 hours per week during Epiphany and early Easter terms, 1 week over Easter.
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6 Interviewee and Open Day Reps.
Election: 2nd Michaelmas.
Prerequisites: At least one male, one female.
Common Room: JHJCR.
Point of Contact: JJCR President.
Responsibilities: As for the Interviewee and Open Day Coordinator, above.
Average workload*: 3-5 hours per week during Epiphany and early Easter terms, 1 week over Easter.
Position introduced:?. Revised:?.
* All workload averages are estimates; many posts require work at irregular intervals, so these averages are based on the amount of work needed across a ten week term.
^ These posts require levels of work varying from year to year, therefore causing the amount of time needed to fluctuate.
ELW 1/9/2009; AO 25/11/2009.