Is there anything you can't do?
"I can't fail the President. Not Ever."
As vice-president, your official duties are listed in ยง16.2 of the constitution: https://www.ucc.asn.au/infobase/policies/constitution.pdf
As proposed under the 2014 Committee KPI Document:
- oversee the organisation of major UCC events including the UCC Camp, Quiz Night, Anniversary Dinner and Charity Vigil
- undertake a major project for the benefit of the club which has been approved by the committee
- manage the operation of the UCC Door Group
Unofficially, you should do some additional duties:
- Keeping the President sane
- Try and work with the President where ever possible, but present an objective or alternative opinion where you think it's necessary
- The role is less visionary than the President, but still try and make some things you are interested in happen
- As VP and less of an authority figure, it may be a bit easier to help calm things down whenever members are upset with committee
- Making sure other committee members are doing their job, and picking up the slack where necessary
This includes periodically auditing the Treasurer's work - no matter how good they are, mistakes do happen
- As an exec member you are one of the few people with easy access to club funds; you should help make purchases
- Or make sure reimbursements are done quickly for others who buy things on behalf of the club
- As an exec member you are one of the few people with easy access to club funds; you should help make purchases
- You should get the first chance at doing the minutes if the Secretary is away.
- Discourage the President from doing the minutes, as their job is to be the chair
- If you hate doing minutes let the Fresher Rep or an OCM do it.
Although there are 3 OCMs to do general tasks, not everyone will be helpful; if in doubt act like an extra OCM
Forward stuff from committee-only@ to committee@
- No really. Committee is great at forgetting that other members want to have input too, so help everyone out by making things public where possible
Similarly, make sure the Facebook group is not forgotten
- A lot of the extra communication may seem pointless. But it is important to do; it shows that the club cares about its members. You might not get any responses to an email, but that doesn't mean no one will have cared about it.
- Learn how things work, fix things, and generally be helpful