Jobs Description

President of the Chinese Society

This role, as huge and important as it seems, can be daunting at first. But in simplicity, what it requires most is the passion and enthusiasm to commit to the Chinese Society and her members.

Being in the leading positions in the society, the President and Vice-President both have responsibilities to bring the society towards the same direction. Setting the aims for the society and how the committee functions is the foremost consideration. Thereafter, the running of the society and the planning and execution of plans for specific events will bring them through the year. They work hand in hand but also divide the workload to complement each other in terms of the groups of people they liaise with. The President’s job greatly involves communication and networking with external connections like the Union, sponsors, Guests-of-Honours, honorary members of the society and other supportive public.

This job is definitely a stimulating and rewarding one, and requires a highly motivated individual who is ready to take up this challenge to do something different for the next year and inspire others.

Vice-President

A Vice-President should assist the President, and work closely with the

President in helping to make decision and in organizing things. To be able

to motivate the committee members to work as a team.

To be a good Vice-President you need to have good organizing skill, be able

to work as a team, be able to commit yourself and to be hard working;

lastly the most important is to be dedicated to make the Chinese Society

successful.

A Vice-President will need to help in the planning of the events.

Everything would not be as difficult as you will think. Just think of what

will you want to achieve for next year and do what you want to do.

Secretary

Who said that being Secretary is all about paperwork and nothing else? True, I am in charge of writing letters, typing out minutes of the meeting and invitations. But there is definitely more to that. I also write emails to the members alerting them of upcoming events as you all should know by now. I am proud to say that it is the highlight of my job as it is the outlet for my creativity. Unofficially, I am also the Public Relations Manager of ChinSoc. Apart from being the members' first point of contact, I also do networking with other societies and this comes into use whenever help from other societies is needed. Of course, we also have organising the events as a committee among other things. What can I say? I LOVE my job!

Treasurer

Chinese Society Treasurer's job description

What is my main role in Chinese Society? It is definitely to keep all

the accounts up-to-date and always be alert of the account's status.

You will need to prepare a rough budget before events .Of course, all

of the committee will have to sit down and put their heads together to

think of a way to increase fund.

But, this is not the main task, you have the power to allocate how much

to spent on each area. ANYTHING involving money you will be informed.

Isn't it great?

The experience gained from taking on this post will definitely be

worthwhile, not only will you increase your organizing skills but have

the great feeling of self achievement. You do not need to have previous

accounting knowledge. As long as you always keep track of what you are

doing, it is as simple as ABC.

Committee Members:

Welfare Officer

The Welfare Officer’s job is basically about communication with members of Chinese society. He is the link between the committee and the members and I think this link is important for both the society and the members. For the society, it is mainly to source for talents and volunteers within the society to help in events and also important in the marketing of events (=_=” in a way, u can say that it is to promote the events on a more personal scale to get them to come for them). For the members, I am in charge of organising “hall dinners” to let members get to know other members and also to bring them closer to the committee. I also help members with any sort of problems they meet (being the “welfare” officer) and voice out any opinions for them. In short, to bring members closer to the society is the most important job of welfare officer.

Editor

The main job of being the editor is to produce all the publications, yes ALL OF THEM. So far this year there has been two newsletters and two booklets (Fresh and CNY dinner), the biggest of all is the coming AGM booklet, which I am stressing over!!!!!

As with many things, you have to like what you do, so you must really enjoy spending time in preparing the publications, writing up articles or bugging others to write for you, arranging and decorating them to make them look as interesting as possible, well that’s the idea anyway! Other things you will have to do are print and distribute them to the members. The main requirement here is not previous experience in publishing/editing but motivation!

The greatest thing after long hours spent producing the publications is the sense of self achievement, not just from the publications but also from the events that you help organize.

Webmaster

As you know, the main responsibility of a webmaster is to maintain and update the website. If you think that's such a boring job......read further. Besides that, I am also very involved in the planning and organizing of events. As you'll be assigned to different various roles in several events; hence, you'll be exposed to all different aspect of planning and organizing events which can be very fun and exciting. For instance, I was in-charge of publicity and marketing for CNY and CCN, therefore I get to tap into the creative part of me by designing posters, invitation cards and also carry out a marketing plan to publicize this event not only to Chinsoc members but also to students of The University of Bristol. Furthermore, you get to meet all different kinds of people from all different races and traditions and all walks of life which I find most interesting.

Please direct any comments, suggestions, pictures (Chinese Society Related) and general enquires concerning the Bristol University Chinese Society Website to our resident: Webmaster.