Student Leadership

[kjolana1124]

So I was thinking. There's so many team's out there, and no two run the same. Because of this, I have a few questions for you all:

What's the student management structure of your team? How is it set up? How is it decided what students have these roles? Do you even call it a management team?

What sort of jobs do these people have? Do they each run a subteam? Do they handle all aspects of team running?

How much of a role do mentors play in assisting this management team? How many of the management decisions go through mentors first?

1124, for the past three or four years now, has had a five person management team. This team consists of a president, VP, community liaison, secretary, and treasurer. All of these are student-elected positions. Students who wish to run for any of these rolls must be nominated, prepare a speech, then have debates as well as a Q & A session. The new management team members are then announced at the team's end of year dinner. This year, our management team consists of four seniors and one junior (myself).

Each role, obviously, has a very different job description. For sake of ease:

Secretary: Keeps attendance, records of all forms, and updates the website with information and notes for future events
Treasurer: Parts list, taxes, handles the cash box. I must admit I don't know a terrible amount about this role
Community Liaison (Me!): Basically in charge of EVERYTHING on the team that deals with no one on the team. Any and all grants, fundraisers, demos, spirit, and other events have to run through them first. They're normally the second to speak at events, next to the president.
Vice President: In the event that the president gets hit by a rock, they're in charge. In most cases, it's up to the VP to keep order and help pass messages to the rest of the team.
President: Everything and anything. They have to plan meetings, talk to the school, make sure everything is on top of everything; no one detail passes by him. He's normally the first to talk for the team at public events.

Mentor role varies a lot. The management team, in many cases, will try and have periodic conference calls to plan for upcoming events. There's also a management team email group for transferring information and/or documents of interest. In both cases, our coach is attached and/or he's still on the phone.

This is just my two sense, I can't wait to here other people's opinions