To all those interested in becoming part of BMES Officer core for 2010-2011:
Here's the officer application!
Please download, fill it out and send it back to us at calbmes(at)gmail.com by 5pm Monday, 2/22.
Elections will be held on that following Friday, the 26th, starting at 6pm at Stanley.
Please show up on time as we will be heading in together, before Stanley locks for the weekend. (If you have an issue with that time and will be late or unable to attend, please notify us ahead of time and we will work something out.)
Application due:
5pm; 2/22/10
Elections:
6pm; 2/26/10
Stanley front steps
2010-2011 Officer Positions:
President | Internal Vice President | External Vice President | Secretary |
Treasurer | Academic Chair | Corporate Chair | Social Chair | Outreach Chair | Publicity
Chair | Fundraising Chair | Webmaster | Historian
President: The President will be responsible for
overseeing general club operations, writing agendas for the weekly
officer
meetings, and leading the officer meetings.
Internal VP: The Internal VP will serve as the backup
“point person” for events, the liaison between BMES and the BioE
department staff, and the person supporting the President in keeping
people on
track. In addition, the IVP will be the point person for Fall Reception.
External VP: The External VP will oversee BMES’
intersocietal relations, attending meetings for collaborative efforts
(such as
intersocietal events and EJC meetings) and making sure that all clubs
involved
are on the same page.
Secretary: The Secretary will take minutes at all
officer meetings and compile a more comprehensible summary of weekly
tasks for
other officers. In addition, the Secretary will handle the e-mail
listserv,
informing general members of upcoming BMES events and other information.
Treasurer: The Treasurer will compile the annual
budget, handle all monetary reimbursements to club members, and manage
the BMES
funds provided by EJC and the BioE Department.
Fundraising Chair: The Fundraising Chair will
organize all fundraising activities
(such as T-shirt sales) and events (such as barbecues). This person will
ideally brainstorm to come up with new, creative ways of raising funds
for the
club, and will oversee a Fundraising Committee.
Social Chair: The
Social Chair will plan social events for the club, which will include
both
intra- and inter-club events, and which will foster good will and
collaboration
among BMES members.
Outreach Chair: The Outreach Chair will manage BMES’
community service and outreach activities, which will chiefly include
BEAM
(ideally, this person will help run the BEAM de-cal) as well as events
like the
Berkeley Project and Engineering 4
Kids
Day (E4K).
Academic Chair: The Academic Chair will organize
academic-related events, which
will include events pertaining to grad/med school, Professor Brunches,
lab
tours, and grad/undergrad student mixers. This person will oversee an
Academic
Committee to help plan and implement these events.
Corporate Chair: The Corporate Chair will
organize professional events such as
career panels, resume workshops, and company infosessions, and will work
with
BioEHS to plan events under the “BioTech Industry Profiling”
(BioTIP) Committee. This person will oversee a Corporate Committee to
help plan
and implement these events.
Publicity
Chair: The Publicity Chair will be responsible for building up student interest for club events, which is
normally
accomplished by such methods as creating and posting fliers around
campus,
making in-class announcements, and creating Facebook events. This person
will
oversee a Publicity Committee to help with these activities.
Webmaster: The role of Webmaster will include keeping the BMES
website maintained and updated with new events and information, as well
as
pioneering new methods to utilize the internet as a resource for our
members.
Historian:
The Historian will be responsible for taking lots of pictures at club events and organizing the photo archive
in a
logical way. The Historian would also compile a brief report on each
BMES event
for future reference.
