Committee Handbook 2015 - 16

RUSU RAG Committee Applications Handbook 2014/15

What Is RAG? RAG is dedicated to fundraising. It encourages students to get involved with their union and give back to their local, national and global community. We achieve this through events, challenges, raids and other FUNdraising activities.

RAG is first and foremost a student group, and that’s where YOU come in! We need organised, committed and enthusiastic team members to ensure that we achieve as much as possible through our events.

Why get involved?

RAG is a nationally recognised name, and is therefore something that looks fantastic on your CV. But, more importantly, it is a chance to work with like-minded students to give something back to your community. It is a chance to engage in lots of fun activities and meet new people while improving your job prospects and helping others. It also counts toward your RED award, as an added bonus!

What now?

Interested? Then get involved! You can apply for a committee position by requesting an application form from h.trott@reading.ac.uk or from RAG themselves. The deadline for the applications is the 19th April 2015. After the application process, a committee will be selected and the fun begins! To decide which role to apply for, do please see the following pages for role descriptions.

Committee Positions Chair Responsible for: 

Overseeing all activities that all committee members of RAG are doing and delegating tasks when necessary.

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Overseeing committee’s use of social media and responding to questions on the committee page.

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Attending weekly meeting with RUSU, in particular with the Community and Development Officer and Volunteer Coordinator. If necessary the Chair will make meetings with necessary people in RUSU.

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Acting as a spokesperson for RAG when necessary.

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Holding socials for the committee members and RAG Reps to keep members engaged and make RAG a sociable society.

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To recruit and hold meetings with the RAG Reps. The Chair will be responsible for getting RAG Reps involved in the events or promotional days that are running.

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The Chair will be reviewing any updates that arise in the RAG committee.

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Overseeing RAG activities and agreeing/ setting reasonable fundraising targets.

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Attending all required RUSU Training.

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Supporting RUSU’s mission and vision.

Secretary Responsible for: 

Publicising meeting dates and times.

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Charity liaison with the chosen charities for year.

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Working with other members of RAG to go through the chosen charity application over summer.

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Taking minutes and actions from all meetings and publishing them on the RAG Committee page.

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Keeping up to date on emails on the RAG account and putting emails in the appropriate folders.

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Room or stall booking if RAG wants to have a stand or organise an event.

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Writing a Weekly update to RUSU which should include minutes from meetings and actions that need to be acted on.

Treasurer Responsible for: 

Collecting all the tins from around the Student’s Union and holding a weekly tin counting session.

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Setting financial target for the year with the President.

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Managing grant and reserve account for RAG.

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Writing a weekly financial update to keep on top of the accounts.

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Liaising with SSH on external money going into the external account.

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Applying for extra funding if RAG needs to.

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The collection of all money relating to RAG and the counting of such money within one working day.

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Transferring any monies raised for charity (along with the Volunteering Coordinator) into the Union’s RAG account and reporting this to the committee.

Event coordinators x3 Responsible for: 

Organising RAG Raids in town and getting RAG Reading involved in Mega Raids.

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Organising RAG calendar of events with realistic completion aims, with at a term in advance.

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Completing risk assessments for any events planned.

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Work with SSH and Design and Communication on advertising for any events.

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Organising sponsorship events such as RULOST and Jailbreak.

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Organising RAG week.

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Weekly event report with all updates and plans for events.

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Liaising with necessary RUSU departments to make sure events are booked and are realistic.

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Completing feedback form before and after all events

SSH (Societies, Sports and Halls Coordinator) Responsible for: 

Being the main contact with sports, societies and halls to get them fundraising.

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Create a calendar of events from Sports, Societies and halls so that RAG knows all the events going on.

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Supporting Sports, Societies and Halls events with promotional material, help on the day or liaising with RUSU.

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Liaising with treasurer on money Sports, Societies or Halls raise.

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Updating the Sports, Societies and Halls league tables online and promote the results.

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Going through events forms in Student Activities.

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Publicising with Design and Communication for events and adding a RAG Stamp to any fundraising Sports, Societies and Halls do.

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Advertising RAG events to Sports, Societies and Halls.

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Weekly update to RAG Committee and RUSU.

Design and Communication Responsible for: 

Writing a weekly publicity report to RUSU and RAG Committee.

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Creating and implementing a social media strategy plan.

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Responsible for keeping the website updated.

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Creating artwork, promotional materials for events and RAG itself.

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Liaising with RUSU marketing on certain projects.

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Leading on the promotion of RAG and all events by using different avenues of promotion and responsible for the distribution of promotional materials.