Proposed Job Descriptions of Club Committee Members for adoption as By Laws of the Peninsula Canoe Club

8th June, 2010

  • The Chairman
  • Undertake overall responsibility for the interests and welfare of the Club by ensuring that the functions of the chairman and the executive are executed with diligence and integrity
  • Motivate and manage the Club Committee members
  • Ensure that the Club is managed and run in accordance with the Constitution of the Club
  • PCC’s representative at the WCCU
  • PCC’s representative at the ZSC
  • Correspondence with the paddlers through the club newsletter to generally promote the objectives of the club
  • Ensuring administrative continuity by committing due effort to identifying, mentoring and grooming your successor
  • The Vice Chairman
  • Undertake to support the Club and the office of the Chairman with diligence and integrity.
  • Backup/Alternate to the incumbent Chairman at meetings
  • Management of Special Projects undertaken by the Chairman
  • Ideally be groomed to ultimately serve as Chairman
  • Treasurer
  • Undertake to perform the functions of treasurer with diligence and integrity
  • Motivate and manage the club volunteers who perform functions in support of the overall Treasury portfolio
  • Responsibility for all operating income and expenditure of the club and preparation of accounts for committee meetings
  • Preparation and presentation of data for the approval of capital expenditure
  • Preparation and presentation of data for the approval of payment of creditors
  • Responsibility for depositing and accounting for income generated from membership fees, club races, fund raising events, development grants and the Bar and Galley
  • Preparation and presentation of an annual budget in support of the setting of Annual Membership Fees, at the Club’s AGM.
  • Preparation and presentation of the Club’s Annual Financial Statement with as much detail as possible, at the Club’s AGM.
  • Scrutiny of the justification for levies imposed by WCCU and ZSC
  • Ensuring administrative continuity by committing due effort to identifying, mentoring and grooming your successor
  • Correspondence with paddlers w.r.t. club fees, fund raising, capital expenditure and outstanding debts.
  • Secretary
  • Undertake to perform the duties of the Secretary with diligence and integrity
  • Motivate and manage the club volunteers who perform functions in support of the overall Secretarial portfolio
  • Responsibility for receiving and addressing all correspondence coming into the club
  • Taking of minutes at meetings of the Executive Committee and General Meetings
  • Circulation of the minutes of meetings to respective members
  • Preparation and timeous circulation of Notices and Agendas of Meetings
  • Ensuring that “Matters Arising” from any meeting are carried forward to subsequent meetings
  • Ensuring that “Dates, Times and Venues of subsequent meetings are agreed before the closure of meetings
  • Accurately recording of any changes to Club and circulating them to members
  • Assuming responsibility for the safe keeping of all records belonging to the club, including official documents, minutes of meetings and Club Rules and the Club Constitution.
  • Responsibility for the maintenance of the Club Membership database
  • Ensuring administrative continuity by committing due effort to identifying, mentoring and grooming your successor
  • Correspondence with paddlers w.r.t. General Meetings and registration procedures
  • Club Captain
  • Undertake to perform the duties of Club Captain with diligence and integrity
  • Motivate and manage the club volunteers who perform functions in support of the overall Club Captaincy portfolio
  • Responsibility for the training and performance of the club paddlers
  • Liaison with appointed coaches to coordinate training activities
  • Preparation of club representatives to major events
  • Ensuring administrative continuity by committing due effort to identifying, mentoring and grooming your successor
  • Correspondence with the paddlers through the club newsletter w.r.t. training and events

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