The Secretary is responsible for planning and coordinating the team's events and apparel.  

Responsibilities:

Run Apparel

• Find and create custom Launch apparel for team members
  • Polos
  • Jackets
  • Patches
  • T-shirts
  • Other apparel (driven by team demand)
• Ensure apparel meets teams standards
  • Correct colors
  • Correct sizes
  • Good material
• Document apparel choices for year to year consistency
• Work with the Treasurer to ensure people pay for apparel 
• Distribute apparel to correct members  

Recruitment

• • Two-three interest meetings before the semester starts (in-person and zoom)
    • Advertise EVERYWHERE online eg. Reddit, Discord server, Instagram, etc. (work with social media director on this) 
    • Talk about general club commitment, sub-teams, refer people to this link: http://launch.rit.edu/join-us.html
    • Have people sign up on a google form so we get their email
      • Send out an email blast using MailChimp
    • Send out a blast about the interest meetings on CampusGroup as well
    • Recording from last year's interest meeting
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    • Also talk about what each sub-team will be working on in that school year **You need to know this**
  • Put up posters around campus for recruitment **most effective
  • Make sure to sign up for club faire fall semester
  • Regularly check the launch email because we get a lot of interested students emailing us versus joining Slack
  • At the first meeting of the semester, send out a google form to collect data so we know what recruitment method is best/team statistics to report to RIT and IREC. Example: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FEVT1TaDOmjImJ0hXBh5Rg-upyfKYRBx8wWztI1zgq0/edit?usp=sharing
  • Every week at general, make an announcement to have newcomers come talk to you. This helps a lot with member retention and onboarding, because some members may want to try out different teams
    • Your job is to give a brief explanation of what each team does and what they are working on. Then, you send them to the leads of the teams they are interested in

Events

• • Gauge interest at general meeting
  • Create this spreadsheet that includes time, emergency contact, schedule, rides etc.: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_2x7sUO0UZowwVMvVAkmB-CXyXQ_Ns6F4u-e5OwPs7E/edit?usp=sharing
  • Spreadsheet for Launch day: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wib8dXPIgYjl4orxxrz8uGqqMNv6rpc88dnfF4jb79Q/edit?usp=sharing

ImagineRIT

• • Submit a proposal - upload images, write a detailed description of the team and what every sub-team is doing
  • Organize a schedule for ImagineRIT
  • Have one person there for recruitment + make an interest form to join our mailing list
    • Send out an email blast after ImagineRIT and again next semester
  • Organize/clean up before and after the event

Requirements:

• Elected position 
• Preferably no overlap in e-board positions

Secretares:

Current Secretary:

• Sophia Commisso & Katie Beck

Past Secretaries:

• Alexis Smith
• Mary Dertinger