The Secretary is part of the Executive Board, and as such is needed to keep the team expanding and support all team members. Their role is primarily focused on 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
    • 
    • 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

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

Other Things to Know:

Previous experience with Merchandise:

Check the /wiki/spaces/ritlaunch/pages/59214698 page for a complete and thorough summary. The main points are for non-jacket merchandise email Mark Callari at mcallari@bsnsports.com saying you are with RIT Launch Initiative and want to open up the previous shop. There have been past issues communicating through RIT email, use a personal email. He will most likely only want the store open for a week so make sure to advertise that. Screen printed items and embroidered items will need a minimum buy amount (previously 12). Send out a Google form (email, name, jacket style (men's/women's), size, embroidered name) about jacket interest when the apparel shop goes live. After about a week close the form and email Rebecca Hetherington at rebecca@instantmonogramming.com saying you are with Launch Initiative and would like a quote for roughly X number of jackets using the previous setup. We won't know the jacket price until we get a quote. Once we have a price collect payment and send Rebecca a spreadsheet with the jacket information from those who payed.