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OUTLINE OF RESPONSIBILITIES FOR SAMPLE LEADERSHIP TEAM POSITIONS

PRESIDENT: • Schedules & facilitates meetings• delegates responsibilities to other leadership team members and ensures they are completing them• Ensures that all necessary steps are taken to become and remain an organization on campus. • Develops the FRN chapter’s protocols, and acts as the main communicator with your point of contact at FRN

National.

VICE PRESIDENT: • Assumes responsibilities of other team members when they cannot be completed • Recruits applicants and facilitates voting for future leadership positions• Takes notes at meetings• Organizes FRN paperwork.

TREASURER: • Keeps track of organizational funds• Applies for funding from the university or grants from the national office• Brainstorms fundraising ideas and collaborates with the Event & PR Coordinator to develop fundraising

events and campaigns.

DINING HALL/RESTAURANT COORDINATOR: • Acts as the main point of contact with dining services, local restaurants, farms (wherever the donations are

coming from) • Ensures that the recoveries run smoothly and that all food safety procedures are followed. • Establishes and updates the recovery schedule in accordance with the food donor(s) and the FRN members • Works with the food donors and the Event & PR Coordinator to organize events with the food donor(s).

FRN National has put together some guidelines for how you may want to delegate responsibilities among your leadership team. These are simply our suggestions; please work within your leadership team to make sure that everyone has responsibilities they are equipped to take on. Work together to adjust roles as needed. Collaboration across positions is essential for a strong leadership team; support eachother at all times, offering advice and assistance as needed.

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PARTNER AGENCY COORDINATOR: • Acts as the main point of contact with the agencies that are accepting the food donations• Maintains a primary and a back up contact person at each of the partner agencies, • Ensures that partner agencies are aware of and in agreement with the recovery schedule, the items

donated, and the procedures followed. • Works with the Event & PR Coordinator to organize events at/to support the partner agency.

VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR: • Coordinates the students signed up for each recovery and makes sure that there is a solid number (3-5 for

one car 6-7 for 2 cars) of volunteers for each recovery run and that they show up on time. • Ensures that all volunteers are briefed in food safety, and that at least one leadership team member or

experienced volunteer is present at each recovery• Works with the list of volunteers who have signed up or assigns a different student organization to

be responsible for each recovery on a rotating schedule (e.g. the club soccer team does recoveries on Wednesdays).

• Ensures that the online food tracking form is filled out after each recovery

EVENT & PUBLIC RELATIONS COORDINATOR: • Organizes awareness events on campus, at partner agencies, or within other parts of the community• Works with the treasurer to organize fundraising events and campaigns• Works with the Partner Agency Coordinator to organize events with the partner agency • Works with the dining hall/restaurant coordinator to organize events with the food donors • Maintains the group’s facebook/twitter/other social media pages, writing articles about the chapter’s

success, taking pictures at every opportunity, etc.

**Please ensure that FRN National is sent pictures, media features, blogs and information about events your chapter has hosted and is planning on hosting in the future!