SPRING COMMITTEE CHAIR POSITIONS
Each year, several Dance Marathon chair positions open up prior to the Fall semester to assist with summer duties. The remaining, unlisted positions will go live in the Fall semester. Contact The Co-Executives or the respective Director with any specific questions. All positions utilize the same application which can be downloaded below.
OPEN CHAIR POSITIONS
PUBLIC RELATIONS & MARKETING COMMITTEE | Graphic Design Chair (1)
Members who show interest and possess skills related to graphic design and art will work on creating various graphics and designs throughout the year. Graphics and designs will be used on various print and digital platforms for both internal and external communication. Public Relations & Marketing is responsible for creating graphics for all other committees and for anything DM related. Members will also brainstorm and design apparel, including the Big Event shirt design. Members may also assist with updating the website’s layout.
Valuable Skills & Qualities
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Experience with Adobe
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Experience with Canva
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The ability to work on teams and individually
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Effective design skills
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Creative insight
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Time management skills
FAMILY RELATIONS COMMITTEE | Communication Chair (5)
This year we are looking to fill five communication chair positions. Each communication chair will be assigned certain miracle families to communicate with throughout the year. These conversations facilitate trust with the families and allow information between the director and committee to be reinforced. Depending on the family’s preferences, chairs may communicate weekly, biweekly, monthly, etc. and will need to be comfortable with making phone calls and writing emails. Chairs can expect an extra meeting with the FR Director each week in addition to the regular committee meetings. Confidential information may be shared with the chair, which is then relayed to the director; all information relayed is expected to be handled appropriately and maturely. Family Relations committee experience is recommended, but not required.
FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE | Food Night Chair (1)
This chair will be asked to start working with the Fundraising Director right away in the spring & summer. This chair will work closely with the director to brainstorm new fundraising ideas for the upcoming year. This chair will be in charge of helping the director plan canning routes and organize them throughout the summer. Other responsibilities involve contacting local businesses through phone or email, as well as organizing food nights throughout the year. Lastly, during the school year, this chair will be delegating tasks for committee members to call businesses for food nights and other donations. Overall, looking for someone committed to bringing creativity, leadership, & FUN to our fundraising team.
FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE | Events Chair (1)
This chair will be asked to start working with the Fundraising Director right away in the spring & summer. This chair will work closely with the director to brainstorm new fundraising ideas for the upcoming year. This chair will be in charge of helping the director plan canning routes and organize them throughout the summer. Other responsibilities involve contacting local businesses through phone or email, as well as organizing food nights throughout the year. Lastly, during the school year, this chair will be delegating tasks for committee members to call businesses for food nights and other donations. Overall, looking for someone committed to bringing creativity, leadership, & FUN to our fundraising team.
MORALE COMMITTEE | Color War Chair (1)
This chair will be responsible for all the color war points throughout the year. This will include maintaining a point system and communicating with the morale director on point systems for different events. They will also be responsible for communication with the morale captains and morale director on what the prize will be for the winning color war team.
MORALE COMMITTEE | Dancer and Morale Relations Chair (1)
This chair will be responsible for all communication within morale and dancers. This person will create templates for morale captains to send out to dancers. This person will also have the responsibility of taking notes during morale meetings, keeping morale captains up to date on responsibilities, and creating video ideas and video dates for the morale theme hour videos. This person will also work with the morale captain to coordinate monthly bonding for morale captains.
MORALE COMMITTEE | Recruitment and Fundraising Chair (1)
This chair will be responsible for maintaining good recruitment numbers as well as coming up with new, fun recruitment and fundraising ideas. This will include food-related, sport-related, and game-related ideas. This person will work alongside the morale director as well as the morale captains to divide up recruitment and fundraising events into each color war group as well as helping groups come up with recruitment ideas themselves.
ENTERTAINMENT & LOGISTICS COMMITTEE | Logistics Chair (1)
As the Logistics Chair, you will be responsible for meeting with and keeping up relations with different businesses. When meeting with these businesses, you will be selling Dance Marathon and seeing how they could partner with us for the Big Event. You will be working closely with the Entertainment & Logistics Director to find and contact these businesses. Your main responsibility at the Big Event will be making sure the entertainment has arrived and is the correct place. As logistics chair, you will also be responsible for contacting and organizing the volunteers that help out at the Big Event. You will be an administrator to a website that will be open for family and friends to sign up and volunteer. You will be working closely with the Entertainment & Logistics Director to coordinate where we will need volunteers and how many we will need at each station. As the Logistics Chair, you will need to be very organized while working with these details. Since you will be working closely with the director, you will be the director's right hand and will be trusted with important responsibilities. In addition, be prepared to take on additional responsibilities that are relevant to the Entertainment and Logistics Committee as a whole.
ENTERTAINMENT & LOGISTICS COMMITTEE | Catering Chair (1)
As the Catering Chair, you will be responsible for meeting with and keeping up relations with different food businesses. When meeting with these businesses, you will be selling Dance Marathon and seeing how they could partner with us for the Big Event. You will be working closely with the Entertainment & Logistics Director to find and contact these businesses. Your main responsibility at the Big Event will be making sure the food has arrived and is in the correct place. As the Catering Chair, you will need well-rounded organizational and professional communication skills, both with businesses and committee members. You will also need problem-solving skills when consulting donations from businesses. In addition, be prepared to take on additional responsibilities that are relevant to the Entertainment and Logistics Committee as a whole.