Upcoming vacancies on the SCGRG committee

The following roles will be available from September this year. Elections to the Committee will be held at the Annual General Meeting. Nominations for Committee membership will be accepted up to the beginning of the AGM (August 24^th). Nominations must be in writing and include the names of the proposer and seconder.

Vacancies:
Dissertation Prize Officer (1 year) – see role description below

RGS-IBG SCGRG Role Description 2020

Month	Task	Action	Contact	Deadline	Status
January
February
March
April	In response to RHED (RGS-IBG), update call for nominations for dissertation award	Update call for nominations text (with deadline) and provide for RHED	RHED
Confirm continuation of Social & Cultural Geography subscription arrangement with Taylor Francis	Taylor Francis
May	Encourage submissions	Circulate call for nominations via membership list and appropriate mailing lists and social media	Membership secretary
Crit-geog-forum and other geography mailing lists; Web Officer; Social Media Officer
June
July	Coordinate assessment of submissions	Circulate sign-up for judging rounds to members
Collate submission entries and organise in Dropbox folder; collate contact details for entries
Send submissions & evaluation matrix to prize panel members, with target deadlines for assessing submissions (2 rounds)	Prize panel members (expected to be all committee members)
August	Agree on award of prize (winner and runner-up)	With Secretary and Chair	Before AGM
Report to SCGRG AGM: number of entries, submitting institutions, prize winner and runner-up, and any other commendations	Chair
September	Award prize	Inform successful individual and all submitting departments of outcome
Put prize winner in touch with RGS-IBG and Taylor Francis to receive prize	Treasurer Taylor Francis
Update website and tweet news; do profile of winner and runner-up for website (see previous examples); send link to RGS-IBG for information.	Web officer
October
November
December

Conference Officer (1 year) – see role description below

RGS-IBG SCGRG Role Description 2020 – Conference Officer

Month	Task	Action	Contact	Deadline	Status
January	Decide on SCGRG sponsored sessions	Prepare and disseminate submitted expressions of interest for SCGRG sponsored sessions to committee members in a timely fashion for decision re sponsored sessions in accordance with RGS guidance	SCGRG committee
Communicate outcome with sessions proposers in a timely fashion	Contacts for EOIs
February	Liaise with session convenors	Liaise with session convenors if required	Session convenors of SCGRG sponsored sessions
March	Liaise with session convenors	Liaise with session convenors if required	Session convenors of SCGRG sponsored sessions
April	Inform RGS of sponsored sessions upon request		RGS
May	Check conference timetable	Check conference timetable for clashes	RGS
Session convenors of SCGRG sponsored sessions
June	Publicise SCGRG sponsored sessions	Liaise with session convenors, Web Officer, and Social Media officer	Session convenors of SCGRG sponsored sessions
Web Officer
Social Media Officer
July
August
September
October
November	Prepare call for SCGRG sponsored sessions for the RGS Annual Conference	Await announcement re RGS Annual Conference for following August. Discuss call for sponsored sessions with other officers and agree timeline (including meeting to decide . Prepare call for sponsored sessions based on agreed timeframe and instruction from RGS.	RGS, Chair, Secretary
December	Disseminate call for sponsored sessions.		CRITGEOG, Web Officer; Social Media Officer, SCGRG list.

Website & Social Media Officer (1 year)

Update the SCGRG website on a regular basis and share information via Twitter.

For more information on this role, please contact tracy.hayes@cumbria.ac.uk

Postgraduate Representative (1 year)

Information to be added.