Post by pinkkittywinks on Nov 1, 2015 13:32:46 GMT
Sadly we will be losing some of our beloved committee this year BUT this gives YOU the opportunity to join the committee and be part of PonyCon!
UK PonyCon will recruit four temporary staff this year for the 2016 committee.
How do I apply?....... please read carefully now! (pkw will know if you have not)
UK PonyCon will recruit a number of temporary staff to serve for 1 year (from November 2015-November 2016). These staff will be recruited for specific roles that may change from year to year. Roles will be advertised describing the responsibilities and the required attributes for the job.
Anyone can apply to be a member of temporary staff and staff selections will be made by the Committee Staff, or where deemed appropriate, by public vote.
Prospective Candidates should submit a short CV and personal statement describing why they believe they are able to fulfil the role.
Prospective Committee members must be over 18 years of age with no previous criminal convictions (excluding traffic violations) and have attended at least one UK PonyCon. Prospective Committee members may be required to provide character references. In the interests of flexibility; people will selected on the basis of the range of their skills and experience, their reliability and level of commitment to PonyCon. This means you may be given the job we feel you would be most suited too, and this might not be the role you apply for.
Applicants may apply for one position only.
ALL APPLICATIONS WILL REMAIN PRIVATE; please do not post here, via public media or any other forum that you have made an application, all applications will be dealt with in the strictest confidence and prospective candidates will not be revealed until AFTER the application deadline has passed.
Here is a full list of the positions that are available:
Operations Assistant
A new role for 2016: you will be a full committee member working closely with the treasurer and chair. Duties will be varied and will include, but won’t be limited to:
Managing the webstore
Planning front desk entry
Monitoring ticket sales
Liaising with the venue and vendors
This role will involve handling some finances – you don’t need to be a maths genius but you must be able to count and willing to check your work!
This Operations Assistant will be busy throughout the convention year and on the weekend itself.
We ask you to be online regularly - best daily - to check in on the forum/committee room and take part in discussions there.
You also will be asked to respond to emails in our PonyCon email account (not daily, but on a regular base too).
Fundraising Assistant
As Fundraising Assistant you will be a full member of the UK PonyCon committee and you will assist the Chair with the following:
Help raise funds for UK PonyCon
Buy our Raffle Prizes
Collect the items for the Grand Charity Auction
You may be required to sell items through the convention eBay account and post out any sold items or prizes that need to go out in advance of the convention.
With PonyCon fundraising, the majority of the work is done in the months running up to the convention: no funds = no convention! You will be asked to assist on the main day with more general roles too, such as helping to set up, sell merchandise or raffle tickets, run easy events and maybe more.
We ask you to be online regularly - best daily - to check in on the forum/committee room and take part in discussions there.
You also will be asked to respond to emails in our PonyCon email account (not daily, but on a regular base too).
Events Assistant
As Events Assistant you will be a full member of the UK PonyCon committee and you will assist the Chair/Events-Coordinator with the following:
Run events on the day
Think of new and exciting events for us
Organise everything that is needed for running our events
Prepare requirements for volunteers and equipment
Help communicate our events beforehand online
Write descriptions of events/games
Organise Panels and look after our panelists
This job is very busy on the day! So be prepared you will spend a lot of your time running around like Chicken Pinkie Pie!
We ask you to be online regularly - best daily - to check in on the forum/committee room and take part in discussions there.
You also will be asked to respond to emails in our PonyCon email account (not daily, but on a regular base too).
Art Assistant
Come and join the team!
As Art Assistant you will be a full member of the UK PonyCon committee and will help us to make your favourite convention look pretty!
You will assist the Art-Coordinator with one or more of the following:
Website Maintenance
Forum Skin Design
Pretty-Ups for our announcements (forum, FB, Twitter, website)
Designing our con merchandise (Posters, Shirts, etc.)
Putting our Con-Book together
Your job is very busy in the run up to the convention and quieter on the day - which means you will be asked to assist on the main day with more general roles too, such as helping to set up, sell merchandise or raffle tickets, run easy events and maybe more.
We ask you to be online regularly - best daily - to check in on the forum/committee room and take part in discussions there.
You also will be asked to respond to emails in our PonyCon email account (not daily, but on a regular base too).
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Please pm me, pinkkittywinks with your application, you must title your pm with the position that you are applying for. I will accept applications for the next few weeks starting from today 1 November until 23 November 2015 with a view to a cooling off period in the last week of November for “rooming in” new committee members.
I want to take this chance to remind you that this hard work, but also extremely rewarding! It is like having an unpaid job as you will have all the responsibility of a job, but no pay! You must be prepared to work hard and pitch in when and where needed.
Love pkw xxx