UCLA ACM is recruiting Officers for Spring 2008 - Spring 2009. Applications for all positions are due Wednesday, April 9, 2008. The President, Vice President, and Lead Projects Chair will be selected first. The Officer Selection Committee will review the applications and invite some applicants to interview approximately 1-2 weeks after the deadline. The successful candidates will be announced shortly after that. Next, the new President, Vice President, and Lead Projects Chair will work with the Officer Selection Committee to select the rest of the officers. Besides President, Vice President, and Lead Projects Chair, no experience is necessary (but it is encouraged).
The following are the positions available, with some information about each.
President - The President's basic responsibilities include managing and motivating the coordinator staff (check-ins, 1:1 meetings, and status reports), creating meeting agendas and minutes, attending all ACM events, and presenting ACM to alumni boards and company representatives. The President functions at the "face" of the group and communication skills (oral and written), leadership skills, and the ability to commit time to the club outweigh any technical qualifications. The President should have extensive experience in managing projects and groups on campus, and should be prepared to work as an advisor on most ACM projects. Most importantly, the President provides vision for the club and encourages its coordinators and members to excel at their responsibilities.
Vice President - ACM Vice president officer has to be one that is enthusiastic about the club and understand the vision (missions and purposes) of the club. Vice president will be in charged (leader, head, advisor) of at least half of the things/projects/businesses that going on (# of things depends on whether there will be one or two vice presidents). Vice president has to be willing to contribute their time and effort to provide/offer services to the undergraduate student body. Vice president has a mission to create, promote and maintain an active and learning environment for interested students to exchange knowledge and explore their creativities. Bottom line, vice president is one that together with the president, in whatever way to bring helpful services to the student body and to make the undergraduate student lives in the CS department more exciting and enjoyable. As vice president it is important to augment the role of the president. You must be at every event/meeting, if possible. You should be ready to "substitute" for the President if necessary. Must keep close contacts with Faculty Liaison as well as Career Advisor. Project management is encouraged but only with the consent of the Lead Projects Chair. Constantly on the look out for improvements within the club and discuss concerns/suggestion with the President. Create and direct task forces when necessary.
Lead Projects Chair - Lead Projects Chair is a blend between having technical resources and knowledge with the leadership and group skills. This officer supervises all of the projects hosted by ACM. Because this is a lead position, leadership experience is required. Applicant must be motivated, have a good work ethic, and lots of initiative. Lead Projects chair is like a technical version of the President. Lead Projects Chair is the gateway to ACM's technical resources. You must be prepared to deploy them to their fullest utilization.
Programming Competition Coordinator - The competition coordinator is responsible for guiding student competitors through the processes of competition. The main tasks include providing competition information, conducting competitor selection, handling competition registration, and ensuring competitor preparation. The coordinator generally handles communication with faculty when a competition coach or mentor is needed. The main competition coordinated is the ACM International Colligate Programming Competition (ICPC), which usually holds regional contests in second week of November; however the coordinator is free to seek out new challenges for the students. Basically, this coordinator is responsible for directing ACM's competition effort at UCLA.
Programming Contest Coordinator - The Programming Contest Coordinator is responsible for ACM's programming challenges (http://acm.cs.ucla.edu/contest). The coordinator works with faculty, alumni, and company representatives to secure funding and problem sets for the (typically) monthly logic and programming competitions that ACM presents to the campus. This position is a rare opportunity to work directly with students, gain technical experience (the coordinator is responsible for grading submissions), and interact with industry recruiters and faculty. This coordinator should be prepared to be authoritative on matters of contest judging but also must have the social skills to elicit as many prizes as possible from industry.
Web Presence - The Web is a powerful medium to spread the word about a growing student group. Keeping this in mind, the primary task of the Web Presence Coordinator, as the title suggests, is to build ACM's presence on the web. Responsibilities include maintaining and enhancing the group's online Content Management System, as well as setting up and working on any new secondary web-based projects that would aid the group's growth. Examples of such projects include the Resume Database. Necessary skills include working knowledge of server-side scripting (PHP preferred) and databases (MySQL preferred) and familiarity with UNIX servers.
Group Project Leader - The requirements of becoming a project leader are very extensive. First, the leader must organize an appropriately sized group of people who will contribute to this project. Once a group of interested people has been found, the structure of the group must be created. After this organization has been completed, the leader must apply for funding if it is necessary. Next, the leader is responsible for making sure that this project is moving along as scheduled and that the group members are not becoming disinterested. Lastly, the leader is responsible for selecting the location for this project and making sure that all of the negotiations have been performed so that it can be placed there upon completion.
Treasurer - The ACM Treasurer is responsible for the management of all the sources of funding that enable ACM to host and help with projects and activities. The Treasurer is also responsible for keeping separate accounts for different ACM projects while also making sure that these accounts are not overdrawn by any one project. Receipts for items or services purchased for meetings and activities are given to the Treasurer so that these claims can be processed and reimbursement can be distributed in a timely manner to those that made the purchases. The Treasurer is responsible for having up to date balances on all ACM accounts at all times.
Freshman / Sophomore Liaison - The Freshman, Sophomore Liaison contributes to and spearheads a variety of projects. For example, this officer is in charge of organizing the CS Town Hall. This person will chair the CS Town Hall taskforce; contribute to Linux, Funky, and New Office taskforces. This officer must hold meetings regarding their projects and contribute to all facets of ACM regularly. They must have a high participation rate in ACM activities and have excellent attendance. Of course it is also important to plan on other new activities such as orientations for change of majors, professor talks, etc.
Advertising Coordinator - In this position the person is responsible for assisting fellow officers with putting together flyers and spreading the word about the events that the fellow officers are working on. Create quarter sheets to hand out for advertisement of our General body meeting. In addition he/she is responsible for creating the time table and get the fellow officers to sign up for time slots for when they can visit and promote ACM, and invite them to our general body meetings. Encourage students to join ACM and get involved in the student projects we have going on.
Career Advisor - Most of the activities under the Career Advisor's operation involve internship opportunities and job seeking skills. This position is responsible for contacting software companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Amgen for hosting info sessions and computing related workshops. Moreover, one must seek ways, such as Mock Interview and Resume Building workshop, to provide students with opportunities to develop skills that cannot otherwise be obtained from normal curriculum. The purpose of this position is to construct a bridge between prospective students and engineering industry. This goal converges to the destiny of ACM as to promote an increased knowledge of and greater interest in the science, design, development, and applications of modern computing.
Community Service Coordinator - Community service coordinator leads an out-reach program in ACM. The main goal of the coordinator is to help non-ACM members. Community service coordinator should come up with some ideas for his or her next project. Purposes of the community service event could be letting people know that signing up to ACM membership is beneficial to them, ACM offers many different kinds of help, and they can do a lot of cool stuff by majoring in CS, CS&E, EE.
Social Chair - The social chair is responsible for organizing and conducting events for the purpose of building club unity, spreading the ACM name, and promoting the club's objectives. These events may include parties, group outings, dinners, etc. The social chair also coordinate social events with other engineering clubs (i.e. IEEE) to help build interclub relations and lines of communication. A tool that the social chair may use is the club signboard. Since the signboard is useful in helping to spread the word about events, the social chair should be involved with designing, updating, creating and maintaining the material posted on the signboard.
Graduate Student Liaison - The graduate student liaison is the link between the undergraduate ACM activities and the computer science graduate students. This officer can assist in a variety of tasks such as help stir interest with the graduates, offer mentorship, and use past experiences to guide the direction of ACM.