President
The President is responsible for:
- working for a policy that balances the needs of members with service to gender and language study
representing IGALA and when appropriate and necessary speaking on its behalf, including in a lobbying capacity
working to develop relations between IGALA and other academic, professional and political bodies, as appropriate
consulting with Executive on issues concerning the management and running of IGALA and coming to a decision about these issues on the basis of Executive's wishes
ensuring that Executive has regular e-discussions on issues relating to IGALA
ensuring that the IGALA conference takes place and liaising with the organiser
" chairing (a) an Executive meeting, and (b) an Open Business meeting at the IGALA conference
ensuring that decisions that Executive make are followed through (in conjunction with the Secretary)
drawing up the Agenda for Executive Meetings (in conjunction with the Secretary) and running the meetings
maintaining links with the editors of the Gender and Language journal
- monitoring the IGALA site, identifying new links, documents and information to be posted on it, and liaising with the Webweaver about this (together with the President-elect and Secretary)
Vice-President (President-elect)
The Vice-President is responsible for:
- supporting the President as appropriate in all the above
assuming the duties of the President in the event the President cannot serve, and succeeding to the office of President at the expiration of the term as President-elect
monitoring the IGALA site, identifying new links, documents and information to be posted on it, and liaising with the Webweaver about this (together with the President and Secretary)
- chairing the Nominations Committee (to be discussed)
Past- President
- supporting the President as appropriate in all the above
- specifically, to act as consultant
Secretary
The Secretary is responsible for:
- gathering agenda items for meetings
- producing and distributing agendas
- keeping Minutes of IGALA Executive and Open meetings
- maintaining records of meetings and decisions
- producing and distributing/posting Minutes of the meetings to the IGALA Membership
- organising elections and distributing/posting results to the IGALA membership
- monitoring the IGALA site, identifying new links, documents and information to be posted on it, and liaising with the Webweaver about this (together with the President and President-elect)
Webweaver
The Webweaver is responsible for:
- hosting the IGALA website (e.g. on an institutional site), starting with the existing html files
- monitoring and updating pages, as appropriate
- updating pages in response to requests from Executive members, especially the Vice President and Secretary
- developing new pages, as appropriate
- proactively soliciting new information relevant to IGALA and posting it appropriately
- identifying IGALA documents which should be posted (e.g. as pdf. files), including past agendas, minutes, and policies (e.g. multilingual practices in IGALA, conference bursary award criteria)
- identifying and posting appropriate resources for (post)graduate students
- adding links to webpages of other relevant academic/political organisations, and encouraging them to reciprocat
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