Steering Committee

Roles:

Management team

Formed by the chair and the secretary. Responsible for ensuring the committee functions smoothly and achieves its goals.

• Chair: leads meetings, sets agendas, moderates discussions and delegates tasks to volunteer members. It represents the HAAM community in any official meetings or interviews. They are also responsible for having an overview of the various initiatives by maintaining a close communication with the treasurer, social media and engagement teams. Allows for discussion around long-term topics, needs to be forward thinking on this end.

• Vice-Chair: Will support the Chair and fill in when the Chair is not available. Distribution of work can be discussed between the Chair and Vice-Chair.

• Secretary: Takes meeting minutes, sends them out via Element when they are ready, makes sure that assignments are noted. Organisational responsibilities (i.e. keeping google docs in order, annotating the minutes with required links, possibly doing same for the agenda ahead of time).

Social media team

The social media team is responsible for the outreach of the community, by tweeting, emailing as well as updating the website. Social media officers will announce new initiatives, conferences, papers and jobs that are relevant for the HAAM community.

Engagement team

The engagement officers are responsible for coming up with new initiatives (projects, summer schools, outreach activities, etc.) and propose them to the community. They will also oversee ongoing initiatives and provide support for them to reach their goals. They will ensure that the initiative is known in the community, as well as outside the community together with the media team. As well as suggesting potential funding sources for the initiative, by engaging with the treasurer team.

IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) Coordinator

We aim to help create a space where everyone feels respected, included, and empowered. We’re here as a point of contact for any concerns, suggestions, or ideas related to these topics. We are currently looking for an IDEA coordinator. If you are interested please reach out to us. :)

Past Members

Below is a list of all past members of the HAAM Steering Committee, who helped create, establish, and improve our community over the years.