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OUTLINE OF RESPONSIBILITIES FOR SAMPLE

LEADERSHIP TEAM POSITIONS
FRN National has put together some guidelines for how you may want to delegate responsibilities among your leadership
team. These are simply our suggestions; please work within your leadership team to make sure that everyone has
responsibilities they are equipped to take on. Work together to adjust roles as needed. Collaboration across positions
is essential for a strong leadership team; support eachother at all times, offering advice and assistance as needed.
PRESIDENT:
Schedules & facilitates meetings
delegates responsibilities to other leadership team members and ensures they are completing them
Ensures that all necessary steps are taken to become and remain an organization on campus.
Develops the FRN chapters protocols, and acts as the main communicator with your point of contact at FRN
National.
VICE PRESIDENT:
Assumes responsibilities of other team members when they cannot be completed
Recruits applicants and facilitates voting for future leadership positions
Takes notes at meetings
Organizes FRN paperwork.
TREASURER:
Keeps track of organizational funds
Applies for funding from the university or grants from the national office
Brainstorms fundraising ideas and collaborates with the Event & PR Coordinator to develop fundraising
events and campaigns.
DINING HALL/RESTAURANT COORDINATOR:
Acts as the main point of contact with dining services, local restaurants, farms (wherever the donations are
coming from)
Ensures that the recoveries run smoothly and that all food safety procedures are followed.
Establishes and updates the recovery schedule in accordance with the food donor(s) and the FRN members
Works with the food donors and the Event & PR Coordinator to organize events with the food donor(s).

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PARTNER AGENCY COORDINATOR:

Acts as the main point of contact with the agencies that are accepting the food donations
Maintains a primary and a back up contact person at each of the partner agencies,
Ensures that partner agencies are aware of and in agreement with the recovery schedule, the items
donated, and the procedures followed.
Works with the Event & PR Coordinator to organize events at/to support the partner agency.
VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR:
Coordinates the students signed up for each recovery and makes sure that there is a solid number (3-5 for
one car 6-7 for 2 cars) of volunteers for each recovery run and that they show up on time.
Ensures that all volunteers are briefed in food safety, and that at least one leadership team member or
experienced volunteer is present at each recovery
Works with the list of volunteers who have signed up or assigns a different student organization to
be responsible for each recovery on a rotating schedule (e.g. the club soccer team does recoveries on
Wednesdays).
Ensures that the online food tracking form is filled out after each recovery
EVENT & PUBLIC RELATIONS COORDINATOR:
Organizes awareness events on campus, at partner agencies, or within other parts of the community
Works with the treasurer to organize fundraising events and campaigns
Works with the Partner Agency Coordinator to organize events with the partner agency
Works with the dining hall/restaurant coordinator to organize events with the food donors
Maintains the groups facebook/twitter/other social media pages, writing articles about the chapters
success, taking pictures at every opportunity, etc.
**Please ensure that FRN National is sent pictures, media features, blogs and information about events your
chapter has hosted and is planning on hosting in the future!

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