S.No
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Position
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Role
Description
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1
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Competitions Manager
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- Conduct technical communication competitions
[technical writing, technical art or illustration]
- Design and come up with contests
- Announce these contests in different mailing lists
- Nominate a set of judges and evaluate the entries
received
- Work with the admin council to award the prizes
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2
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Education and Scholarship
Manager
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- Education
activities
- Work closely with academia (colleges/universities)
- Conduct talks in colleges/universities on
technical writing. Get students interested in the profession
- Work with colleges and assist them to setup
technical writing courses/certificate programs
- Assist universities in coming up with syllabus for
technical writing course
- Work with the admin council to get interested STC
volunteers to teach these courses
- Scholarship activities
- Work closely with different colleges/universities
offering technical writing/communication as a course
- Identify suitable and worthy candidates for
awarding scholarship. Work with the course coordinator and lecturers to
get more information about the candidates
- Work with the admin council to disburse the
scholarship amount
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3
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Membership and Employment
Manager
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- Membership activities
- Evangelize about STC membership benefits. Get many
people roped in to become STC members.
- Explain the benefits of STC membership in various
forums (learning sessions, regional conferences, employment fairs)
- Conduct roadshows, send out e-mails etc to get
people interested in joining STC
- Maintain the member database for STC India
chapter. Membership database consists of member names, e-mail id, and
other information
- Maintain the STC India mailing list
- Employment activities
- Conduct employment fairs in different cities
working closely with the city reps
- Conduct employment roadshows
- Assist in conducting technical writing salary
surveys
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4
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Public Relations and
Sponsorship Manager
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- Public Relations
- PR Manager coordinates the press releases and
announcements for STC India chapter
- Get press/media coverage for STC India chapter
activities
- Maintain the STC India PR blog to communicate STC
India activities
- Sponsorship
- Works continuously with corporates to get
sponsorship for various STC activities (mostly for regional
conferences, employment fair, and annual conference)
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5
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Newsletter (INDUS)
Editors, Publisher
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INDUS is STC India's
award winning online newsletter/journal on technical communication.
These volunteers support INDUS:
- Copy editors (2):
To perform edit on the articles received and make it ready for
publication
- Publisher:
To perform the required tasks, and make INDUS web-ready (for publishing
to the web). Knowledge of online/web editors is a must for this position
- Coordinator:
To work closely with contributors, and contact potential contributors
and source articles for INDUS
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