STC India Chapter Officers and Volunteers Responsibilities
| Role | Responsibilities | Volunteer/s |
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| Communications Manager (erstwhile PR Manager) | Work with media, blog on STC India activities, and identify external communication opportunities. | |
| Competitions Manager | Identify judges, conduct annual technical communication competitions on technical writing, online communication, and technical illustration. Experience in technical communication will help in making the call on awards. | |
| Education Manager | a. Organise talks in colleges/universities on technical writing to get students interested in the profession
b. Setup taskforces with volunteers for different cities; or in areas such as defining curricula, setting up technical writing courses/certificate programs: creating course material, identifying and coordinating with instructors |
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| Employment Manager | Conduct employment fairs in different cities working closely with the city reps, assist in conducting technical writing salary surveys. | |
| Mentorship Manager | Conducts the mentorship program twice in a year. Responsible for providing ongoing support, advice and career director to participants. The mentorship manager allow mentors and mentees to select each other. | |
| Membership Manager | a. Evangelize about STC membership benefits. Get many people roped in to become STC members.
b. Conduct road shows, send out e-mails etc to get people interested in joining STC c. Maintain the member database for STC India chapter. Send out welcome e-mail messages to new and renewing members. d. Maintain the STC India mailing list |
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| Scholarship Manager | Identify suitable candidates from colleges and universities for awarding scholarship. Work closely with Education Manager. | |
| City Representatives | Conduct monthly learning sessions, regional conferences, and assist admin council/management committee on city-specific matters. Need to be based in that city.
1. Bangalore 2. Pune 3. Delhi/NCR 4. Chennai 5. Trivandrum 6. Hyderabad 7. Mumbai 8. Kolkata 9. Chandigarh If you have any other cities that you’d like to volunteer for, please send a proposal with number of technical writers in that city, the number of learning sessions and other activities you can conduct, and any other supporting reasons why that city should have a dedicated representative. All such suggestions will be reviewed by the Council. |
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| INDUS newsletter | INDUS (http://indus.stc-india.org/) is STC India’s award winning online newsletter/journal on technical communication.
a.Editors (2): Contact potential contributors and source articles for INDUS; edit the articles received and make it ready for publication. Skilled editing is a must. b. Publisher: Make INDUS web-ready. Knowledge of online/web editors is a must for this position. |
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| Webmaster | Person responsible for managing and maintaining the STC India portal (http://stc-india.in) and so on. Expertise in HTML language and Wordpress publishing platform are desired. |
