Below is a broad overview of the roles and responsibilities held by the PAC Executive in current and previous years:
Chair:
– runs the PAC meetings
– is the official spokesperson for the PAC
– main liaison with the school administration
– holder of the PAC chequebook; is a primary signator of PAC cheques
– drafts PAC communication to include in the school newsletters and sends announcements to our school community (eg. WhatsApp)
Vice-Chair:
– assists the Chair and fills in where needed
– manages the jamiesonpac.com website
– manages the email inbox for info@jamieson.com
– manages Jamieson fundraisers (this is not a specific responsibility for the Vice-Chair; it can be done by any PAC member)
Treasurer:
– keeps track of the PAC finances
– applies for Gaming Grant each year
– provides a financial report at each PAC meeting
Secretary:
– writes and distributes the minutes from all meetings
Members-At-Large:
– assists where required
– in previous and current year, have held specific roles
Other Roles:
- Hot Lunch Coordinator
- Communicate with Hot Lunch Vendors via lunch@jamiesonpac.com email
- In June, confirm with Principal which days can be Hot Lunch days for the following school year.
- In Aug, create a calendar for Hot Lunch Vendors rotation
- By Sept Week 2, menus from Hot Lunch Vendors need to be entered into MunchALunch.
- Need 1 week for parents to order and 1 week for Hot Lunch Vendor to lock down orders. Therefore, lunch can start on the last week of Sept or 1st week of Oct (working backwards and counting weeks).
- Price menu items since Hot Lunch Vendors change costs and items (last year detail reports will help)
- Sign vendor cheques with PAC Chair to pay Hot Lunch Vendors
- Coordinate Hot Lunch Leads
- Handle Hot Lunch help requests (eg. order troubles, cancellations, charges accounts who didn’t order but was given extra lunch, credits to families from Helping Hands Fund)
- Volunteers Coordinator
- Oversee Volunteers WhatsApp chat
- Create SignUpGenius volunteer sheets for each term after calendar given by Hot Lunch Coordinator
- Check SignUpGenius couple times a week to make sure we have enough Hot Lunch Volunteers and canvas if we don’t
- Christmas appreciation for Volunteers who volunteer during last 2 weeks of Dec hot lunch
- Plan a year end appreciation for frequent volunteers
- Coordinate with Principal to pick a date in June for student volunteers pizza
- Plan a year end appreciation for Hot Lunch Leads
- Snack Shop Coordinator
- Order/re-fill TCBY when inventory is low
- Organize re-stock of Snack Shop items (eg. Costco runs)
- Coordinate with Hot Lunch Leads for Snack Shop
- Hot Lunch Report Admin
- Send hot lunch order reports to vendors 7 days before their hot lunch date
- Send School Admin the reports to print for Volunteers
- Hot Lunch Leads
- Coordinate with Hot Lunch vendors, Hot Lunch Volunteers and School Admin on Hot Lunch days to delivery lunch to students
- Coordinate with Snack Shop Volunteers on Snack Shop days
- Hot Lunch Volunteers
- Receive, sort and organize lunches on Hot Lunch days at 11:35am-12:25pm
- Snack Shop Volunteers
- Runs Snack Shop on Snack Shop days
- Fundraising
- Lead volunteers to manage fundraising efforts, could include, but not limited to:
- Apple Fundraiser
- Meat Fundraiser
- Additional volunteers to distribute fundraising items (i.e. 2:30pm – 3:30pm on a designated day)
- If you have ideas or contacts for new fundraising ideas please contact volunteer@jamiesonpac.com
- Lead volunteers to manage fundraising efforts, could include, but not limited to:
- Special Events
- Volunteers for special events, usually evening of the designated day
- Event set-up and take-down
- Food and/or ticket sales
- Organizing vendors
- Volunteers for special events, usually evening of the designated day
- Marketing/Communications Subcommittee:
- Photographers – to capture school activities and candid moments for the website, yearbook and PAC newsletters.
- Content writers – seeking experienced writers for PAC newsletters, blog updates, etc.
- Graphic designers – put your graphic skills to work and help design posters, school notices and other communications
- Content Translators
- Yearbook
- Coordinating photo collecting
- Graphic layout, content development
DPAC Rep:
– attends monthly Vancouver District PAC meetings to represent, speak and vote on behalf of the Jamieson PAC and report back
Please email info@jamiesonpac.com for further information.
