Interested in becoming a leader for the Dartmouth Business Journal? Apply to become a member of our Executive Board! 

Dartmouth Business Journal will be considering applications for the 2012-2013 Executive Board. We encourage everyone to apply (this means 15's as well!) and no writing experience is necessary. Being a member of our Executive Board is a great dynamic experience that involves management, editorial, and business opportunities all within a motivated environment.

 We have a attached the application below along with a list of positions and their responsibilities. Applications are due tomorrow, February 19th at 4pm. If you have any questions or are interested in more information about a specific position, please blitz either this account or a current board member (names are listed next to position). Thanks for your interest, and we hope that your term is going well! 

Sincerely,
DBJ Executive Board


APPLICATION

Name:
Year:
Major:
D-Plan for 2012-2013:
Position(s) you are applying for:

1) Please briefly describe your experience with DBJ or other publications.

2) Please describe your leadership experience on campus outside of DBJ. 

3) Please explain what about business most interests you.

4) Optional- What would you change about DBJ as an Exec?

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POSITIONS

President (currently Giulia Siccardo '12)
·      Leads meetings, keeps Constitution updated
·      Actively recruits new members
·      Checks in with editors and writers to keep everyone on schedule
·      Draws up term calendar
·      Keeps in touch with alums; new sources of interviews
·      Oversees and is present at activity fair at start of each fall term + Dimensions

·      Point of contact with advisor (Prof. Kreicher) and the administration

Editor - 4 people (currently Ran Sun '12 and Daniel Rozenfeld '12 with 2 open positions) 
·      Bring 10 topics each to meetings at start of term
·      Keep in touch with writers every week and sends reminder prior to submission deadline
·      Take turns writing "Message from the Board" each term. One editor does fall, one does winter, etc.

·      Does first edit for all their writers’ articles (sending articles back to writer if essential facts are missing).

Treasurer(currently Megan Ji '12)
·      Go to big COSO meeting at start of term (generally Wednesdays) to collect free $100! Gather funding proposal papers and submit them before deadline.
·      Remain in contact with Whitman Communications to insure that issue will be printed on time.
·      Keeps an account of outside donations that DBJ has at its disposal

·      Arranges travel for writers

Director of Publicity(currently Aaron Goone '14)
·      Checks blitz account 24/7 – this means connecting it to your main email server/account (MacMail/Gmail/etc)
·      Monitors the Facebook page and posts announcements when new issues are released, events occur, etc. to improve DBJ’s campus visibility.
·      Blitzes out to campus about meeting and when the issue arrives.

·      Arranges for at least one big social event for members each term

Design Editor - 3 people (currently Ellena Kim '12 with 2 open positions)
·      Note that templates use Pages, a Mac software. Design Team members must have a Mac, publisher room, or work from library Mac computers (Jones Media has Macs with Pages software; not all library computers necessarily do)
·      Start and finish entire layout and design of journal each term and design cover

·      Receive proof copy from Whitman and ensure that everything is okay for publication 

Director of Technology (currently Giulia Siccardo '12/ open position)
·      Keeps track of website: comment approval, install updated plug-ins, keeps staff list current each term
·      Uploads articles at end of term before paper issues are released to campus

·      Implement improvements to website as necessary