Pakistan Society: General Secretary

Hi, I’m Maheem Imran and I’m a second-year Computer Science student. I’m nominating myself for the role of General Secretary for UCL Pakistan Society. I’ve been a committee member of PakSoc for the two years of my university experience at UCL and I can say that there is no other society that I can call home. PakSoc has become a family for me and the reason I want to be part of the committee is so that I can contribute to making PakSoc a home for the rest of you.

I have held the position of media and marketing officer for the last two years where my main responsibility was managing the social media and promoting events but I helped and worked very closely with other committee members to organize events like Pakistan week and Khushamdeed. Therefore I am familiar with the responsibilities of a general secretary.

During my experience at PakSoc, I have learned the importance of effective communication to make a society work. If I am appointed as the general secretary, I will provide better communication between the committee and society members about events and plans. I will be there for all other committee members and will support them in any way I can and I will be committed to bringing more ideas from meeting rooms to reality to make events bigger and better. Thank you for reading my manifesto.

Why me?

· I am passionate: Having been on the Pakistan Society committee this year I have thoroughly enjoyed having the chance to share my passion for and personal attachment to Pakistan, and all it has to offer-from food, to music, to art, to history, with other students, and I would like to continue this in a different role on the committee. 

· I have the relevant skills: I believe the role of General Secretary is perfectly suited to my well-rounded skillset. Crucially, the role involves being organised and demonstrating good time management, both of which I have developed this year through being on 3 different society committees this year alongside maintaining a good academic record. 

My vision for the role:

· Greater organization: I believe one of the key improvements that needs to currently be made to the Pakistan Society is greater organization. I will introduce a Teams channel to centralise meeting minutes and make deadlines a more important part of how the committee works.

· More seamless communication: Improving channels of communication between committee members to increase accountability and ensure things get done!

· Redefine the relevance of meetings: Meetings are for updates! They’re not a forum for carrying out the content of tasks, they’re for catching the committee up on progress.