Dance Society: Communications Officer

Hi, I’m Charlotte, a second year in Pharmacy. I’ve been a part of dance society for two years; it’s allowed me to meet many amazing people and I would love to help others not only settle into the society but to answer any queries they have to ensure their time in the society is smooth. Dance has always been a big part of my life and having a supportive committee really aided make my transition from my dance school at home to dance at UCL much smoother. Through my time here, I’ve performed in many shows like freshers show, 24hr show and triple bill. This year I was choreographer for the intermediate Hip Hop team; a challenge but very rewarding. This academic year I also became a dance parent to help freshers settle in. I am running for this role for next year as I believe I’d be a great fit; I have good communication and organisational skills shown through my time as a competition choreographer. Moreover, I’m always happy to help people. I enjoy keeping updated with what’s going on in the society and try to attend and watch as many events and shows as I can to show support, hence why I would particularly enjoy writing the weekly mailer. I’m eager to meet new people and feel that this role is the perfect opportunity to be able to do so. A large reason I would like to be on committee is because I have seen the amount of work it takes to ensure that the society runs smoothly, and I would like to be able to help out and have yet another successful year of dance society.

I want to help in dance soc because it feels like such a fun and friendly environment. I think communications is the best decision for me. I love sending people texts and I’m usually a fast responder(specially on ig, because the message count annoys me, so no ghosting on my behalf). 

I pride myself in being able to convey a message in a precise and concise manner. Which will be very valuable while answering questions.

I work much better when there’s a schedule and I know what has to be done each week, rather than having to set times for myself. As a result, I think having the dance timetable and working based on it will help a lot.

I also think my course is quite demanding, so being able to rely on someone else, the publicity and design officer would be very helpful to me. I would only implement this measure in really extreme cases.

I would of course keep doing what’s being done nowadays: ig posts, e-mails and answering messages. I would like to brighten every dancer’s week by posting/e-mailing something fun. I promise to either post a meme or fun picture. I will of course keep Sarah’s tradition of putting puns in every e-mail.

Finally, I am quite good and really enjoy running Instagram pages and producing  interesting posts. This can be seen in the flat Instagram I have with my flatmates: flat_53k (great cv for this position if you as me).