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The Trip Secretary is a newly created role for the UCL Snowsports Committee. The Trip Secretary for 22/23 will be assisting the president with managing the ski trips of the year.
Responsibilities include:
1. Serve as the primary point of contact alongside the president between the third-party
travel agency responsible for organising annual ski trip(s) and the rest of the committee.
2. Will liaise with the rest of committee to ensure successful running of the trip, ie: social secretaries to ensure well-scheduled and organised events during the trip; external relations officer to ensure proper sponsorship; captains to organise committee ski-along and pre-trip trainings; the media and marketing officer to advertise the trip on social media and around campus; and the treasurer to organise the financial feasibility of the trip and understanding how trip revenue allows the club to function.
3. Advertise the trip at society and students' union events such as the welcome fair.
4. Be prepared to answer member questions and work with the third-party travel agency responsible for organising annual ski trip(s) to resolve possible conflicts while abroad
5. Support any emergency injury/illness during the annual ski trip(s) as required 3.12.6. Responsible for investigating and organising accommodation for long distance
competitions not related to the annual ski trip(s) including but not limited to: BUDS, Dome Series Finals, Afterjam.
6. Attend students' union welfare training to ensure the annual ski trip(s) are compatible with the safe and friendly environment that the Snowsports club strives to achieve.
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Alasdair Fletcher
Hi, I’m Alasdair and I’m your interim trip sec - a role I have been in for the past month and a bit. In this role, I have begun planning the easter trip, and contributed to helping out with the winter trip and other miscellaneous snowsports tasks.
As your trip sec, I am looking forward to making our spring trip an affordable and inclusive experience for UCL students! This will include scoping out the cheapest location not just on ticket price, but also on cost of food, drink, etc. while we are out there. Then, I will liaise with trip organising companies, and other snowsports committees to negotiate the best possible deal for our club. Furthermore, I will continue working with the captains to get more beginners skiing on dryslope here in the UK to broaden our reach for people to come on trip.
In order to make the trip inclusive, I will enable anonymous reporting in the unfortunate case of people being uncomfortable, and leverage committee and NUCO reps to work together to do room rounds and make every trip-goer a part of our society. By doing this, we will likely see an influx of social and team members from trip! Making these people feel welcomed from day 1 is critical.
My experience as interim, combined with being ski captain last year, significant exposure I have had in the ski industry, and my experience working with the union and all it does so well make me an excellent candidate for the role, and I look forward to organising one of our best trips yet!
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