Duties and Responsibilities
- Maintain a close, working relationship with the president.
- Basically, you should be learning as much as possible about how to be the president of your chapter.
- Ask your president intelligent questions and learn how to plan your chapter’s annual events.
- It is your responsibility to assume the duties and role of the president if they are ever incapable of leading. Make sure you are ready to step in, help out, and lead at a moment's notice.
- Begin correspondence with faculty advisor and school officials.
- Your president should include you on emails that they send regarding official business, and if possible, in meetings regarding chapter operations. If your president does not do this, ask them politely to start.
- Develop and maintain ideas/initiatives/goals for your chapter.
- As president-elect, the majority of your job is observing. Take note of what you like in you chapter and start to think about ideas that you would like to see your chapter develop.
- Make the president's job easier.
- If your president asks you to do something, get it done.
- Be somebody that the president can trust and rely on.
- Don't pretend to know better than the president!
- It will be your turn eventually and being president is a hard job. Do your best to trust that the president knows what they're talking about, even if it might not make sense to you right now. You won't truly understand how it feels to be in their shoes until you're actually in them.
- Listen to the president's advice - they've made mistakes, and you will to, but try not to make the same ones.
