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The following jobs are non-voting, team support members of the OCCBC. The descriptions are from the current version of the OCCBC Constitution and ByLaws, v.12:

The Athletic Boosters rep represents the crew team at the regular Oakton Athletic Booster meetings. The Athletic Booster rep reports back to the Oakton Crew Board.

This is a parent who stays at the boat house when we are having on-the-water practice. This parent:

• helps supervise any students doing land workouts
• has his or her own cell phone for emergencies
• helps find missing equipment
• has a change of clothes if someone gets wet and doesn't have one
• ensures the boats are wiped down before putting them away
• can even learn to help with minor boat repairs that can easily be done at practice
• emails the operations group to let them know about any boat repairs that are needed

A bag of necessary supplies and a key for the locker are provided. You just need to provide your time.

The Hospitality person helps organize and recruits volunteers for:

• hosts for team parties (including the pasta parties)
• team snacks on regatta days
• the end of year team banquet
• coordinates as needed for the school varsity sports banquet
• coordinates Pasta Dinner Hosting (see next description)

These volunteers host a pasta dinner for the team on Friday, the night before the regatta. All team members are invited to the dinner. The host family is responsible for the pasta, white and red sauce, beverage, and paper goods. The host family is given some money from the crew funds to help cover the purchases. Also, rowers bring a salad, garlic bread, and/or finger friendly dessert (fruit, cookies, brownies). Other parents can also volunteer to serve, refill beverages, and help clean up.

The Occoquan Local Organizing Committee (OLOC) is a subgroup of VASRA that focuses on the regattas on the Occoquan that are held at Sandy Run. The OLOC rep represents Oakton at the meetings and also spends all day every regatta working in the headquarters at Sandy Run. This job requires a two year commitment. Because this job requires such a large time investment, the person filling this job gets a break on their club dues.

The Spirit wear volunteer:

• deals with team jacket orders - collects orders, orders the jackets from the jacket company, and makes jacket pick up places and times available
• helps decide what the spirit wear choices for the year will be and what the artwork will look like
• deals with the spirit wear orders - collects orders, places the order with the spirit wear company, and makes spirit wear pick up places and times available

The Uniforms volunteer:

• reminds returning team members to check whether their uniforms still fit
• measures new team members and returning team members who outgrew their uniforms
• places the order with the uniform company
• makes uniform pick up places and times available

The VASRA (Virginia, formerly National Capital Area, Scholastic Rowing Association) rep represents Oakton at the regular VASRA Board of Directors meetings (approximately 6 over the year). VASRA is the membership organization of local high school rowing clubs that sponsors the regattas in which the high school teams compete. The VASRA rep reports back to the Oakton Crew Board.

The Webmaster position is part of the communications committee and deals with both the website and the email lists. The webmaster is the contact point between the board and the web hosting / domain registration company.
For the email lists, the webmaster:

• Creates and maintains all email addresses and mailing lists used by Oakton crew
• Helps families diagnose problems with getting emails delivered or sent (usually spam filter issues)
• Works with email provider companies that black ball all mail from our host company to get on their white list

For the website, the webmaster:

• Actively gathers information from board members, parents, crew events, school news, etc. to provide web page contents
• Provides frequent updates to the index, news, volunteer sign up, and ad pages
• Takes photos needed for the web pages or gathers photos from others
• Resolves any technical issues with the website, form mail, etc.