PRO AND SECRETARY NEEDED
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES OF P.R.O
Key skills for public relations officers
- Excellent communication skills both orally and in writing
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Good IT skills
- Presentation skills
- Ability to prioritise and plan effectively
- Awareness of different media agendas
- Creativity
- Planning publicity strategies and campaigns
- Writing and producing presentations and press releases
- Dealing with enquiries from the public, the press, and related organisations
- Organising and attending promotional events such as press conferences, open days, exhibitions, tours and visits
- Speaking publicly at interviews, press conferences and presentations
- Providing clients with information about new promotional opportunities and current PR campaigns progress
- Analysing media coverage
- Commissioning or undertaking relevant market research
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES OF SECRETARY
1.Ensuring meetings are effectively organised and minuted
- Liaising with the Chairman to plan meetings
- Circulating agendas and reports
- Taking minutes (unless there is a minutes secretary)
- Circulating approved minutes
- Checking that agreed actions are carried out.
- Maintaining effective records and administration
- Keeping up-to-date contact details (i.e. names, addresses and telephone numbers) for the management committee and (where relevant) ordinary members of the organisation.
- Filing minutes and reports
- Compiling lists of names and addresses that are useful to the NGO, including those of appropriate officials or officers of voluntary organisations.
- Keeping a record of the organisation’s activities
- Keeping a diary of future activities
- Upholding legal requirements
- Acting as custodian of the organisation’s governing documents
- Checking quorum is present at meetings
- Ensuring organisation’s activities are in line with its objects
- Ensuring charity and company law requirements are met (where relevant, unless there is a separate company secretary)
- Sitting on appraisal, recruitment and disciplinary panels, as required.
- Communication and correspondence
- Responding to all committee correspondence
- Filing all committee correspondence received and copies of replies sent
- Reporting the activities of the organisation and future programmes to members, the press and the public (unless there is an Information or Publicity Officer).
- Preparing a report of the organisation’s activities for the year, for the Annual General Meeting.