Want to steer CSTS to a bright and successful 2011 season?

Nominations are now open to head up next year’s Can’t Stop the Serenity Global Team!

If you’ve previously run or worked on your city’s CSTS event, and have an interest in being considered for the Global Organizer position for next year’s events, please read the following information and send in your application documents by September 5.

Here’s what you need to know…

The Global Organiser reports directly to the Global Steering Committee and is responsible for:

Directing the year’s global efforts
Building and supporting the Global Team
Supporting event organizers
Setting and managing key dates and deadlines
Encouraging handover of all team members’ information upon conclusion of their role/term, to include encouraging their cooperation with the next year’s team to ensure a smooth transition
Being the public face of CSTS for the year (including being a prominent promoter and communicator of CSTS)
Maintaining the integrity and purpose of CSTS for the year

The role can be time consuming, but it is very rewarding. Knowing that your efforts have contributed to raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for Equality Now, that you have taken on a challenge and risen to the occasion, and that you’ve had the support of Browncoats across the globe is an amazing feeling.

You should also know that there are some costs involved (at least there have been to now) with being GO. Please be prepared to possibly spend a few hundred dollars of your own money to cover expenses, unless we can figure out better ways to deal with this. (CSTS Global has no income, and yet has expenses for things like shipping items for auctions and such. There has been talk previously of requiring a “city registration fee” to help offset these costs, but so far, it has not been initiated.)

To be eligible for self-nomination, you must:

Have been a local organizer of a CSTS event for 1 year OR been on a local CSTS event team for 1 year
Be located in the USA, or show proof of capability for basing your work in the USA (as merchandising and sponsorship needs to be based in the USA, as well as working with the USA VP of distribution at Universal)

To nominate yourself, you need to submit a statement detailing why you would like to be Global Organizer in 2011 including:

Your thoughts on what aspects of the effort can be strengthened at the global level in order to make the local events themselves more successful without interfering with the local nature of those events, and how you will go about this.
Examples of specific vendors or sponsors if the applicant already has some in mind (in addition to our existing sponsors, who are keen to return). This is optional at this early stage, and certainly not required.
Any other thoughts or ideas you have about continuing to make the effort a collection of successful events.
Examples of other organizing you’ve done, if any. These should focus on other Browncoat and/or charity events, but not necessarily to the exclusion of other relevant experience.
Whether you will also be the local event organizer. It is not disallowed that the Global Organizer not be a local event organizer, but to do both is very stressful, and it is not recommended.

Additionally, each nomination should include at least one letter of support (like a reference for a job application) by the closing date for applications, from either one of your team (if you are the event organizer), or from your event organizer (if you are an event team member). This letter should indicate why he or she feels you would make an excellent Global Organizer.

Please email your nomination and letters of support to: gsc@cantstoptheserenity.com

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