Appointed Position Description: Newsletter Editor, EVILS

 

 

Overview of Position Responsible for the creation and distribution of a Newsletter that will keep the membership informed about EVILS activities and issues. The Editor will be well informed and always mindful of the Mission of EVILS.

 

 

Overall Responsibilities:

 

The Newsletter Editor will create a newsletter that:

 

• Provides information about EVILS activities to include, but not limited to, investigations, hunts, fund raisers and any meeting notes.  

 

• Enhances member communication by providing updated phone numbers, e-mail and mailing addresses.

 

• Acknowledges members’ birthdays, conveys congratulations, sympathies, etc.  

 

• Features EVILS members who make contributions to the community, e.g.  elected to Board of Supervisors, School Board, or other notable action/honor.

 

• Provides notice of the Board Meetings. These notices will include meeting date, place, and state that time is allotted for member input at the beginning of each board meeting.

 

 The Newsletter Editor is responsible for:

 

• Setting deadlines.

 

• Adhering to editing and proof reading standards.

 

• Informing all parties of the deadline and items received after that deadline will appear in the next edition, if appropriate.

 

• Sending a draft of the newsletter for the co-founders’ review prior to distribution.

 

• Emailing the newsletter, edited for member confidentiality, to the Webmaster.    

 

• Distributing the newsletter to the membership by the first of each month every month with October being distributed twice a month, the first and the fifteenth… to that end the editor will:

 

Maintain a list of current email addresses for all members who are able and willing to receive the newsletter electronically.

Keep a list of members who wish to have a hard copy of the newsletter sent via U.S. Postal Service and coordinate with person responsible for that mailing.