Assisting with set up
Registration
Peacebonding
Information Services
Task Force/All Purpose-Deterers-of-bad-things-yojimbo
Volunteer Recruitment
All staff are encouraged to assist with setup. Even more, all staff are encouraged to assist with tear down. Peacebonding is a Yojimbo thing and Volunteer recruitment happens at all of our outreach events by whatever registration/publicity/directors are there. Street team (under publicity) also helps out with volunteer recruitment in a big way. When I was working for the street team this last year, alot of the job in addition to dropping off kcon flyers at different places, was to talk to people about volunteering and staffing. Information services is covered both by the info booth, and the Yojimbo.
There is currently an org chart for the department, it's on the staff website, it's pretty basic and intuitive too. Ops -> Assistant -> Managers -> Assistant Managers -> Coordinators -> Yojimbo/Reg/InfoDesk Staff. Of course Managers and Assistant managers bear the title of the staff that they work with.
Volunteer coordinator doesn't have much to do with staff. Staff and volunteers are defined differently in our organization. Here's the breakdown, Staff are voting members of Altonimbus, have to pay staff dues, and can go to things like the staff retreat. Volunteers are people who decide they want to help out with the con, but not be formally involved with the organization. The Volunteer coordinator is in charge of keeping track of volunteer hours worked and maintaining contact with people interested in volunteering. They also coordinate with street team, and registration to find potential volunteers during the year. At con, the volunteer coordinator helps the potential volunteers find out what they need to do by staying in contact with the ops director and knowing where we need people.
And on people working in multiple departments, you are allowed to hold multiple staff positions at one time as long as the associated director is willing to assign them to you.
-Brandon De Vore
