[Gala-l] IGALA Election of Vice-President and Secretary - VOTING NOW OPEN

[Michelle M Lazar]

Dear IGALA Members,

We are now in the final stages of constituting the new IGALA Board.  Earlier in the year, we elected the new Advisory Council.  Currently, we're electing our new Vice-President (President-Elect) and Secretary of IGALA.  The voting is now open for ONE month, from 21 April until 21 May 2015.


*        For the Post of Secretary, ONE candidate has been nominated: Kate POWER

*        For the Post of Vice President (President-Elect), TWO candidates have been nominated: Allyson JULE and Agnes KANG

Attached are the bios of all three candidates.  For ease of reference, I have appended at the end of this message the job descriptions of Secretary and Vice President (President-Elect).

Voting procedure:


1.     To cast your votes, please go to the following link and complete the form:  http://goo.gl/forms/Z1RMw0ZLgn


You will be asked to vote for either Allyson or Agnes for VP. You will also be asked to check against Kate's name for Secretary, if you agree that she is suitable for the post.  Please do not reply to this message. If you have any queries, please contact me directly at ellmml at nus.edu.sg<mailto:ellmml at nus.edu.sg>  and ensure that your email has the subject header 'IGALA Elections'.


2.     You MUST be a current IGALA member in order to vote. The fastest way to check on membership is to login to your account on the Equinox Gender and Language website: http://www.equinoxpub.com/GL When you log in, on the right side, there is information about your subscription (print or electronic) and an expiration date for the membership. It should read, "Expires: 31-Dec-2015".

Looking forward to your votes!

Michelle Lazar
IGALA President

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DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

The Secretary is responsible for

  *   gathering agenda items for meetings
  *   producing and distributing agendas
  *   keeping Minutes of IGALA Executive and Open meetings
  *   maintaining records of meetings and decisions
  *   producing and distributing/posting Minutes of the meetings to the IGALA Membership
  *   in conjunction with the Vice President/President-elect, organising elections.
  *   monitoring the IGALA site, identifying new links, documents and information to be posted on it, and liaising with the Advisory Council Member in charge of the Website about this (together with the President and President-elect)
  *   post runs for two years
 The Vice-President (President-Elect) is responsible for:

  *   supporting the President as appropriate in all the President's duties
  *   assuming the duties of the President in the event the President cannot serve, and succeeding to the office of President* at the expiration of the term as President-elect
  *   monitoring the IGALA site, identifying new links, documents and information to be posted on it, and liaising with the Advisory Council Member in charge of the (soon-to-be set up) Website about this (together with the President and Secretary)
  *   chairing the Nominations Committee for Advisory and Executive IGALA committee members
  *   running the IGALA International Bursary Allocation Committee (together with an Advisory Council Member)
  *   running the IGALA Postgraduate Student Essay Competition (including chairing the committee, one member of whom will be the Graduate Student Representative)
  *   post runs for two years

* The President [currently Michelle Lazar, until 2016] is responsible for

  *   working for a policy that balances the needs of members with service to gender, sexuality and language study
  *   representing IGALA and when appropriate and necessary speaking on its behalf, including in a lobbying capacity
  *   working to develop relations between IGALA and other academic, professional and political bodies, as appropriate
  *   consulting with Executives on issues concerning the management and running of IGALA and coming to a decision about these issues on the basis of Executive's wishes
  *   ensuring that Executives have regular e-discussions on issues relating to IGALA
  *   ensuring that the IGALA conference takes place and liaising with the organiser
  *   chairing (a) an Executive meeting, and (b) an Open Business meeting at the IGALA conference
  *   ensuring that decisions that Executives make are followed through (in conjunction with the Secretary)
  *   drawing up the Agenda for Executive Meetings (in conjunction with the Secretary) and running the meetings
  *   maintaining links with the editors of the Gender and Language journal
  *   monitoring the IGALA site, identifying new links, documents and information to be posted on it, and liaising with the Advisory Council Member in charge of the Website about this (together with the Vice-President/President-Elect and Secretary)
  *   post runs for two years



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