Volunteer
Belnorth FC is run by Volunteers
Belnorth FC’s coaches, managers and committee members are all un-paid volunteers and make the club tick. Without them, the players wouldn’t get on the park running around and kicking balls.
It is a constant struggle to fill vacant positions, especially committee and other behind-the-scenes auxiliary roles.
The Coach
The coach is usually a parent of one of the players, who attends training and games.
- 1-2 hours per week (U8 and up) for weekday trainings
- Coaching the team on the weekend
- U10 and up: completing Match Sheets (Dribl) with manager
- Works with the team manager to ensure fair game play/time for players
- Development the players skills through training sessions
The Manager
The manager is usually a parent who is committed to attending most of the games while helping out the coach where needed along with the general running of the team.
- Managing communication within the team
- Relaying information from the committee
- U10 and up: completing Match Sheets (Dribl) with coach
- Works with the team coach to ensure fair game play/time for players
Club Vested Official (CVO)
A CVO represents the club and is responsible for the actions of supporters from their club.
Essentially, they get to wear a cool vest, help ensure spectators behave themselves and foster respect.
Club Changers
Assist with implementing Club Changer modules.
Committee
The club is run by volunteers, led by the committee.
The Committee roles and descriptions are below.
- Capital Football Liaison (disciplinary)
- Representative on External Meetings (i.e Capital Football)
- Public Grant Administration
- External Media Liaison
- Responsible for assisting the President.
- Responsible for maintaining the financial accounts, the receipt of money and payment of accounts (including reimbursement of referees’ fees), the preparation of regular financial statements, and the annual budget.
- Responsible for submitting Belnorth accounts to the auditor and forwarding the information to the committee prior to AGM.
- A financial background with knowledge of bookkeeping is desirable. Belnorth’s bookkeeping is managed with Quickbooks.
- Custody of books (Belnorth Constitution Sec 44) – Policy (Holder of all policy documents)
- Claims (Coordinator of submitted claims)
- Internal publicity (Web/email/newsletter)
- Public Officer
- Maintains written records, takes minutes of meetings, and receives and replies to correspondence.
- Take the minutes of meetings and record any action items given to enable committee members to keep track of progress against key tasks.
- Maintain electronic and hard copy files for the relevant documentation.
- Lodgement of relevant documentation to Access Canberra within the specified timeframes. Such as the reporting obligations for incorporated associations (I.e. Annual Returns, Changes of Committee, Change of Public Officer, Change of Registered Office and Changes of Objects or Rules).
- Age Group: administration for men’s and women’s teams.
- PlayFootball: administration of payments and registrations
- Dribl: match card administration
- Equipment: Liaison with Operations officer
- Trophy: Liaison with Operations officer
- Age Group: administration for U12 to U18 teams.
- PlayFootball: administration of payments and registrations
- Dribl: match card administration
- Equipment: Liaison with Operations officer
- Trophy: Liaison with Operations officer
- Age Group: administration for U10 to U11 teams.
- PlayFootball: administration of payments and registrations
- Dribl: match card administration
- Equipment: Liaison with Operations officer
- Trophy: Liaison with Operations officer
- Age Group: administration for U8 to U9 teams.
- PlayFootball: administration of payments and registrations
- Equipment: Liaison with Operations officer
- Trophy: Liaison with Operations officer
- Age Group: administration for U5 to U7 teams.
- PlayFootball: administration of payments and registrations
- Equipment: Liaison with Operations officer
- Trophy: Liaison with Operations officer
- Ground Booking Liaison
- Fixture (Draw) composition
- Equipment maintenance (nets/flags/goals) – Coord role (Registrars)
- Equipment: organisation of equipment, including distribution, auditing and ordering. Liaise with the rest of the committee.
- Trophy Liaison: Coordination role with registrars.
- Presentation day organisation (coordination role)
- Event Organisation (coordination role)