Applications for the 2023/2024 committee are open now! |
The deadline for applications to be a team member, director or vice president / president close on the Friday the 24th March, at 12:00 GMT.
If successful you will begin as a part of the OCS team in Trinity term, whilst the current committee is still here to help out in the first few weeks, before beginning in earnest in week 3 of Trinity. Below are descriptions of what each of our Teams is about, and what kind of things you could be doing in each of them, both as a director or a team member. However you are not restricted by these and can reach out if you think there is a particular position or role not already described, that you would like to fill that would add to the Society. Also reach out if you have any questions, at: oxfordclimatesociety@gmail.com |
EVENTS TEAM
The main responsibility of the Events Director is to organise the OCS’s weekly events, and make sure the term card includes a sufficient variety of topics. In this role, you get the chance to shape the discussion around climate in Oxford, and introduce the audience to some of the many aspects of the climate debate. Together with the rest of the events team, you brainstorm topics, send out invitations to potential speakers, book venues, and do your best to make sure the events run smoothly.
Members of the Events Team help out with brainstorming topics and finding venues, and are present at most events to help out with practicalities such as showing people the way, making sure the technical side of things is working, etc. Occasionally they also send out emails contacting potential speakers.
As well as talks and panel discussions, the events team puts on more casual events such as socials and film screenings, where people get the chance to meet the committee, interact with each other and chat in an informal setting.
Being Events Director has its challenges, being hard to predict how much work you will have each week: Suddenly a train strike, illness, or other unexpected factors might make it necessary to make quick changes to the original plan. However, the role is very rewarding, as it gives you the chance to meet loads of fascinating people in the climate movement, influence the focus of the discussion on climate in Oxford, and develop your organisational skills.
Members of the Events Team help out with brainstorming topics and finding venues, and are present at most events to help out with practicalities such as showing people the way, making sure the technical side of things is working, etc. Occasionally they also send out emails contacting potential speakers.
As well as talks and panel discussions, the events team puts on more casual events such as socials and film screenings, where people get the chance to meet the committee, interact with each other and chat in an informal setting.
Being Events Director has its challenges, being hard to predict how much work you will have each week: Suddenly a train strike, illness, or other unexpected factors might make it necessary to make quick changes to the original plan. However, the role is very rewarding, as it gives you the chance to meet loads of fascinating people in the climate movement, influence the focus of the discussion on climate in Oxford, and develop your organisational skills.
OUTREACH TEAM
The Outreach Director is concerned with trying to get more people engaged with the society both inside and outside the university. This includes talking to alumni and departments, getting other societies involved in our events, and spreading the news about our events with different subject groups. Actions like recording our speaker events last term have helped to increase the accessibility of our program but there is a lot more to do! We recently set up a whatsapp group with contacts across departments where events notices are shared every week. As the outreach director you would be responsible to distribute OCS’ own event notices and feed back relevant ones to the society. We are also aiming to set up regular socials with people in this group. This role is very versatile and helps the society to keep running in every aspect. It means that you get to talk to loads of different people in Oxford and interact with other teams within OCS such as Media and Events.
Members of the Outreach team could fulfil a number of roles: e.g. Feeding back to OCS about climate related events in the department, so departments can have a platform for climate-related events within OCS. Likewise they could spread OCS event notices among students of the department, and identify options for further collaboration between these departments and OCS. Alternately they could be involved with simply covering emails, or identifying career opportunities for members and subscribers to OCS. The team would be expected to attend roughly two OCS meetings a term, but could attend more if they wish.
Members of the Outreach team could fulfil a number of roles: e.g. Feeding back to OCS about climate related events in the department, so departments can have a platform for climate-related events within OCS. Likewise they could spread OCS event notices among students of the department, and identify options for further collaboration between these departments and OCS. Alternately they could be involved with simply covering emails, or identifying career opportunities for members and subscribers to OCS. The team would be expected to attend roughly two OCS meetings a term, but could attend more if they wish.
EDUCATION TEAM
The main responsibility at the OCS Education team is running the bi-annual Oxford School of Climate change – a one-of-a-kind ‘climate 101’ course that gives a holistic introduction to several aspects of climate, from the underlying physics of climate change to climate law, economics and governance. We have reached thousands of people over the past five years with this eight-week course, with 500+ applicants globally for each of the past two schools!
The Education director is responsible for the overall organisation of the School of Climate Change in Michaelmas and Hilary terms of each year. This involves planning the curriculum, liaising with the speakers, co-ordinating logistics, media and technology, and thinking about how to develop the school further. As the education director, you have the incredible privilege and opportunity to make a significant and lasting impact on climate education. This year the School of Climate Change reached over 500 people with our hybrid programme, spanning countries across 6 continents (even Antarctica!).
The Education director is responsible for the overall organisation of the School of Climate Change in Michaelmas and Hilary terms of each year. This involves planning the curriculum, liaising with the speakers, co-ordinating logistics, media and technology, and thinking about how to develop the school further. As the education director, you have the incredible privilege and opportunity to make a significant and lasting impact on climate education. This year the School of Climate Change reached over 500 people with our hybrid programme, spanning countries across 6 continents (even Antarctica!).
Media team
The Media Team of OCS handles all things media for the society, which means creating novel eye-catching graphics for content and posters of events on Canva, putting together information cards like our term cards, and summarising what’s coming up for climate in Oxford in our newsletter each week. However it also encompasses synthesising new content too, such as informational series, blog posts, interviews or podcasts (!) as well as some easy admin of uploading our videos to our YouTube, replying to DMs and emails etc. There's lots of collaboration with all of the different teams in the society for Media, which makes it a very sociable role in the society, and you'll end up getting to know everyone in it well.
Being in the Media Team means the whole brand of OCS is at your fingertips, to be updated and kept fresh and interesting to students and the public! This of course ties in closely with Outreach, and so there is particularly high collaboration between these teams.
The Media Director holds most responsibility out of the team, with the members of the media team reporting to them for things be okay-ed before they are posted, or with any problems, and the director will designate and brief the Media Team member's jobs, as well occasionally have to pick up the slack to get the job done in time!
However members of the Media Team that aren't director can have many different roles, depending on what and how much they would like to be doing: From blog writing, photographing the route to events on our instagram, weekly news report researching, YouTube content creation, to just answering DMs, there are plenty of great opportunities or little jobs to be taken up - the level of responsibility ranging within them, and completely up to you, to be decided upon a chat with the director.
Being in the Media Team means the whole brand of OCS is at your fingertips, to be updated and kept fresh and interesting to students and the public! This of course ties in closely with Outreach, and so there is particularly high collaboration between these teams.
The Media Director holds most responsibility out of the team, with the members of the media team reporting to them for things be okay-ed before they are posted, or with any problems, and the director will designate and brief the Media Team member's jobs, as well occasionally have to pick up the slack to get the job done in time!
However members of the Media Team that aren't director can have many different roles, depending on what and how much they would like to be doing: From blog writing, photographing the route to events on our instagram, weekly news report researching, YouTube content creation, to just answering DMs, there are plenty of great opportunities or little jobs to be taken up - the level of responsibility ranging within them, and completely up to you, to be decided upon a chat with the director.
Still wondering how OCS runs?
We have a tiered system of engagement - look below to find out more.
We have a tiered system of engagement - look below to find out more.
Tier 1 - Engaged Audience
This involves
To go beyond Tier 1 you will have to be affiliated with the University of Oxford - we cannot accept anyone outside the University.
Tier 2 - Become a Society member
This involves
Also very welcome to our Open Meetings.
Tier 3 - Become a Team member
This involves
Tier 4 - Become a Core Committee Member
So, if you want to get involved with the Society there are multiple ways to do so; each tier builds on top of the other. Apply to be a team member, director or even president, through the application form linked in the button above!
We are a society for new ideas and projects.
This involves
- Signing up to our newsletter
- Attend our events or be part of the School of Climate Change
To go beyond Tier 1 you will have to be affiliated with the University of Oxford - we cannot accept anyone outside the University.
Tier 2 - Become a Society member
This involves
- Email us at oxfordclimatesociety@gmail.com to join the slack channel for members
- Flexibility in commitment to society events and teams
Also very welcome to our Open Meetings.
Tier 3 - Become a Team member
This involves
- Once on our slack channel, you'll have access to see what's going on in each team (media, education, outreach, events).
- To become a Team member join the channel, this will mean you are expected to commit to actively participating in the team and what it does, but that does not mean you can't switch to another Team.
- Come to our weekly Open Meetings on a Sunday 5-6pm at Christ Church JCR.
- Teams will have a weekly meeting, either on a Sunday using the 30 minute Team discussion time, or will have an additional time in the week that works for the majority of the group.
Tier 4 - Become a Core Committee Member
- Core committee includes Directors, of which there are two per team - while all members are able to bring forward project ideas and be engaged with the Society, the core committee are at the spearhead of the trajectory of the Society and our focus for each term.
So, if you want to get involved with the Society there are multiple ways to do so; each tier builds on top of the other. Apply to be a team member, director or even president, through the application form linked in the button above!
We are a society for new ideas and projects.