Ok get your reading glasses and a coffee....
The OzSTOC leadership team as we have evolved has always used a method of selecting members to undertake roles within the club based on their passion for OzSTOC, contribution to the group, skill set and all round suitability to the role. This commenced from the conception of the club with Diesel bringing Streak into the equation.
Soon after Saaz and Brock where poached as forum Moderators to the club, followed sometime later by Whizz who assisted in an administration role and data collection as well as his Moderation duties then Pockey was added to the skill mix to add the feminine touch to the forum and for the Pillions section.
These roles were selected by the previous Leadership team in Diesel and Streak, in late 2013 Pockey and I where approached by Diesel & Streak with a proposal to take on the leadership role of OzSTOC as they wished to retire from the leadership roles and focus on other commitments, after many weeks of negotiating, soul searching and research we agreed providing Saaz would come in as a third partner for the sake of transparency as we believed having a married couple at the helm could lead to a poor decision making process in the event of a stalemate. Saaz agreed and we moved forward with the new leadership team in early 2014.
One of the early concepts we put in place was State/Territory Ride Co-ordinators, National Rally Co-ordinator and a Facebook moderator and shop caretaker. The rationale behind additional members taking on these extra positions was to lighten the load of the Leadership team and to better provide a collective focus on the clubs growth as we now were well beyond 600 members. We in the leadership roles found these appointments enriched the members OzSTOC experience based on the feedback and encouragement we have received.
We now find ourselves in a position that through natural attrition and tragedy that a void now exist in the OzSTOC team. Streak asked to be removed as a Moderator nearly 12 months ago and Whizz and Saaz are no longer with us, and in many ways have left an irreplaceable emptiness, but as an organization we must move into our future.
The previous and current leadership teams have received some backlash in the past from a minority of members about the way our organizational structure was selected and appointed into various roles within OzSTOC and further questioned the transparency of the process. To this end, we are going to utilize a very different format to hopefully alleviate future concerns about this process, but more importantly give a member/s who have a genuine desire along with those already in these varied roles to help propel OzSTOC into the future. Selecting and approaching members into these roles has been an arduous task in the past, but I'm sure the vast majority will agree that for a organization that is not a registered club with a constitution or business plan we have made good choices and selected members who's genuine focus have the best interests of the group as paramount.
So how this is going to play out.....
I'm requesting a member/s with a
genuine passion for OzSTOC, its members and our principals to consider the following offer.......
We are looking for a current member to come on board the OzSTOC leadership team with Pockey and I, to make the third voice in the clubs direction and decision making processes. The member would also become a Moderator of the clubs forum to assist Brock, Diesel, Pockey and I. This is open to ALL OzSTOC members regardless of duration of membership, forum post counts or popularity etc. But one exclusion to many members will be the tyranny of distance.....in the past the leadership team has meet a few times each year face to face in addition to RTE's to discuss many aspects of the clubs direction, the prospective member would need to be east coast based or seriously prepared to travel. Pockey, Saaz and I have had far more meetings in strange places than members realize over the last 18 months
It should be obvious but I will state it for the record, there is absolutely no remuneration package with this role or ours, in fact to be brutally honest....it will cost you money, while not a fortune its a job of love and can not be taken lightly. It will cost you sleep, it can impinge on family life and not everyone is going to like the decisions you help make, but it does have its little personal rewards occasionally when a plan comes together
If I haven't lost you yet and you think you have the passion, willingness and commitment that is considerable
send a PM to me please with your claim for the position by 15th of November 2015, Poll will go live the following day and close at the end of November 2015.
We will then post a poll on our forum so the collective membership can research and vote for the candidate who they believe to be best suited for the role. We will hide the Poll results until the completion of the Poll and then release the results to the forum for all to see the final count.
Now this is important!!.....If we get minimal participation and votes in the OzSTOC Forum Poll this will indicated to us that you wish us to remain with the status quo in regards to member position selection and have us chose a suitable and willing candidate as in the past. Further if there is only one applicant they will need to be approved by the majority, consisting of Pocket STocker, Brock, Diesel, myself and StinkyPete the National Rally Co-ordinator to give us total of 5 in the selection quorum. If we have no applicants, then we will get on with the task at hand managing the day to day activities of the club as we have been and using the best practices we have worked by in the past hopefully entice a suitable candidate into the role.
I know this all sounds quiet political for an apolitical group, but it will provide a transparency to the process that we have been told is lacking in the past.
