Selection chair & committee members

The Selection chair and committee is tasked to organize Selection day, usually a Sunday, 8-5pm, in late January or February.  During this day, applicants for the upcoming summer travel programs are interviewed, have lunch, participate in 3-4 hours of activities.  Below are tasks:

1.  Call Old Town/Orono Y and choose selection date (ensure that Connie and Lee-Local leadership chairs can attend), request rental (free) of their 1st floor, sign rental contract. 
2. Coordinate with treasurer to write a check for $100 to the Y, to give as thanks and a donation to their annual drive--attach with thank you note.
3. Recruit board members, CISV alumni/parents, past leader (if possible) , an outside "non-CISV" person (if possible) to be interviewers of participants and leaders
4. Coordinate with our chapter event planners to host lunch
5. Collaborate with Applications chair to ensure all interviewers have applications materials for the applicants they will be interviewing
6. Organize materials for each interviewer--interview questions, evaluation forms, etc
7.  The selection committee makes final selections and gives its choices to the program chairs and to the adult board.
8. In conjunction with the program chairs, contact all applicants to tell them whether they have been selected.Usually this is done via email, via an invitation/welcome letter, occasionally some phone contact is done.  Keep a list of alternates in case additional program invitations are received.
9. The Selection Chair/committee prepares a brief report at the completion of selection to outline changes or suggestions for the next year. Add to the binder & electronic file of selection materials to use for the following year.