Team Leadership Roles

Team Leader

This team member is like a project manager responsible for ensuring the team runs smoothly. The team leader's duties may include helping new team members get up to speed, facilitating team communication, reminding members of deadlines, and picking up slack where needed. A team leader must have good organizational skills, work well with others, and maintain a positive and helpful attitude.

Webmaster & Documentarian

The webmaster/documentarian maintains your team's online presence and important documents, including notes from key meetings. The webmaster/documentarian will update your team's profile on this website and write up a short summary of your project should your team be featured in the Project Spotlight. The webmaster should have good informational writing skills but need not have technical skills.

Financial Officer

The treasurer is responsible for creating and managing the team budget. Duties include filing your team budget with Global TIES, making purchase requests, updating the budget, and monitoring team spending. A good treasurer should be accurate, financially responsible, and highly ethical.

Partner Liaison

Your team should appoint/elect a partner liaison to facilitate communication with your nonprofit/NGO partner. This team member will be responsible for fielding all client and team member questions and serving as the central point of contact in the relationship with the partner. Duties will include regular communication with the partner and scheduling team-partner meetings. A good partner liaison communicates clearly orally and in writing and is willing to juggle several communication requests at once.

Subteam Leader

Some teams employ subteams. The subteam leader is responsible for tracking subteam progress, helping subteam members if they are stuck on a problem, and interfacing with other subteams and with the team leader. A good subteam leader is knowledgeable in that subteam's subject area, willing to help, and highly communicative.