Dacorum Sub Aqua Club

This post needs a person with leadership skills:

• needs to get the job done
• encourage and develop others
• promote teamwork. 

Able to identify problems and opportunities early and take action avoid or achieve them. Able to find out what members want. Able to promote the club.

• Aims to:
  • represent and promote the club externally
  • maintain the unity of the club and committee
  • ensure the committee and the club are effective
  • co-ordinate the activities of the committee
  • recruit members
• By:
  • chairing club, committee and general meetings to ensure they achieve their purpose, are fair and are brief
  • representing, promoting and negotiating with external bodies the club deals with
  • arranging Try Dives
  • advertising for recruits
  • meeting, greeting and showing around potential recruits
• Difficulties to overcome:
  • politics
  • inertia
  • confusion
  • inexperience and lack of organisational skills on the committee

This post needs an experienced diver and dive trip organiser who is ideally an Advanced Diver and a Nationally Qualified Instructor. This is a "lead from the front" and "by example" job, which is why its difficult to do.

• Aims to:
  • ensure diving safety
  • ensure quality of training
  • organise the year's dive programme
  • keep up with and communicate BSAC training system changes and methods
• By:
  • checking skills of divers trained by the club
  • arranging check dives for new members who have been trained elsewhere
  • SALTing new members who have been trained elsewhere
  • delegating dive trip organisation to marshals
  • checking divers have the experience and skills for each particular dive trip
  • monitoring qualifications and experience of instructors and dive leaders
  • communicating the lessons learned from accidents
• Difficulties to overcome:
  • diver indiscipline and lack of training
  • dealing with the aftermath of incidents
  • shortage of dive trip organisers
  • preventing people without medicals from diving
  • shortage of experienced buddies and instructors

This post needs a diver with awareness of diver training equipment. The equipment officer need not actually maintain equipment herself or himself - the skilled jobs should be be done by a competent professional.

• Aims to
  • Arrange servicing and replacement of defective kit
  • Administer the hire of training equipment
• By:
  • Recognising and fixing technical problems with the help of the team.
  • Arranging competative quotes for all servicing.
• Difficulties to overcome:
  • Regular workload of servicing kit
  • High demand when courses and try dives begin
  • Cannot use the equipment himself so relies on others to report problems

This post needs an established and trusted member who has book keeping or accounting knowledge.

• Aims to:
  • Be aware of clubs financial position
  • Manage the club's bank account
  • Ensure transparency of the club's financial dealings
• By:
  • Ensuring the correctness of all agreements the club makes which involve transfer of money or assets
  • Keeping accounts
  • Have the accounts audited annually
• Difficulties to overcome:
  • Liaison with many spenders of club money
  • Care needed in negotiating and committing club to costs
  • Careful collection and distribution of money

This post needs a tenacious and enthusiastic person.

• Aims to:
  • Administer the work of the committee and other formal meetings.
  • Deal with club correspondence.
• By:
  • arranging club, committee and general meetings.
  • producing and distribute the agenda of meetings.
  • writing and distribute minutes of meetings.
  • administering voting, quorum and chair of meetings.

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• Aims to:
  • DSAC's Policy is to encourage all members to take a responsible attitude towards safeguarding the welfare of all vulnerable people.
  • where young people are concerned, our policy is that people who have significant involvement with young people and vulnerable adults should voluntarily request a CRB disclosure to confirm there is no underlying reason to prevent such contact.
• By:
  • Applying for CRB checks on all required members.

This post needs a person who is highly motivated and has a great creative mind.

• Aims to:
  • Promote DSAC as a club
  • Arrange fund raising activities
• By:
  • Arranging Scuba awarness days for the general public.
  • Contacting the local press when we have events.
  • Networking with other clubs.

This post needs a very tenacious and enthusiastic person. This job may be combined with other jobs on the committee or given to a member who not on the committee.

• Aims to:
  • Arrange social events.
• Difficulties to overcome:
  • Social lethargy of members.
  • Date clashes with other important events.

This post needs a very enthusiastic person with great flare who can collect and collate articles from all members.

• Aims to:
  • Publish a magazine every 3 months.
• Difficulties to overcome:
  • Getting members to put pen to paper.
  • Meeting detline for the publication.

This post needs a person with good IT skills and a wide range of IT knowledge.

• Aims to:
  • Provide club information on the club web site.
  • Ensure all information on the web site is up to date and accurate.
  • Use the internet and web site as a tool to all club members.
  • Understand the needs of club members.


• By:
  • Adding information about events that hapen within the club.
  • Web based applications (calendar, forums, images of dive trips).
  • Promote the club web site on the internet trying to recruit new members.
  
  


• Difficulties to overcome:
  • Members PC / IT skills.
  • Fear of the internet.
  • Awillingness for change.

This post needs an experienced diver and instructor who is ideally a Nationally Qualified Instructor and an Advanced Diver but not essentially

• Aims to:
  • Give members the lectures and pool training they need.
  • Provide a high standard of courses and instruction.
  • Keep up with and implement BSAC training system changes and methods.
• By:
  • Developing a pool of instructors and dive leaders to help.
  • Organising courses - instructors, venues, kit, syllabus.
  • Organising pool training: kit, instructors and students.
  • Arranging independent testing of students.
  • Being responsible for the use of the training pools.
• Difficulties to overcome:
  • Huge effort needed to organise and instruct on courses.
  • Shortage of instructors and dive leaders.
  • Lack of commitment and awareness of difficulties from new recruits.

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• Aims to:
  • Get club members trained when required.
  • Ensure that there are enough Open Water Instructors to train or club members.
• By:
  • Matching the trainees with suitable OWIs.

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• Aims to:
  • To assist, help and train any club member how to use the compressor.
  • Do a weekly maintenance check on the oil and filters and make shore that its running smoothly.
  • Make shore the compressor has its annual maintenance check over pressure valves or tested for insurance and air purity test.
• By:
  • Carrie out any minor repairs with in our capability to do so.
  • Induction coarse to show memebrs how to operate the compressor safely for air fills only.

This post needs a qualified boathandler and VHF radio operator with some mechanical and electrical skills. Ideally, he or she is technically aware of trailers, brakes, car electrics, outboard engines, propeller selection, boat electronics, GRP hull maintenance and the seagoing and emergency equipment needed by a RIB. The boat officer need not actually maintain each part of the boat herself or himself - the big or difficult jobs should be be done by a competent professional.

• Aims to:
  • Ensure maximum availability of the boat at times members need it.
  • Ensure the boat is seaworthy (buoyancy, propulsion and safety equipment).
  • Arrange servicing and repair.
  • Administer the hiring of the boat and collection of fees.
  • Checking qualifications of hirers.
• By:
  • Taking bookings and collecting fees.
  • Checking boat out and in.
  • Recognising and fixing technical problems.
  • Managing professional maintenance of the boat's equipment.
• Difficulties to overcome:
  • Regular workload at odd hours checking boat in and out.
  • Effort needed to keep boat in good order.
  • Regular wear and tear on boat specially as it ages.
  • High cost and importance of boat equipment and maintenance.

This post needs a person who can be relied on to issue and maintain the club equipment assets.

• Aims to:
  • Ensure all equipment is in good working order.
  • Be available for all club members to pickup and drop off equipment.
  • Inform the equipment officer if any serviceing needs to be done to the equipment.
• By:
  • Checking all maintenance scedules are carried out within our guidlines.
  • Arranging for equipment to get to the service centre.

This post needs a person who is prepared to take a lot of time chasing people and putting together complex proposals for grant applications.

• Aims to:
  • Create a revenue for the club via grants.
  • Approach all bodies who can award grants.
• By:
  • Contacting local councils.
  • Liasing with other clubs to find out how they get grants.

This post needs a tenacious and enthusiastic person.

• Aims to:
  • Collect club and BSAC subscriptions.
  • Organise membership of BSAC.
  • Administratively introduce recruits to the club.
  • Provide new joiners with their BSAC books.
• By:
  • billing and collecting subscriptions.
  • being main point of contact with BSAC admin.
  • keeping members informed of the cost and benefits of BSAC membership.
  • meet, greet and organise recruits on their first visits.
• Difficulties to overcome:
  • administrative and financial hibernation of members.

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• Aims to:
  • Maintain diving qualification and training records.
  • Maintain records of diving medicals.
• By:
  • Check blue book each time qualification obtained.
  • Record qualification and course records
  • Collect and record medical records
  • Alert the Diving Officer to divers without medicals
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