Parent Help List

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As the level of performance of the choirs improves and the choir receives more and more local, national and international attention, my need for you to help also increases. I would like your help to develop a list of jobs that individuals could volunteer for. Please comment with things that you think would be helpful or ways that you would like to help. Some of these will require a greater amount of commitment, time and equipment than others.  Check back over time as I will be adding to it.

Videographer: Someone with digital equipment that can set up their own camera to take digital video of choir performances, edit them and give them to me to post to YouTube or other sites.
requirements: have your own camera and tripod, have editing software and disc burner to get me the data files.
Time commitment: attend all concerts and special events
Membership: Any choir parent or relative.

Manager of Wardrobe Malfunction Prevention: Be on hand to handle uniform problems, be the person with the extra uniforms, have safety pins etc and look at the kids on stage for serious wardrobe problems.  I want the kids to know they should talk to you at performances and filming sessions if they need this kind of help.

This position could also be responsible for helping with Uniform order taking and placing. 

Requirements: attend all concerts and filming sessions and observe students in uniform without taking rehearsal time.
Time Requirements: Attend all concerts
Membership: Choir Parent

Concert House Manager: Person in charge of making sure doors are opened and closed at correct times, programs passed out, directing audience members where to sit, answer questions about bathroom facilities… At video shoots, protecting the integrity of the rehearsal space.
Requirements:  independent adult.
Time requirements: Arrive 35 minutes prior to all events, solicit helpers to usher
Membership, Any choir parent

Concert Reminder: This may seem silly to many of you that don’t have ADD but this would be a huge help. This person would email me reminders about any unusual things in the choir calendar a week or two ahead of time. They could also use the choir email list to remind parents. If there is a combined rehearsal instead of the regular sectional, if there is an audition date coming up, if there is a concert coming up, fundraiser deadlines, … bam, you send me an email.
Requirements: Internet and email access, a bossy personality. Know and review the choir calendar and blog posts about schedules.
Time Requirements: A few minutes each week reviewing the schedule, checking the blog and emailing me.
Membership: Choir parent
 

Program Roster Coordinator: This person would make sure choir rosters are up to date and would submit the current roster including all auditioned choir members names properly spelled and the approved amount of each name used for the printed programs.
Requirements:  Internet, email, spreadsheet experience
Time requirements: A few hours early in the year, a couple hours 2 weeks before each concert to update the list.
Membership: choir parent preferred.

Volunteer Recognition Coordinator: I am soooo grateful to all of you who have helped this year. I am terrible at letting you know how much I appreciate you because as soon as one project is over I am buried in the next. When I was 12 I was the heir for a fairly wealthy aunt who had no kids of her own. When I graduated from High School she sent me $20. When I didn’t send her a thank-you she found a new more appreciative heir. What she didn’t know was how much I loved and respected her. Because I have a short circuit in my timely response wiring I didn’t let her know in a way she could understand. How many of you feel unfulfilled because you didn’t receive a proper thank-you in the way you expected? I need someone to put the thank-you card in my hand, and deliver it or mail it. Every year I spend hours writing personal messages in Christmas cards that I never send.  This is hugely important and an area I really can’t do myself.
Requirements: Someone who has ever felt under-appreciated. Organized people preferred.
Time Requirements: Buying thank-you cards (no cost to you), filling out addresses and mailing cards. Coming in to school to get me to do my part.
Membership:  Choir Parent

Social Event Coordinator.  We need to get the choir together for something social like skating at Skatetown. 

Others:
Lawyer with Copyright Experience

Set Construction
Light Booth Coordinator
Carnation Sale at Concerts Coordinator
Concessions sale at Concert Coordinator
Ticket Manager for Concert
Volunteer coordinator
Supervisor of students at all school concerts.