Do you want to make an aesthetic Instagram feed? Do you want to keep GCES relevant? If you answered no to both of these questions, this position is for you!

 The VP Marketing leads the marketing team, Director Marketing and Director Design, to manage GCES’s socials to increase the association’s reach and engagement. They also plan the marketing calendar for the whole year to make sure all events are covered and relationships are maintained with other associations. 

Opportunities:

• Lead and manage the Marketing Team
• Develop Marketing Plans and strategies throughout the year to increase GCES’s reach and engagement
• Ensure proper coverage of GCES Events through pictures, videos, and more
• Take care of all blurbs and messages required for social media posts, events, and more
• Work with the VP Sponsorship to create and manage the Sponsorship Package
• Form relationships with other associations for outreach and collective marketing
• Design and execute all merchandise (swag) purchases and sales throughout the year
• Support the VP Events in their marketing needs
• Communicate all marketing for GCES Events to Iliada 
  
  

Skills:

• Strong leadership and delegation skills
• Proficient in Canva, Photoshop, InDesign, or other editing software
• Proficiency in both English and French
• Keen eye for design and creativity
• Up to date with pop-culture and marketing trends

Would you describe yourself as a natural treasurer, in the likes of Mr. Krabs (minus the greedy, miserly, money-hungry, and sometimes hypocritical part)? If so, this is the position for you! 

The VP Finance is in charge of the cash flow of the association. They approve transactions, manage the budget, take care of reimbursements, create invoices, manage sponsorship money and more. If you’re good with numbers, this position is for you!

Opportunities:

• Responsible for accounting all expenses and receivables of GCES
• Control and balance all cash flow and maintain an organized record of such
• Write and submit the annual requested budget to the ECA
• Manage cash box requisitions and transactions
• Manage the reimbursement of council-paid items with the ECA
• Work with the VP Finance of the ECA on all financial-related aspects of the society and ensure that GCES follows ECA’s Financial Policies
• Expected to maintain GCES’s journal entries and process bank deposits effectively
• Create spend reports based on current spending and previous fiscal year
  
  

Skills: 

• Understanding and interest in accounting principles
• Excellent Excel skills, Google Sheets
• Attention to detail

Do you have what it takes to message Jeff Bezos and ask him to speak at your next event? If you’re open to LinkedIn DMing and sending lots of emails, this one’s for you!

The VP External is in charge of growing and maintaining relationships with industry contacts in fields related to entrepreneurship. Whether it’s connecting with our network of entrepreneurs, finding judges for UpStart or reaching out to keynote speakers, they are always spreading the word about GCES. 

Opportunities:

• Act as the liaison between GCES and other entrepreneurship societies/organizations from other schools or within different faculties at Concordia.
• Communicate with external organizations when requesting guest speakers or other partnerships
• Seek new opportunities or partnerships for GCES in the form of a network of contacts (business contacts, instructional contacts, other student-groups and faculty contacts), and consistently act to maintain these relationships 
• Organize the judging for UpStart alongside the Events team,
• Be in charge of coordinating with guest speakers, judges, and other external contacts during the UpStart Competition, and other GCES activities
  
  

Skills: 

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Enjoy networking and having meetings with professionals
• Driven and proactive
• Proficiency in both English and French

Do you have a love/hate relationship with WordPress? If you fall more on the “love” side of things, this position is for you!

The VP Technology is in charge of maintaining and updating our GCES website. They also take care of any tech infrastructures GCES uses during our events. 

Opportunities:

• Manage website, write quality code and innovate on the digital presence of GCES.
• Collaborate with designers to craft our main website and build modern interactive web apps
• Create content for the website in conjunction with the Marketing Team and/or other Executive(s). 
• Build data dashboards to keep track of important data and statistics (for e.g. participation of people at events, etc.)
• Help with technology infrastructure during UpStart competition and other events
  
  

Skills: 

• Web-Development experience (HTML, CSS, JS, WordPress)
• Knowledge of IT principles
• Keen eye for quality design and creativity

Do you think you can land a sponsorship deal with Audible and NordVPN? Or something like that? If so, this is the position for you! We’re looking for someone who loves finding and speaking with really interesting people and isn’t shy to reach out. 

The Director of Sponsorship works closely with the VP Sponsorship to grow and maintain relationships with potential sponsors. If you are not shy and you love finding and speaking with really interesting people and aren’t shy to reach out, this is the position for you!

Opportunities:

• Actively and continuously seek external sponsorship opportunities as well as maintains long-term partnerships with the sponsors. 
• Maintain a master contact list with list of potential sponsors and outreach progress
• Maintain and update the Sponsorship Package. 
• In charge of coordinating with the Events team for any in-kind sponsorship requests.
  
  

Assets: 

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent work ethic and persistants
• Enjoy networking and having meetings with professionals
• Proficiency in both English and French

Do you think flash mobs are relevant in 2023? Do you always like your own posts? If you answered no to both of these questions, this position is for you!

The Director of Marketing assists the VP Marketing in developing and maintaining GCES’s image through socials and newsletters. This includes writing blurbs, posting on social media and covering events. 

Opportunities:

• Work with the VP Marketing to develop GCES’s brand image.
• Write and submit communications for the ECA newsletter.
• Maintains and updates the GCES Website, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social-media pages including Instagram and Tiktok. 
• Takes care of the GCES Discord 
• Answer and reply to comments or messages on social media
• Take care of all blurbs and messages required for social media posts, events, and etc.
• Create the Facebook events for GCES events (works with VP Events to ensure description, date and time, etc.) and invites all potentially interested persons
• Promote GCES’s social activities among the Concordia community.
  
  

Skills:

• Proficient in Canva, Photoshop, InDesign, or other editing software
• Good writing and communication skills
• Keen eye for design and creativity
• Up to date with pop-culture and marketing trends

Can you organize a party in less than a day? Can you come up with ideas we’ve never seen before? If so, this might be the right position for you!

The Director Social is part of the events team and works alongside the VP Events to plan our Social Events! This includes Lizard Lounges, Wine & Cheese, and Networking Events. The Director Social also takes part in planning UpStart with the rest of the Events Team. If you’re creative and want to plan events, this position is for you ! 

Opportunities:

• Assist the VP Events in event planning and management
• Contact and coordinate with external vendors including caterers, photographers, venues, etc. 
• Build schedules and task breakdowns for all social events
• Collaborate with fellow associations for Lizard Lounges and social events! 
• Organize the annual UpStart Competition and plan the UpStart networking cocktail.
  
  

Skills:

• Creative and outgoing personality
• Effective negotiation skills
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Management of priorities and schedules with tight deadlines

Do you think learning is fun? Can you come up with ideas we’ve never seen before? If so, this might be the right position for you!

The Director Academics is part of the events team and works alongside the VP Events to plan our Academic Events! This includes our entrepreneurship competition UpStart, workshops, entrepreneurship talks and more! If you want to make an impact on student’s entrepreneurial lives, this position is for you! 

Opportunities:

• Assist the VP Events in event planning and management
• Contact and coordinate with external vendors including venues, etc. 
• Build schedules and task breakdowns for all academic events
• Collaborate with VP External to acquire speakers for workshops and keynotes.
• Organize the annual UpStart Competition and plan the UpStart workshops.
• Create the registration forms and eventbrites for events

Skills:

• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Creative skills to visualize the events.
• Management of priorities and schedules with tight deadlines

Do you have what it takes to elevate our club’s image? 

The Director of Design works alongside the VP Marketing to create the content for our events and socials. They design our flyers, swags, banners, social media posts and much more. This position is open to non-engineering students! 

Opportunities:

• Working with the VP of Marketing and Director of Marketing to develop GCES’s brand image.
• Creates all required images for the promotion of events and activities organized by the society.
• Designs and manages all merchandise (swag) purchases and sales throughout the year. Supports the VP Events in their design needs.
• Agrees to respect the intellectual property and ideas of fellow students who may speak with the council member in confidence.

Skills:

• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Creative skills to visualize the events.
• Management of priorities and schedules with tight deadlines