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CVC Staff Application

Application for CVC-High School Staff

Just complete this form. Click on Submit when ready to send.

Deadline: Your application must be received no later than May 15th. Applicants will be contacted for an interview.

For a description of duties for staff positions, click here

Name:    

Phone #:                       Email:

Fall address:       

Positions applied for (please choose at least one or rank preference):

Committee Staff

First:                                 Second:                              Third:
              

 

Conference Services Staff

First:                                                          Second:
            

Please choose the committee you would like to staff. If you have no preference, check both:

UN Security Council

North Atlnatic Treaty Organisation

In a two page (maximum) cover letter, please address the following points:

• Why do you want the Positions you have applied for?

• Evaluate your communication skills.

• What contributions could you bring to the conference?

• What leadership and teaching/educating experience do you have?

• Please describe your leadership style.

• Describe your ability to meet deadlines. As a member of Staff you will have a number of deadlines over the

summer (most notably, Background Guides posted August 1st).

• What would you do if you could not meet a deadline?

Please include your resume detailing your Model UN experience, including Conferences you have attended. Please detail countries represented and committees simulated as a delegate as well as any experiences as chair, rapporteur, or conference staff. In lieu of Model UN experience, please detail related activities and experiences (i.e. Model Congress, Boys/Girls State).

Also, include a writing sample and please include when it was written and for what purpose.

All of this should be in one file, preferably in  .doc format with cover letter first, resume second, short description of writing sample, and then writing sample.

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Please double check entries and make sure they are correct.

After you click submit, you will be taken back to the WCUMUN homepage.
Staff Duties
Please note that ALL staff will be required to write over the summer. You will have to be at the WCU campus for the weekend of the conference. You will also be required to attend staff training the weekend before the conference.

Committee Staff

Committee Director (Model UN experience required): As the Committee Director you will primarily be responsible for researching and writing a Background Guide for your committee over the summer (before August 1st). You would be required to write 1,300 or more words for your Background Guide through a review and editing process with the rest of the staff. You will help guide your Assistant Director as they write part of the Background Guide along with you. Most Committee Directors will also serve as chair of their Committee during the conference. Committee Directors will be ultimately responsible for reviewing the substantive materials of their Committee.

Assistant Director (Model UN experience preferred): As the Assistant Director you will primarily be responsible for researching and writing a portion of your Background Guide for your committee over the summer (before August 1st). You would be required to write 800 or more words for your Background Guide through a review and editing process with the rest of the staff. Most Assistant Directors will also help manage the dais of their Committee during the conference. Assistant Directors will help review the substantive materials of their Committee.

Rapporteur (No Model UN experience required): As the Rapporteur you will primarily be responsible for maintaining organization on the dais. You will work with one of the Committee Staff to ensure that the dais is well managed. You would be required to write as needed. During the Conference you would take roll, keep the Speakers List, and record votes as well as work with Conference Services Staff.

Conference Services Staff

Director of Conference Services (must be member of WCUMUN): As the Committee Director you will primarily be responsible for organizing Conference Services along with a member of the Senior Staff prior to the CVC, and for running Conference Services during the conference. During the Conference you would administer Conference Services for Delegates, Faculty Advisors and Conference Staff. You would be required to write 600 or more words for Conference Services documents as well as to help write Background Guides as needed.

Assistant Director of Conference Services (No Model UN experience required): As the Assistant Director of Conference Services will assist in the operation of Conference Services during the conference. You would be required to write as needed.