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MSC call - 10/3/2007 - closing date 23/3/2007

Call for expressions of interest in membership of the ALT Membership
Services Committee (MSC)

This is a call for expressions of interest in serving on the committee
for a three year period from May 2007.

We have 1 vacancy for membership, and we are looking to appoint
someone from Further, Adult, Work-based Learning and/or from the
Commercial Sector.

The purpose of the MSC is to oversee all of ALT's services to individual
members and to organisational members, within a framework provided by:
* the ALT Strategy;
* policies decided from time to time by the Central Executive Committee;
* the ALT budget.

The full Terms of Reference of MSC are included at the end of this
email.

Like other ALT committees MSC meets three times per year, with one
of these meetings normally conducted by telephone conference. For
members who require it, ALT will reimburse travel and reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses.

If you are interested in serving on the committee (for a maximum initial
term of 3 years) please send an expression of interest (as a plain text
email, rather than as an attachment) to Marion Samler, ALT Operations
Manager (msamler@brookes.ac.uk), by no later than 17.00 GMT on Friday 23
March 2007. All expressions of interest will be acknowledged.

When expressing an interest, please briefly respond under the following
3 headings:

1. Your current involvement in learning technology.

2. Your work or other responsibilities.

3. Why you are interested in membership of the Membership Services
Committee.

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Terms of Reference for the ALT Membership Services Committee (MSC)

Purpose

1. To oversee all of ALT's services to individual members and to
organisational members, within a framework provided by:
* the ALT Strategy;
* policies decided from time to time by the Central Executive Committee;
* the ALT budget.

Functions

1. To frame a membership services budget, for which the budget holder
will be the committee chair.

2. To advise and be advised by ALT's other committees on matters
pertaining to ALT's membership services.

3. To take decisions on any matter delegated to it by the Central
Executive Committee.

4. To maintain and develop ALT's "Overviews for Members" (which describe
our main membership services and the sort of support ALT expects from
its members).

5. To make recommendations to the Central Executive Committee on, inter
alia:
* subscription levels;
* new initiatives;
* rules and policies pertaining to membership benefits and entitlements;
* the establishment and disestablishment of Special Interest Groups;
* review membership retention levels for all categories of membership;
* the creation of new categories of membership.

6. Supported and advised by the ALT staff team to give shape to a
rolling programme of events, including conferences and workshops, for
example:
* the continued development of the Spring Conference;
* the development of one-day events and national events in partnership
with other organisations;
* events to support CMALT.

7. Supported and advised by the ALT staff team, to:
* evaluate ALT's membership services;
* conduct regular surveys of the membership, and to make recommendations
based on the results of these;
* organise the recruitment of individual members and organisational
members;
* engage individual members in the work of ALT;
* approve policies and plans pertaining to the development of the ALT
web site and other online services provided by ALT;
* develop the CMALT scheme.

Definition of services

For the avoidance of doubt services shall be taken to include membership
benefits and entitlements with the exception of:
* ALT publications (which are the responsibility of the Publications
Committee);
* the ALT annual conference, for which the ALT-C Programme Executive
Committee (on which the Membership Services Committee will be
represented  ex-officio by its Chair and Vice Chair) is responsible to
the Central Executive Committee;
* benefits and entitlements for organisations that sponsor ALT, whether
or not these are members (which are the responsibility of the Central
Executive Committee);
* benefits and entitlements for Honorary Life Members (which are the
responsibility of the Central Executive Committee).

[Final version. Approved by the ALT Central Executive Committee on
1/2/2006]
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