Ministry Description -
Seafarers Centre Manager
and Assistant Seafarers’ Centre Manager
Adopted by Board of Directors 11 March 2009
Appointment
The Chaplain appoints the Seafarers’ Centre Manager and Assistant Seafarers’ Centre Manager for a one-year renewable appointment with the term running from one Annual General Meeting to the next AGM.
The Board of Directors will review the position as the need arises.
The role of the Seafarers Centre Manager is to ensure that the Seafarers Centre is clean, straightened up and ready for Watch Keepers to host seafarers, and that the storage room is straightened up. The Seafarers’ Centre Manager will work with volunteers who are assigned to specific tasks at the Centre.
The Assistant Seafarers’ Centre Manager will work with the Seafarers’ Centre Manager to accomplish his/her duties, and fill in when the Seafarers’ Centre Manager is away or unable to work.
The Seafarers Centre Manager and Assistant Seafarers’ Centre Manager can claim for mileage.
1. Work with volunteers:
· Bags for ships
· Books & Magazines
· Christmas Bags
· Cleaner
· Clothing
· Pop
· Recycling cans
· Wednesday lunch
2. Get mail weekly and distribute.
3. Check supply of bags of magazines for ships weekly and ensure sufficient bags are made up.
4. Ensure sufficient phone cards are activated weekly: check supply of phone cards, activate, do the accounting for and order more cards as required.
5. Check stamps weekly and purchase as required.
6. Check supply of pop weekly and ensure pop is purchased as required.
7. Check petty cash boxes weekly and ensure good to go.
8. First week of a new month, complete Monthly Statistics Worksheet for the previous month.
9. Incidental tasks as noted in Office Handbook Checklist.
Please refer to notes in Office Handbook for directions on tasks.
The Seafarers Centre Manager and Assistant Seafarers’ Centre Manager are accountable to the Chaplain or in his absence the Chair of the Board of Directors.
In the absence of both the Seafarers Centre Manager and the Assistant Seafarers’ Centre Manager, the Chaplain assumes the Seafarers Centre Manager’s responsibilities.