Junior Staff Responsibilities
Junior staff are an essential part of the HOBY experience. You will be expected throughout the weekend to integrate ambassadors, help facilitate discussions, keep ambassadors enthusiastic, serve as a role model, and perform basic tasks to help ensure a smooth and successful program.
As part of the junior staff, you are required to stay on campus during the entire leadership weekend seminar, including overnight stay. We ask that you arrive Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 5:00 PM and stay until Sunday, June 6, 2009 at 3:30 PM.
Junior Staff Prerequisites
As you know, the planning committee works very hard to fundraise $40k - $50k per year for a seminar and we need your help. The cost for a student and staff member to attend HOBY, including room and board, facilities, and food is $224. HOBY Nationals then requires an additional $150 fee per student. Although we ask the school to cover the $150 fee, many schools do not have the funds to do so. In order to ensure equal opportunities to all schools, we are trying to pay this cost whenever possible. As you can see, this can be a cost of up to $375 per student.
To be considered as a member of the HOBY junior staff, the following perquisites are required.
- Volunteer Hours – Volunteerism is a core foundation of the HOBY organization. All Junior Staff are required to have logged at least 100 hours of volunteer service over the past year. Please log your service hours and description at http://hoby.org/alumni.php
- Service Club Visit – Attend a local meeting of a Kiwanis Club, Rotary Club, Lions Club, etc. and ask them to sponsor a student to attend the seminar for $350 (which includes the $150 registration fee and the $200 cost of Adelphi University). These organizations are very interested in HOBY but want to hear first-hand from someone that has experienced the program. You are not required to obtain the student sponsorship to be a Junior Staff, but you are required to attend a meeting. We want to get the HOBY name out there and let people know the great things about HOBY.
- Fundraise! Fundraise! Fundraise! – The planning committee works very hard to fundraise $40,000 to $50,000 per year for a seminar and we need your help. The cost for a student and staff member to attend HOBY, including room and board, facilities, and food is $200. HOBY Nationals then requires an additional $150 fee per student. Although we ask the school to cover the $150 fee, many schools do not have the funds to do so. In order to ensure equal opportunities to all schools, we are trying to pay this cost whenever possible. As you can see, this can be a cost of up to $350 per student.
Junior Staff are required to fundraise enough to cover the cost for a student of $350 to stay for the weekend. However, we encourage you to fundraise even more. For each additional $350, we are able to invite an ambassador who would not have been able to experience HOBY otherwise. Our intent is not to discourage you from applying. We have a more challenging goal than ever, and we know that your leadership can help us meet that goal!
Junior Staff Application
If you are interested in being a Junior Staff at the 2010 HOBY NY Metro Seminar, please email Anton Konev at konevforcouncil@gmail.com and complete and return the Junior Staff application. The Deadline for applications is April 17, 2010.Download Junior Staff Application here.