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 at St. John’s University campus during the entire leadership weekend seminar, including overnight stay. We ask that you arrive Thursday May 29 at 5:00 PM and stay until Sunday June 1 at 2:30 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://reg.hoby.org/hobyps/.
- Service Club Visit: Attend a local meeting of a Kiwanis Club, Rotary Club, Lions Club, or cooperating organization and ask them to sponsor a student to attend the seminar for $375. 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!: To help the planning committee with fundraising efforts, Junior Staff are required to fundraise a minimum of $224 to cover the cost of their stay for the weekend. However, we encourage you to fundraise even more. For each additional $224, 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 2008 HOBY NY Metro Seminar, please email Kara Friedenberg at kara-hoby@live.com and complete and return the Junior Staff application. The Deadline for applications is April 15, 2008. Download Junior Staff Application here.