President

The GSA President shall be a matriculated graduate student enrolled in a graduate program at HunterCollege.

The President’s duties are to:

• Serve as the spokesperson for graduate students at HunterCollege and the GSA Executive Council, and to express their concerns and interests to HunterCollege’s Administration and Staff, students-at-large and the media;
• Preside at functions of the GSA;
• Preside at meetings of the Senate and of the Executive Council;
• Act as liaison on behalf of the GSA;
• Coordinate the allocation of supplemental funding sources;
• Supervise the proper functioning of the graduate lounge, including but not limited to coordinating all events clubs desire to set in the graduate lounge and assisting the Treasurer in hiring a Lounge Attendant;
• Serve as a member of the Auxiliary Enterprise Board (AEB); and
• Assist the Vice President of Finance with his or her duties as a member of the College Association (CA)
• Create new employee positions (contingent upon approval by the GSA Executive Council);

Vice President of University Relations

The GSA Vice President of University Relations (VPUR) shall be a matriculated graduate student enrolled in a graduate program at HunterCollege. Should the President resign, or be unable to perform, the Vice President of University Relations is appointed by the constitution, without need for election or voting, to be the Acting President for the remainder of the fiscal year.

The GSA Vice President of University Relations’ duties are to:

• Assist the President in acting as liaison on behalf of the GSA with the Dean of Students and College President;
• Act as liaison on behalf of the GSA with graduate departments, including those departments not represented by graduate clubs.
• Serve as a delegate on the Hunter College Senate.
• Serve on all relevant committees deemed appropriate by the executive board (such as Master Plan Committee and Middle States Committee)
• Attend Technology Fee Committee meetings;
• Attend University Student Senate (USS) meetings;

Commissioner for Graduate Organizations

The GSA Commissioner for Graduate organizations shall be a matriculated graduate student enrolled in a graduate program at HunterCollege.

The GSA Commissioner for Graduate Organizations' duties are to:

• Maintain a database of all graduate organizations at HunterCollege;
• Represent the main, Brookdale, Social Work, and MFA Campuses of Hunter College, including holding office hours at and/or making regular visits to these campuses;
• Act as liaison on behalf of the GSA with all graduate student organizations, including regular communication and reminders about important regulations and deadlines;
• Promote opportunities for inter-organization collaboration;
• Assist organizations in using allocated monies during the fiscal year, including assistance with the four required organization events;
• To assist the Vice President of Finance in helping graduate student organizations prepare and modify budgets and properly complete, submit and revise the required documents for reimbursements or other payments; and
• To act as mediator for graduate student organizations, assisting in organizational or leadership matters.

Vice President of Finance

The GSA Vice President of Finance shall be a matriculated graduate student enrolled in a graduate program at HunterCollege.

The GSA Vice President of Finance's duties are to:

• Disburse graduate student activity fee funds as determined by the Senate and Executive Council;
• Be responsible for the receipt of all monies;
• Maintain records of all financial transactions for GSA internal accounts and student organization budgets;
• Be responsible for the allocation of student organization budgets;
• Assist the president in the coordination and allocation of supplemental funding sources;
• Serve as a member of the College Association Board (CA).
• Assist the President in hiring a Graduate Student Lounge attendant;
• Serve as an alternate member of the Auxiliary Enterprise Board (AEB)
• Serve as needed on any additional, relevant committees at the discretion of the President.
  

Vice President of Student Affairs

The GSA Vice President of Student Affairs shall be a matriculated graduate student enrolled in a graduate program at HunterCollege.

The GSA Vice President of Student Affair's duties are to:

• Be responsible for relations with the graduate student body, in its entirety.
• Be Responsible for all outreach and coordination concerning the Graduate Investment Fund.
• Be responsible for all aspects of the G-Blasts including compiling announcements of graduate club events open to the HunterCollege community, promoting funding opportunities available to individuals and clubs and announcing important matters to the graduate student body. The Communication Officer shall forward finalized G-Blast text to the Dean’s Office for distribution approximately once each week;
• Be Responsible for the development and execution of professional and academic development events which benefit the entire graduate student body, at the discretion of the Executive Board.
• Be responsible for the timely creation, update, and maintenance of the official Hunter GSA website and on-line calendar; and blog.  If a designated GSA Webmaster exists, The VPSA will be responsible for the timely communication instructions to the Webmaster concerning the website, online calendar, and blog.
• Be responsible for the timely posting of appropriate information in the two hallway bulletin boards and the 3rd floor lobby bulletin board used by the GSA.

Commissioner for Institutional Responsibility

The GSA Commissioner for Institutional Responsibility shall be a matriculated graduate student enrolled in a graduate program at HunterCollege.

The GSA Commissioner for Institutional Responsibility's duties are to:

• Conduct an annual survey of graduate student attitudes, opinions and general awareness of issues related to social, economic and environmental sustainability, preferably in the Fall semester;
• Coordinate a planning effort with faculty, staff and students to create and implement a Sustainability Action Plan for HunterCollege;
• Coordinate and support campus-wide sustainability initiatives;
• Promote campus sustainability awareness and responsibility through presentations, demonstrations, published articles, tabling and other outreach and education events; and
• Promote opportunities for students to conduct research and further their knowledge in the field of sustainability and coordinate independent study opportunities in collaboration with HunterCollege faculty.

In addition to the GSA officers of the Executive Council, the GSA may hire the following positions to assist with the operations of the GSA:

Executive Consultant
The Executive Consultant is not an officer of the GSA. The Executive Consultant is employed by the GSA and does not have voting privileges. The Executive Consultant may be a former HunterCollege graduate student who has previously served as a GSA officer for at least one fiscal year. The serving length of this position is one semester, and can be extended for the length of one extra semester. The Executive Consultant’s duties are set by the Executive Council.

Office Manager
The Office Manager is not an officer of the GSA. The Office Manager is employed by the GSA and does not have voting privileges. The Office Manager must be a HunterCollege graduate student. The serving length of this position is one semester, and can be extended for the length of one extra semester. The Office Manager’s duties are set by the Executive Council.

Officers and employees shall be elected by the Senate at its May meeting, from is own membership, for a one-year term, subject to recall by a two-thirds vote. Vacancies shall be filled by the Executive Council pending the next regular meeting of the Senate. In the absence of Senate, incumbent officers and employees shall be elected by the predecessors of the previous fiscal year.

The following shared duties of the GSA officers and employees must be allocated in writing at the beginning of each the fiscal year:

• To respond to all phone messages in a timely manner and to all email messages by deadlines;
• To coordinate GSA meetings and keep minutes of all meetings attended, including GSA, AEB, CA, USS and Tech Fee Committee meetings;
• To read and be thoroughly familiar with graduate student club chartering and officer handbooks;
• To attend CA workshops and hold a follow up GSA workshop to assist clubs in the chartering and budgeting process;
• To submit an individual action plan at the beginning of the fiscal year to be approved by the Executive Council, followed by monthly progress reports to the Executive Council at large; and
• To maintain order in Thomas Hunter Hall, Room 218, the GSA office, including conducting an office inventory, cleaning and ordering supplies and submitting necessary work orders.