Rotary Australia World Community Service
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Rotary Australia World Community Service
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Duties of a Team Leader
To contact the members of the team, prior to departure from Australia, in order to ensure that each team member is aware of their task and confident of his/her travel arrangements.
To ensure that the team is as fully briefed as possible before departure. This will involve setting up a meeting at a time and place convenient to the majority of team members. The briefing should be conducted the team leader.
Whilst representing Rotary overseas, to ensure that all team members, whether Rotarians or Non- Rotarians, act in a manner which is to the credit of and in the interests of Rotary International. (For this reason a team leader will always be a Rotarian).
To be open to opportunities, both at home and abroad, to talk about, present, write and otherwise publicise Project Volunteers and its objects, and to ensure that team members support this aim.
To act as liaison for the team with the recipient organisation, whilst on the project.
To ensure that the needs of all team members are considered in the overall plan.
To ensure that the project proceeds at an orderly pace, (in so far as you are able to control the situation), or decide if the project must be temporarily abandoned.
To advise as soon as possible the Project Co-ordinator of any major problems during the project, so that later teams can be warned of particular difficulties and the likelihood of the need for additional teams other than those scheduled to complete the project.
To complete a written report in the prescribed manner and ensure that it is forwarded to the Project Co-ordinator, within 4 weeks of the return of the team to Australia.
To ensure that at least one member of the team takes a camera and that the Project Co-ordinator receives 4 photos of the project so that a pictorial record may be compiled of Project Volunteer projects.
To act as an arbitrator in the event of a dispute between team members.
In the event of the illness of a team member, to ensure that adequate steps are taken to treat the illness; in the event of severe illness to ensure that the Project Co-ordinator is informed so that relatives in Australia may be informed and the Project Volunteer Committee is advised, so that, if necessary, urgent repatriation to Australia may be effected.
To advise the Project Co-ordinator of any occurrence of Malaria in any team member.
To accept other instructions, as may be from time to time, issued by Project Volunteer Regional Committee.
For further information contact either:
Chairman, Eastern Region, PDG Alex Gow
or
Webmaster