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-===== Short descriptions of TiTe's officer positions ======
+====== TiTe's officer positions =======
-==== Host's / Hostess' helper ====
+===== What is an officer? =====
-As a host's / hostess' helper, you will organize sauna evenings together with the host(ess) during the year.
+The officers of the Tampereen TietoTeekkarikilta, known as toimarit, work together with TiTe’s board. The difference compared to the actual board is not significant, nor is it very noticeable in day-to-day activities. At the general meeting, the guild elects a chair candidate, who in turn proposes the guild’s board. After the turn of the year, this board selects the officials based on applications and interviews.
-==== International Fuksi Captain ====
+There are many different types of official positions, and they are not set in stone. You can even propose a new position! Being an officer is an easy way to experience how the guild operates behind the scenes and to contribute your part. The workload varies slightly between roles, and some positions can also be combined. There are no prerequisites, enthusiasm is a bonus but attitude is what matters most!
-This role is a new one for 2023, you will be responsible for the integration of international fuksis and main person for international tutors. You will act as a Fuksi Captain, so you will gain the benefits from the Fuksi Council! We need a person who is interested and motivated about getting the fuksis integrated to the teekkari culture and working with international students should be seamless! English is a big benefit when applying! You have to be at least a second year student to apply to this position.
+==== Educational Politics Officer ====
+The Educational Politics Officer (kopo-apu) works closely as a team with the Head of Educational Policy (kopo-vastaava). Together, they organize events (e.g., MOSKA, Kopo Pizza, guild coffees), represent the members in educational policy matters, handle study-related feedback and respond to it, participate in meetings of educational and social policy representatives both at the faculty level and within TREY, and maintain contact with the faculty as well as TiTe’s student representatives in administration.
+The assistant often also maintains the exam archive and participates in organizing study groups.
+==== Host/Hostess & Host's / Hostess' helper ====
+The duties of the Host/Hostess include taking care of the arrangements for the guild’s sauna evenings. Other responsibilities include, for example, organizing the guild’s summer gathering and handling the coffee and doughnut service at general meetings. For sauna evenings, the Teekkarisauna Mörrimöykky is usually reserved. Once on site, the host/hostess ensures that the sauna and hot tub are warm and that there is enough refreshments for everyone. TiTe has several sauna events each year, and the host’s workload is concentrated around these events and the evenings may be long. Host/hostess and the helper work as a team and can decide on the division of duties.
 ==== Alumni officer ====
-Alumni officer organizes events, such as after works, for our graduated students. As a alumni officer you will also get to work in close contact with our alumni organization, TiTTu.
+The Alumni officer plans and carries out activities for TiTe members who have already graduated or are about to graduate, together with TiTe’s alumni association, TiTTu. So you don’t have to handle alumni matters alone anymore but do it as a team! The Alumni officer serves as a bridge between the guild’s students and its alumni. The most important thing in this role is an interest in the alumni community and its activities!
-==== System administrator ====
+==== System Administrator ====
-Keeps up TiTe´s information systems and leads a IT-commitee.
+TiTe System Administrator develops the guild’s systems, fixes what is broken, and invents new solutions when inspiration strikes. In other words, the role covers everything related to the guild’s IT infrastructure, including maintaining, servicing, and updating the vending machine system; maintaining the cash register; maintaining and developing the guild’s website; managing AWS services; and handling the guild’s accounts across various online services. This position provides solid system administration experience, which is sure to be valuable later in your career. Many former IT Coordinators end up spending several hours a day turning down job offers.
-==== System administrator officer ====
+==== Assistant System administrator ====
-System administrator officer helps guild's system administrator in keeping up and updating TiTe's information systems.
+TiTe System Administrator has plenty of small tasks, and the Assistant sysadmin helps with everything related to the guild’s IT systems while learning the secrets of the infrastructure.
-==== Graphic artist  ====
+Depending on the year, the Assistant sysadmin may also be responsible for organizing the guild’s LAN party.
-Graphic artist is responsible for doing the graphics for TiTe's events and making TiTe's guild magazine together with the editor-in-chief.
-==== TEK contact person ====
+The Assistant sysadmin has excellent career development opportunities, as after a year of practice, they may rise to become the guild’s full-fledged System Administrator! However, committing to this career path is not required. Like the System Administrator position, this role also provides solid experience and Assistant, too, may occasionally find themselves targeted by eager recruiters.
-Is TiTe's contact person to TEK (Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK). Organizes the TEK-info to new fuksis and writes articles about TEK to our guild magazine Nibble.
-==== Guild master('s helper) ====
+==== Fuksi captain ====
-Responsible for coming up with new ideas how to improve the guild. Also buys coffee to the guild room and is responsible for guild's vending machines.
+The Fuksi captains are responsible for TiTe’s freshman initiation program and, together with the Ubertutor, organize all kinds of fun activities for the freshmen throughout their first year. The freshman year begins with the orientation week organized by the Fuksi Team and ends with the welcoming sauna they also arrange! The year includes plenty of other activities as well, such as info sessions, sitsit, XQ trips, checkpoint crawls, sports trials, and the fuksi oath.
-==== Event coordinators officer ====
+Another part of the Freshman Coordinator’s role is being part of the Fuksi Council (Fuksineuvosto), which consists of the fuksi captains from all guilds, and also being part of Hovi, which includes the fuksi captains and the tutor coordinators from the city centre campus. The Fuksi Council also holds meetings where the largest freshman events on campus are planned, such as the Shrovetide Festival (Laskiaisrieha), the City Tour (Kiertoajelu), Fuksisitsit, and Fuksikyykkä.
-Helps produce events with the collabration with the Event coordinator.
-==== Social media officer ====
+There is plenty to do outside these events as well, such as advising fuksis and stamping fuksipasses. Events never have to be organized alone, it is highly encouraged and lots of fun to come up with activities together with other guilds and student associations!
-Is responsible for updating TiTe´s social media accounts.
-==== PE-officer ====
+The Fuksi captains are selected only after Wappu, in May. Fuksi captain role requires fluent Finnish.
-Organizes all kinds of different activities to TiTe's members such as weekly floorball in Bommari and ball games in Tamppi arena. Also organizes two events in Megazone and different sport experimentations during the year.
-==== Cantor ====
+==== International Fuksi captain ====
-Keeps up the singing culture in the guild and works as a cantor in TiTe's sitsis for example.
-==== Treasurer's helper ====
+The International Fuksi captain is part of the Fuksi Team. The main responsibility of the IFC is to ensure that international students receive the same amount of information about events and to take charge of activating and training international tutors. The IFC enjoys the same benefits as the national Fuksi Captain and they are included in the Fuksi Council and get to stamp fuksipasses! In addition, the IFC is part of the International Fuksi Council, where shared international events can be coordinated easily. Proficiency in English is highly recommended!
-Helps TiTe's treasurer in keeping the guild's financial things in control.
+The International Freshman captain is selected at the same time as the other Freshman Coordinators, in May. IFC requires fluent Finnish.
+==== Assistant Event Coordinator ====
+The Assistant Event Coordinator supports the Event Coordinator by working actively as a team. The assistant also co-leads the event committee together with the Event Coordinator.
+As the Assistant Event Coordinator, you get to help organize various TiTe events. These include many different sitsit, such as Pre-Colours Sitsit, Black-Overall Sitsit, and Raffle Sitsit, as well as the hottest party of the autumn — Senssibileet! In addition to these, you also have the opportunity to develop the guild’s event activities and create any kind of event you want.
+If you’ve always been interested in planning and organizing the best events in the world, this role is for you!
+==== Graphic designer  ====
+Graphic designer is responsible for doing all kinds of graphics for TiTe! Th graphic designer works together with many other board members, and for example makes event posters, helps with Nibble and IT-Hekuma graphics and layout. The graphic designer is a part of the media committee.
+Graphic designer should have some experience in creating graphics and some visual eye, but all will be taught and you'll learn a lot by doing! TiTe offers the software needed.
+==== Guild master ====
+The Guild Master is responsible for maintaining and developing TiTe’s guild room. The Guild Master handles, for example, ordering snacks, coffee, and supplies for the guild room, as well as maintaining and improving the furnishings and overall atmosphere. The Guild Master helps keep the guild clean and pleasant together with the entire board. This role is particularly important for ensuring member comfort!
+==== TEK Officer =====
+The TEK Officer (kiltayhdyshenkilö, KYH) has a very simple job. Get to know TEK, organize freshman recruitment, and write articles for Nibble. The KYH should be somewhat sales-oriented, genuinely interested in TEK, and not too nervous about public speaking. The TEK officer role is easy to combine with another position.
+==== Sports Officer ====
+The Sports officer's duties in TiTe include organizing sports events such as kyykkä qualifiers and various sports tryouts. In addition, you have the opportunity to create all kinds of sports-related events that you can come up with!
+The Sports Officer's task is to encourage TiTe members to be active and to keep TiTe’s regular sports sessions—floorball at Bommari and ball games at Tamppi Arena running.
+The Sports Officer also becomes part of TUrVoKe sports committee consisting of all guilds’ sports officers. The committee brainstorms and organizes events such as the Wappu Warm-Up and the autumn Kilometer Competition. In previous years, the sports committee has also organized events like an inter-guild baseball tournament and track and field competitions.
+==== Song Master ====
+The song master primarily acts as the song leader during sitsit, but also leads the singing whenever needed. At a sitsis, one can "salt" songs to the song master, and they should be able to skillfully lead at least the songs on the program. Additionally, situational awareness is required to know when to loudly shout "SKÅL!" at inappropriate or excessively long additional verses.
+The song master also naturally sings rather than well, and knowledge of Rasputin songs is helpful in this post.
+==== Editor-in-chief ====
+The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for our guild’s own magazine, Nibble. Nibble is published about three times a year, so the Editor-in-Chief’s workload is concentrated in the periods leading up to publication. The Editor-in-Chief is supported by the Nibble Committee, whose members brainstorm article ideas. The board, guild members, and the committee write the articles for the magazine. The Editor-in-Chief compiles the magazine into a coherent whole and delivers it to the graphic designer for layout or lays out the magazine themselves.
+==== Assistant treasurer ====
+More familiarly known as rapu. The Assistant Treasurer manages the guild’s cash registers, both in the guild room and at events where sales occur. The role also involves checking event payments and reminding people about unpaid fees.
+The Treasurer’s Assistant helps lead the investment committee together with the Treasurer and also represents the guild in the finance committee alongside the Treasurer. The position provides a wide range of experience in trusted roles and in managing the guild’s financial matters.
+During the term, the Assistant is also trained in the Treasurer’s duties, making this an excellent stepping stone toward becoming the Treasurer the following year — though without any obligation to commit to continuing.
+==== Excursion and Foreign Affairs Officer ====
+The main task of this position is to manage foreign affairs with other Tampere guilds and sister guilds in other cities. The XQ and Foreign Affairs Officer acts both at the board level — serving as a liaison to the boards of other guilds — and at the member level by organizing XQs (excursions) and other activities with students from different cities.
+The role includes arranging visits, booking spaces, buses, and similar resources, as well as representing the guild. The largest single event to organize is the Rankka XQ.
+This position requires the ability to plan and organize events. It offers plenty of freedom in arranging excursions and gives opportunities to get to know students from a wide range of fields.
 ==== Photographer ====
-Takes photos in TiTe's events and uploads the photos to TiTe's gallery.
+The most important duty of the Ppotographer is to participate in the guild’s events, photograph them, and deliver the pictures to TiTe's gallery. The photographer has a crucial role in immortalizing the culture and history of TiTe.
+Prior experience in photography is a plus but not mandatory, and the guild provides the equipment for photos and editing. The Photographer should also frequently attend events and be able to carry the camera along, for example, on excursions.
+==== Annual Gala Officer ====
+The Annual Gala Officer is responsible for the annual gala project together with the Annual Gala Committee. The committee is in charge of organizing the annual gala, the sillis brunch, and possibly other anniversary events. This position is selected only after Wappu, in May.
 ==== Corporate relations officer (2 pc) ====
 As the Corporate Affairs Officer, you’ll get to maintain relationships with companies and acquire new partners. In the Corporate Relations team, everything is done together as a group and responsibilities are shared among everyone. The officers also play a big role in organizing IT-Hekuma, where both officers have their own areas of responsibility to take care of. Typical tasks for a Corporate Affairs Officer include communicating with companies, organizing different kinds of excursions, and acting as the right hand of the Head of Corporate Relations. This position provides valuable experience and contacts for your future career.
-==== Editor-in-chief ====
+==== Social media officer ====
-Makes sure that our guild magazine, Nibble, gets done. Nibble should be released 4 times during the year.
+The duty of the Social media officer is to plan and execute content for TiTe's social media channels. The Social Media Officer works in cooperation with the Head of Communications and is a member of the Media Committee. The guild's most important social media channel is Instagram, but creating TikToks or generating buzz on LinkedIn can also be interesting tasks for the Social media officer! Previous experience is not required; an enthusiastic attitude is enough.
-==== Educational politics helper ====
+==== Well-being Officer ====
-Responsible for educational matters in TiTe together with the head of educational politics. '
+The Wellbeing Officer is responsible for the guild’s wellbeing initiatives and events, assists the Sports Officer, and can come up with ideas to improve the comfort and atmosphere of the guild room. The Well-being Officer is a new position for the year 2026.
-==== Social politics officer ====
+==== Major of Titeenit ====
-Responsible for social politics and equity at TiTe.
+The Major of Titeenit is responsible for organizing the 2027 Battle of Titeenit in Tampere. The role includes leading the Titeenit Committee, planning and executing the Titeenit games, and handling tasks such as sponsorship sales, communications, external relations, organizing volunteers, and overall project management.
+===== Archived officer positions =====
 ==== Material officer ====
 Responsible for the ordering of TiTe merch. Is a new position, so there is room for improvement!
-==== Head of excursions and foreign affairs ====
-Organizes TiTe's biggest excursions, such as Rankka-XQ and excursion to Kauppkadun appro. Also helps the events coordinator organize other events in TiTe.