Glasgow South Service Positions
A SUMMARY OF CURRENT VACANT POSITIONS AT INTERGROUP FOR WHICH WE NEED TRUSTED SERVANTS TO STEP FORWARD TO HELP US CARRY THE MESSAGE TO THE STILL SUFFERING.
Please note:
- Every liaison officer role involves submission of a brief report to be submitted to the secretary if not able to attend the intergroup monthly meeting.
- Every liaison officer role also involves attendance at bi- monthly Intergroup meetings. Our group conscience is that if a trusted servant cannot represent Intergroup for more than 3 months that they are requested to step down as their presence is important to our group conscience.
- It is through the intergroup assembly that the intergroup liaison officer is elected It is recommended that intergroup Liaison Officers should have ideally two years continuous sobriety when elected, and should serve for a maximum of three years
Role of Electronic Communications Liaison Officer (ECLO): Taken from The AA Service Handbook for Great Britain.
The principal role of the ECLO is one of liaison, communication, and co-ordination between groups, intergroup, region, and the Electronics Communications Sub-Committee (ECSC) and to facilitate correlation and dissemination of relevant information between these principal service areas. Therefore, a good understanding of the Traditions and Service and Structure Handbooks is more important to the role than technical knowledge. A minimum of three years sobriety is recommended, and a general competence with the use of computers. If desired, a committee of technically skilled members could be formed to assist the ECLO in setting up/maintaining/updating any local website, with the ECLO acting as Chair of this committee. Such a committee would provide an opportunity for less experienced but technically skilled members to engage in service.
The ECLO is the liaison point between the local Fellowship and the Electronic Communications Subcommittee, advising the intergroup/region on the availability and use of the facilities available on the AAGB website. They are responsible for checking the accuracy of any local information posted on the website (i.e. meeting list addresses and postcodes, local webpage content etc) to ensure that out of date or misleading local information is not published.
Role of Archivist: Taken from The AA Service Handbook for Great Britain.
Archivists are an informal network of enthusiasts who share the same aim of preserving the Fellowships past and ensuring that fact prevails over fiction or myth. This network exists outside the formal service structure of the Fellowship but runs parallel to it. Archivists are not: (a) officers in the Fellowships structural sense, rather willing enthusiasts with a lifelong desire to work in the name of, and be accountable to, their region or intergroup. (b) voting members of their respective assemblies and as such, are simply observers with no voting rights. (c) subject to the principles of rotation, since continuity at all levels has been shown, through experience, to be a vital aspect of archival work.
The Archivist is the person responsible for the collection, its documents, and artefactual items. He or she takes care of, and maintains, the physical integrity of the collection and is instrumental in its further development. The Archivist is also responsible for ensuring the protection of the anonymity of its members and the confidentiality of the AA records. The function of the Archivist can be considered therefore to be twofold: primarily a custodial responsibility for assuring the physical integrity of the collection and its availability to persons with a valid reason for study; and also the parallel and critical role of data gatherer. It is in this latter capacity that service can be rendered to Bill Ws urging that archives are needed so that myth doesnt prevail over fact. In a real sense then, AA Archivists are keepers of the past.
Role of Employment Liaison Officer (ELO): Taken from The AA Service Handbook for Great Britain.
The responsibility of ELOs is to carry AAs message to employers within their local area supported by intergroup and region and a PI/Service Committee if one exists. Employment specifically concerns any organisation employing or serving staff companies, trade unions and associations, government departments and/or related agencies. An established period of sobriety (ideally not less than three years) and a thorough knowledge of the AA Service Handbook for Great Britain are necessary before accepting this role. Willingness to commit to three years service and the ability to deal with a wide range of professional people and talk about AA when invited to do so, are also qualities that have proven to be desirable.
Regional Representative (RR)
- Glasgow North West
- Clydebank & District
- Glasgow South
- Glasgow East
- Monklands
The main tasks of the intergroup liaison officer are
- Obtaining and reading the Liaison Officers Pack: Probation/CJS and using it as the Liaison Officer feels appropriate, and using the AA Web sites section on Probation/ CJSWS Liaison for information and resource material
To establish/maintain links in the intergroup area with:
- Offender management services dealing with non-custodial sentences
- Bail hostels and similar facilities
- Magistrates/Justices, local courts and court officer
- Police forces
- Solicitors organisations
- Other professionals having regular contact with probationers
- Report to each intergroup meeting by the Liaison Officer to keep intergroup informed on a regular basis. A copy of each intergroup report should be sent to the regional Probation/CJSWS Liaison Officer, who should be kept informed of developments in the intergroup.
- Maintaining lists of contacts, Twelfth-Steppers, helpers etc so that continuity of service can be eased
- Attending regional Workshops when available, and keeping in contact with the regional Liaison Office
- Attending AAs national Probation/Criminal Justice Social Work Seminars when these are arranged Some intergroups have a flourishing relationship with their local offender management services department. In others there will have been little contact. It is for each Liaison Officer to decide the best way of taking the role forward.
Some suggested methods are as follows:
- Setting up a committee or team to assist in the work and to Twelfth Step any probationers.
- Establishing a named contact in each local offender management service office in the area, and with the courts service, police, and other organisations
- Distributing approved AA literature and posters for display in offender management service offices bail hostels, court office and police stations, and to be given by them to offenders.
- Material given to offenders might include stories from AA members who have encountered similar problems, which are available from the AA Web site and the Prison induction pack
- Attending meetings with individuals and teams in the offender management service to inform them of how AA works and what it does and does not do. Attending similar meetings with courts staff, solicitors, the police etc.
- Arranging to provide speakers for offender groups such as alcohol awareness sessions, perhaps with the help of members who have experienced aspects of the criminal justice system.
Chairperson
Vice Chairperson
Secretary
Treasurer
Health
Prisons
Public Information
TASS
YPLO
Courts & Social
Literature
Employment Vacant
ECLO
Region
Roundabout
Archives Vacant See Below
Social Convenor
Vacant Positions
ARCHIVIST:
Are you Interested in AA History, Our Intergroup urgently needs an Archivist
The Archivist is vital in preserving our Fellowship
There are so many exciting facets to this role, which include audio interviews with your intergroups long timers ,collating and collecting artifacts from AA members within your intergroup, communicating with other archivists and organising workshops to raise awareness of our archives and encourage groups to preserve our history
For more information please contact Alex M (Regional Archivist) archives.gla@aamail.org