{"id":33,"date":"2018-10-15T14:34:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T14:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/ukisa\/?p=33"},"modified":"2018-10-15T14:42:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T14:42:37","slug":"south-african-area-captaincy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/ukisa\/2018\/10\/south-african-area-captaincy\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Area Captain &#8211; Application Open!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption alignleft judgeimg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/3102549036\"><img src=https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=3102549036&size=200 alt=\"Written by Jack Doyle\nLevel 3, United Kingdom\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Written by Jack Doyle<br \/>\nLevel 3, United Kingdom<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hello friends!<\/p>\n<p>Due to Roger Holness&#8217; increasingly busy &#8220;normal life&#8221;, he no longer has as much time to dedicate to the judge programme and the South African area captaincy. Roger has been one of the strongest, most reliable area captains, dealing with a workload far beyond that of a normal AC simply due to how remote South Africa is as part of UKISA. Under Roger&#8217;s leadership, growth in South Africa has been amazing, and any who have had the opportunity to work with him know that he cares a huge amount, and put an even larger amount of effort into keeping South Africa on the map.<\/p>\n<p>This post is announcing a new idea for Area Captaincy in general, but specifically for South Africa &#8212; an open application process.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For now, this application is only available for <strong>South Africa-based L2+ judges<\/strong>. It will remain open until\u00a0<strong>October 31st, 2018<\/strong>. At this time, depending on applications, there may be further steps, or there may be a new AC appointed to guide South Africa through the most recent changes to the judge programme and organised play alike.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For an idea of the expectations of the applicant, the following is asked of the applicant:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be a contact point to allow local players, judges, and stores to contact a member of regional leadership that they are familiar with.<\/li>\n<li>Guide and mentor judges in their area as time allows, or organising this structure.<\/li>\n<li>Being willing to deal with receiving and forwarding post from Jack, involving Exemplar letters and foils, judge badges, shirts, and so on.<\/li>\n<li>Communicating regularly with the Area Captain group and with the other members of regional leadership, providing updates on judges and stores, and the general health of the community.<\/li>\n<li>Invitation (and optional attendance) to the regional leadership conference, held in Q1\/Q2 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As with other Area Captains, the position is unpaid, although expenses incurred for shipping and postage (as well as time spent on these activities) are reimbursed\/pre-paid by the region.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To apply for this position, please answer the following questions in an email to Jack (<a href=\"mailto:scryus@gmail.com\">scryus@gmail.com<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is your vision for the South African judge community? What initiatives or ideas do you have as a potential Area Captain to further this vision?<\/li>\n<li>Do you foresee any other candidates applying for this position? Can you summarise the current leadership and division of work for South Africa?<\/li>\n<li>What makes you a good fit for the role?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If you have any other questions or clarifications, please get in touch directly and I&#8217;ll do my best to answer.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, a huge amount of thanks to Roger for his fantastic work in the time I&#8217;ve known him, and I look forward to meeting the new face of South African judging.<\/p>\n<p>Jack<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack opens applications for the position of South Africa Area Captain &#8212; applications open until October 31st!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"language":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/ukisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/ukisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/ukisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/ukisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/ukisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/ukisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/ukisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/ukisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/ukisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/ukisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/ukisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/ukisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}