LEADERSHIP TEAM
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MAIN OBJECTIVE & MEASURABLE GOAL:

• To develop and execute a vision for the upcoming issue that aligns with Toyon’s identity as a multilingual, abolitionist, and anti-colonial platform for written, spoken, and visual art.
• To lead Toyon and foster a working environment that staff members will report experiencing as inclusive, engaging, and efficient.
  

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​Managing Editor

Two semester commitment preferred

• Provides leadership on all aspects of Toyon’s publication process.
  
• Checks on the progress of team projects, liaises between teams, and is available to work through the different aspects of any team's process. 
• Ensures that all team members have what they need to accomplish their role effectively. Moderates and facilitates other forums of staff communication, as needed.
• Meets with the faculty advisor on a weekly basis to review upcoming lesson plans and meeting agendas.
• Facilitates team-building events and activities for the Toyon staff.
  
• Maintains the organization of the staff's Google Drive directories. Ensures that all folders and files in the Google Drive are accessible, navigable, and understandable to current and new staff members.
• Provides a final check of the proof at Marcom before going to print.
  
  

Assistant Managing Editor

Open to first-year students, sophomores, and juniors who plan to return to the staff in future years.

• Facilitates meetings alongside managing editor and advisor.
• Provides assistance in all aspects of the managing editor role, as listed above. 
• Assists the managing editor with keeping the staff connected (through group chat, email correspondence).
• Takes minutes at all meetings and class sessions, saving these documents in a shared folder that is accessible to all members of the Toyon staff.
  
• Checks on the progress of projects and liaises between teams and is available to work through the different aspects of any team's process.
• Maintains the tabling calendar and the calendar for FH205. Sends reminders about the tabling schedule, and other promotional efforts, to the staff.
• Facilitates team-building events and activities for the Toyon staff.
  
• Maintains the accuracy and completeness of the staff handbook.
• Provides a final check of the proof at Marcom before going to print.
• Supports scheduled events (checking that the room is booked, decorations ready,  adequate advertising in advance of the event, etc.).​
• Maintains the virtual suggestion box (moderating discussion, collating feedback offered there, etc.).
  
  

Community Liaison

Bilingual or multilingual preferred

• Seeks opportunities to table on and off campus.
  
• Seeks local businesses/orgs to collaborate with (e.g. Humboldt for Palestine; Students for a Democratic Society).
• Advertises the Toyon submission guidelines to online communities and writing forums (including the Creative Writing Opportunities list).
• Coordinates the distribution of the call for submissions. Ensures that flyers are distributed around campus by staff.
• ​Translates into Spanish (and/or additional languages) all communications sent out by Toyon, including the website.
• ​Maintains a full database of contact information for all people, groups, offices, sites, etc. that should receive Toyon communications. Ensures that all of these groups/offices/sites have a liaison from the staff. Maintains a list of contact information for all local booksellers and libraries, available to the Toyon staff.
• ​Fosters partnerships with and ensures that the call for submissions is advertised to the Centers for Academic Excellence, International Programs, and the Department of World Languages and Cultures.
• Acts as a liaison between the Creative Writing Club and other writers' groups on campus and in the local community, as well as zines and other publishing efforts on campus. 
• Subscribes the Toyon email account to local literary community members' newsletters, including mailing lists for bookstores, etc. ​
• Gains permission to post advertisements at local bookstores and local libraries about Toyon (calls for submissions, announcements of the new issue). ​
  
• Communicates with local bookstores and local branches of the public library to ask about including the Toyon in their inventories. ​
  
• Identifies ways Toyon can partner with other literary journals to share resources or cross-promote. 
  
• Distributes copies of Toyon to local bookstores and local libraries in the spring semester.