Interested in becoming a department head? Here’s a general description of a department head’s responsibilities

Here’s a description of what the heads of departments do.

Lead Coordinator

The lead coordinator is responsible for making sure that everything gets done, and all problems are resolved. They serve as the primary decision maker if necessary, and also serve as the Ombudsman for attendees.

Perhaps the most important job of the lead coordinator is to get together volunteers, including department heads, that can organize and maintain the various departments. If a lead coordinator recruits good volunteers, their job becomes a lot easier.

Head of Medical

The Head of medical is responsible for managing the medical staff at FSG. This includes budgeting for the festival, evaluating potential volunteers for medical, and scheduling volunteers to insure that there is adequate coverage of medical staff during the festival. The Head of Medical should be a qualified medical professional with experience in managing medical teams.

Head of Security

The Head of security is responsible for managing the security staff at FSG. This includes budgeting for the festival, evaluating potential volunteers for security, and scheduling volunteers to insure that there is adequate coverage of security staff during the festival.

Head of Pool

The Head of Pool is responsible for managing the pool safety staff. This includes budgeting for the festival, evaluating potential volunteers for the pool, and scheduling volunteers to insure that there is adequate coverage of the pool during the festival. They are also responsible for establishing pool hours, rules for pool hours, and related items.

Head of Merchants

Head of Programming

Setpup/Teardown

Sweats

Fire Circle

Registration

Teen Programming

Head of Bus

Web Site Department Head

The web site department head is responsible for developing and maintaining the Free Spirit Gathering Web Site. The site is currently hosted on provider using WordPress. While the department head isn’t responsible for creating the content, they do need to get people to create the content, and then post it up on the web site. A department head should be familiar with WordPress (including Themes, and generating menus), image editing, video editing, and content creation using various tools.