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NATIONAL EXECUTIVE 17 SECRETARY MADELYN DEIGAN The secretary is an intensive and dynamic role responsible for establishing, overseeing and optimising internal AMSA communication platforms. Communication platforms include: Slack, Google Suite and the AMSA Directory. For example, the Secretary is tasked with creating AMSA accounts for all new volunteers, as well as collating internal archives to improve institutional memory A sweet summary of your role? “My role as secretary is to be a central point of communication between all the AMSA teams, and internal and external stakeholders. Day to day there is a lot of answering emails, organising meetings, onboarding new volunteers and completing other secretarial tasks to help the Nat Exec and AMSA to run smoothly.” Your greatest achievements? “My greatest achievement has been making connections and working closely with other secretaries and team-leads. Problem solving together and empowering others to utilise google suite to better organise their drives and emails has been one of the highlights. Also being able to upskill in IT things with the help of our amazing ITO, which allowed me to pass on skills to others.”
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE 18 POLICY OFFICER CONNOR RYAN The Policy Officer Proactively identifies areas for development within the policy base; works closely with the Global Health Policy Officer to plan the introduction of new policies and the policy review cycle; and Works closely with the National Executive, particularly in proactive and reactive advocacy, ensuring advocacy is consistent with our policy base. Role summary The PO facilitates policy development through: Consultation of key volunteers and groups and supporting efforts to hear student voices; Supporting AMSA reps through the policy review process to survey student opinion and feedback, through Think Tanks and Policy Review Teams; Recruiting teams of policy authors to write policies in advance of each National Council; Recruiting a National Policy Subcommittee consisting of a National Policy Secretary and National Policy Mentors as necessary to support policy authors; and 2023 Achievements In 2023, the aim was to enable policy to be the beating heart of AMSA by: 1.Improving the policy author experience, with a focus on retention Feedback from policy officers was overwhelmingly positive. This year introduced an applicationbased lead author, enabling a meritocratic progression pathway within the policy space. This saw experienced authors returning as lead authors. 50% of policy authors for council 3 were returned, a marked increase from 25% in the last policy round. Also, there was a focus on decentralising policy from QLD and VIC. This went well with the proportion steadily dropping from 76% to 63.5% to 50%. This has been matched with improved Think Tank processes across the board. 2. Ensuring proactive use of policy through Policy Action Teams (PATs) Policy Action Teams have been realised and they have done great work - from audits to media releases to government submissions to letter campaigns, PATs have done what they were designed to do: action our new policies in a targeted way. 3. Increasing representativeness of our policy through consultation A solid system for internal consultations was established and the future aim is to expand to external consultations.
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Page 9 and 10: NATIONAL EXECUTIVE 10 VICE PRESIDEN
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Page 21 and 22: NATIONAL EXECUTIVE 22 PUBLICATIONS
Page 23 and 24: AMSA REPRESENTATIVE GROUPS 24 AMSA
Page 25 and 26: AMSA INITIATIVE GROUPS 30 AMSA VAMP
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Page 31 and 32: JANUARY 2023 EMBOLUS P R E S I D E
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