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[Darren]

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SUPPORTERS' LIAISON OFFICER

Altrincham FC announces...
"As part of the 5 year Strategic Plan, presented to the fans in February, the board promised look at additional measures that can be taken to improve and strengthen the club’s communication with its fans. With this in mind the football club are pleased to announce that they are now looking to recruit a volunteer Supporters’ Liaison Officer (SLO) to act a bridge between the football club supporters and the board.

The role, which is backed by a UEFA initiative, is designed to ensure that fans have a dedicated point of contact and it is hoped that this will be someone who will represent the needs of fans within the club, and ensure that the most common issues are raised at the highest level within Altrincham FC.

Director Bill Waterson says 'The board believe that a SLO can help establish real, constructive dialogue between the supporters and the football club, and give fans a further vehicle by which they can put their thoughts and views forward on any subject they wish.'

The role of an SLO is not just about what happens at the games, or at the J Davidson Stadium, and therefore it would also incorporate non-match day responsibilities on supporter issues. A full job description (MS Word document) can be found here, but a summary of duties includes:

Provide supporters with a link into the club, allowing fans to put their thoughts and views forward on any subject
Gather feedback (formally and informally) from supporters, identify key issues and opportunities and communicate these to the club
Communicate key information to supporters and other stakeholders (through a variety of media, but including face-to-face meetings if required)
Applications are open from all fans and the successful applicant will be considered independent in the role, but with full and proper support from the club.

To register your interest in the role, please contact Brian Flynn. Applications will be considered until Saturday July 22nd, with an announcement following soon after".

[Paul Cain's Chip Pan]

Role

[taxi Phil]

Role

Grammar Nazi !

[andrewflynn]

Good move. I'd like to see the role filled by someone without any previous ties to the inner sanctum of 'the club' though.

[JMF]

Surely we've run out of people with the surname for it not to be out sourced, finally.

[Paul Cain's Chip Pan]

Thought better of my last reply and deleted it.

Sorry, have had a sh*t day...

[Matt Taylor]

From Main website.

SUPPORTERS' LIAISON OFFICER

Altrincham FC announces...
"As part of the 5 year Strategic Plan, presented to the fans in February, the board promised look at additional measures that can be taken to improve and strengthen the club’s communication with its fans. With this in mind the football club are pleased to announce that they are now looking to recruit a volunteer Supporters’ Liaison Officer (SLO) to act a bridge between the football club supporters and the board.

The role, which is backed by a UEFA initiative, is designed to ensure that fans have a dedicated point of contact and it is hoped that this will be someone who will represent the needs of fans within the club, and ensure that the most common issues are raised at the highest level within Altrincham FC.

Director Bill Waterson says 'The board believe that a SLO can help establish real, constructive dialogue between the supporters and the football club, and give fans a further vehicle by which they can put their thoughts and views forward on any subject they wish.'

The role of an SLO is not just about what happens at the games, or at the J Davidson Stadium, and therefore it would also incorporate non-match day responsibilities on supporter issues. A full job description (MS Word document) can be found here, but a summary of duties includes:

Provide supporters with a link into the club, allowing fans to put their thoughts and views forward on any subject
Gather feedback (formally and informally) from supporters, identify key issues and opportunities and communicate these to the club
Communicate key information to supporters and other stakeholders (through a variety of media, but including face-to-face meetings if required)
Applications are open from all fans and the successful applicant will be considered independent in the role, but with full and proper support from the club.

To register your interest in the role, please contact Brian Flynn. Applications will be considered until Saturday July 22nd, with an announcement following soon after".

I think this is a positive move by the club, particularly at the present time with the additional supporter uncertainty and questions created by having the majority of the football club up for sale.

It could be a useful point for supporters to raise questions they might have but currently nowhere really to direct them, for example questions that are raised on this forum for which there might be very straightforward answers but currently no-one to give them, such as the counting of postal votes at the recent EGM? The lack of public media/awareness campaign to push the available shares? Or (assuming we find someone who can come into the club with the means and know-how to get us to a level where we need to in the first place…) why a certain game is or isn’t segregated? Etc. Etc.

And it would theoretically give the supporters a dedicated person who can actually be responsible for answering such questions, as well as feeding any opinions and questions back into the football club on behalf of the supporters. Not just under the current board and at the present time, but on-going in the future – whatever that might hold.
And that would definitely be a positive compared the current position where a lot of these questions go unanswered and ignored which only fuels the feeling of disengagement.

I know that there is a lot of negativity around at the moment, and rightly so in a lot of respects as we begin the new season at our lowest ever level, but I really hope this doesn’t put new people off coming forward. In some ways, with the announcement at the EGM, this could potentially be the most positive time to be involved in the football club for over 20 years and a really exciting period to be the first SLO at the club.