BUSINESS TEAM
About the Subteam
The Business Team supports the technical teams by communicating with sponsors, managing finances, furthering recruitment and more! The Business Team seeks to provide students with the opportunity to apply what is learned in the classroom. Members can formulate and deliver professional development workshops, practice accounting, and learn how to collaborate across disciplines. The subteam is divided into several roles that focus primarily on some of those aspects. The roles are described below, see what might fit you!
- Log all receipts and donation checks/transfer in Microsoft Excel
- Perform a monthly audit
- Analyze spending and donations via a dashboard to project future yearly budgets
- Reach out to potential and previous sponsors
- Pitch the Underwater Robotics team to companies at career fairs
- Update the sponsorship packet
- Compile information from other team leads into a monthly newsletter that highlights what the team’s been up to
- Create templates for professional development posts, social media posts, pool test posts, and monthly general posts
- Take photos during events and compile photos taken by members
- Utilize Instagram Takeovers
- Plan and coordinate recruitment events for the fall semester and spring semester
- Create resources for team members on other subteams
- Coordinate and lead the Career Coaches & Mentorship Program
- Plan video content storyboarding, recording, and editing for each subteam
- Perform project management for other subteams in video production
- Work with video editor to get ~5 minute videos for each subteam
- Plan video production for ~3 minute SOA award video due in late February to early March
- Plan a timeline for task deadlines during the academic semester
- Summarize website design feedback from the competition we compete in called RoboSub so that the team can apply said feedback
- Edit the website via WordPress
- Organize and upload blog posts highlighting works from the subteams
- Facilitate professional development workshops
- Reach out to sponsors in the gold tier group to plan spring semester workshops
- Send all workshop dates and descriptions to Marketing Coordinator to put in the newsletter
- Plan one social event per month for each semester–send the social event to the Marketing Coordinator to put in the newsletter
- Organize social event participation via the Social Events Microsoft Team’s channel
- Create flyers, social media, and promotional material content for events on the team
- Create online assets used on the website
- Create designs for merchandise that team members can buy on RedBubble
Our media-focused members work amongst the team to gather photos, coordinate the development of videos, and writing of blog posts. The biggest responsibility of our media members is annual creation of a Student Organization Award (SOA) video. This video is evaluated by the University and is used to determine our eligibility for several awards. Spring 2023 we won an award in community outreach/service.
Recruitment is a huge part of keeping the team strong and adding new talent. We have two major recruitment events each year: Fall Involvement Fair and Spring Involvement Fair.
Corporate Relations works both in acquiring funding and maintaining sponsor relationships. This includes scheduling information meetings and workshops with sponsors. The Eaton information session pictured below.
The business team puts on professional development workshops. These include discussions on professional dress, resume help, career fair prep and more! Attached is the career fair and resume presentation and a list of verbs to better describe actions in a resume
“I have been on the team for a few years now. It is amazing to see the improvement in the business team. They have so many cool projects going on, especially the project with creating videos. It’s been refreshing to join a subteam with such a variety of responsibilities.”
“This team allowed me to get an internship. I talked about all the workshops I put on and how it helped give me skills in creating presentations, facilitating to people, and proper etiquette when presenting. I couldn’t imagine not being part of this team.”
