International Pharmaceutical

Students Federation
Pan American Regional Office

International Pharmaceutical Students Federation

Pan American Regional Office
Call for Pan American Regional Office Positions
Regional Working Group
The Pan American Regional Office (PARO) is calling interested pharmacy
students from all the IPSFs associations from the American Continents to join the
International Pharmaceutical Students Federation as part of the PAROs team on
the Executive Committee, Regional Working Group.
For all the positions, you must be able to work on throughout the year in your
position and have regular internet access. You must be reachable throughout your
entire term, until October 2016. All the positions are invited to attend the 62nd IPSF
World Congress, 10th IPSF Pan American Regional Symposium and your
committee/subcommittee meeting, if one is scheduled. However, it is not obligatory.
If you are interested in a particular position listed here, you shall submit the
completed Nomination Form and a Motivation Letter with less than 300 words and
send to the PARO Secretary (secretary@paro.ipsf.org) before the deadline for
applications.
All the nomination forms must be submitted to secretary@paro.ipsf.org no
later than May 6th of 2016, 23:59 (11:59 pm) GMT-3 (San Luis, Argentina time)
Executive Position re-opened
Regional Media and Publications Officer (RMPO)
As Regional Media and Publications Officer, you will be responsible for
developing publication materials, updating the website and Facebook page of
the Regional Office. The main Regional Office publications are the PARO
Newsletter and the Regional Office Annual Report. The RMPO is responsible
to ensure completeness and effectiveness of the content and design of ALL
publications. It is essential to have the ability to use Photoshop or other
related programs is essential but if you do not possess these skills yet, they
can be learned.
It is also the RMPOs responsibility to ensure that the website is maintained
and continually up to date. To be able to update the Regional Office website it
IPSF Secretariat: Andries Bickerweg 5, P.O. Box 84200, 2508 AE The Hague, The Netherlands.
Tel: +31-70-302 19 92 - Fax: +31-70-302 19 99 - Email: ipsf@ipsf.org - Website: www.ipsf.org
Registered under Dutch Law: 40413709

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Students Federation
Pan American Regional Office

is essential to have the basic knowledge on how to manage a website, as well

as to be familiar with both technical details and all site content. The website
program that is currently used is WordPress.
The newsletter is an important publication for PARO and the RMPO is the
leader in preparing this project. There should be an issue that comes out
every 1-3 months that includes all regional activities promoted by RWG, blog
posts from the website and Facebook page, pictures from association projects
and anything else that should be shared with the region. The RMPO will have
help from the Website Development Chair which will work closely together to
improve the PARO website.
The RMPO is also responsible for working with the Regional Projects
Officer to create and design new and imaginative ways of promoting the
Regional Office and its projects such as; flyers, posters, association project
reports. Also, RMPO is responsible for editing any and all materials that are
posted on the website and Facebook page for grammar, spelling and
completeness (including blog posts). Most importantly, the RMPO needs to
motivate the region to share their ideas for patient outreach projects and
materials in order to promote progression of the region.
The RMPO is also the leader of the Media and Publications Subcommittee
as well as the Translation Subcommittee and will need to delegate necessary
obligations to these individuals. RMPOs responsibility to ensure that all posts
are translated at least in English, Spanish (however, if available, posts should
be translated into Portuguese, and French as well), with the help of the
Translation Subcommittee.

IPSF Secretariat: Andries Bickerweg 5, P.O. Box 84200, 2508 AE The Hague, The Netherlands.
Tel: +31-70-302 19 92 - Fax: +31-70-302 19 99 - Email: ipsf@ipsf.org - Website: www.ipsf.org
Registered under Dutch Law: 40413709