Volunteers

Riding with our kids, and not necessarily your own, is a rewarding way to see them progress through the year and you will find your own skills on the bike improve too, especially parents new to the sport. Whether you can ride every week or just once a month, we welcome you to participate.

Becoming a TEC is a great way to support coaches when riding with larger groups of 12-15 kids as well as enhance your own bike skills. Through the year you have the opportunity to participate in coaching courses (led by our Head Coach and external qualified instructors), complete first aid training and hang out with a great bunch of people. To ride with our groups, you will be asked to complete a police vetting form.

Whether you're new to the club and have previous experience with coaching kids, we would encourage and support you to level up into an Assistant Coach or Lead Coach role. While basic riding skills are important you don't need to be a grade 5+ technical rider to lead our junior and intermediate groups. Guidance and support will be available from our Senior Coaches, and we can pair you with other experienced team leaders to get you familiar with the trails we ride.

This role will assist to decentralise duties performed by the assistant head coaches. Initially you will be tasked with following up your team’s RSVP responses and helping coordinate coach & TEC attendance. On any given week some of our parent coaches will be unavailable due to work and personal commitments or illness. Team Managers will liaise with each other to organise relief coaches across teams to ensure we meet our required team metrics and coach ratios.

Our teams are split into the following groups and we expect most transfers will happen within these categories.

With so many events in the calendar year, we would appreciate your support to help plan and coordinate activities on the day. Each event will be led by a committee member and will cover a broad range of duties. Some events might be relevant and attended by your child which will make it especially easy to jump in and assist.

Some of our bigger events include,

• Jafakids Auckland Schools Shreddah Funduro
• Jafakids Auckland Schools XC
• Jafakids Rotorua Camps
• Jafakids Camp Diner

We are also interested to hold new events including a mid-winter social gathering.

If you would like to help but just not sure how to balance your current work and family commitments, then this is the role for you. With no agenda or skillset required, we simply need a pool of volunteers we can reach out to when we're overloaded or something special comes up. We'll add you to our season's Volunteer List and send you a comms when help is needed. Volunteer assignments and tasks will be notified through our club software and you will be able to respond with an RSVP if you think it's right for you.

Every year the club holds an AGM to present awards, acknowledge contributions, thank retiring members and to vote in new committee members. Our committee is made up of eleven parents and positions are typically held for two or more years. If you have skillsets or connections you think would benefit the club, don't hesitate to reach out and let us know.

Early in the new year we run a series of open meetings for parents considering a committee role. They're a chance to see how the club functions day to day, what the committee actually spends its time on, and how the group works together — a much better basis for deciding than a role description. Our regular monthly meetings are held on the last Thursday of the month.