TKO-äly offices

Board // Hallitus

At most 11 members + chair, treasurer and secretary.

The board keeps TKO-äly’s affairs running smoothly, coordinates with the officers and plans future activities of the organization. The board has meetings on average a couple of times a month, and regular attendance is expected from a board member. If there’s something to be done that isn’t covered in any of the TKO-äly’s officers’ job descriptions, usually the task is assigned to someone from the board.

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Chair of the board // Puheenjohtaja

The chair of the board convenes meetings and chairs the meetings. The chair is the most visible representative of TKO-äly to the outside world and is ultimately responsible for the organization. The position includes, among other things, preparing the application for HYY's operating grant, reading TKO-äly’s rules over and over, and communicating with other organizations and groups.

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Vice-chair of the board // Varapuheenjohtaja

Handles the chais's duties when the chair can not, and assist the chair in their duties. Thevice-chair is not elected at the organization’s meeting, but the board makes the choice from among board members.

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Secretary // Sihteeri

The secretary is a member of the board who writes the minutes of the meetings of the board and the association, and takes care of the proper archiving of the minutes and their appendices after the meetings. The secretary is also responsible for other paperwork.

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Treasurer // Rahastonhoitaja

Board member responsible for managing TKO-äly's cash flow, paying invoices, making transactions, debt collection, etc.

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Assisting treasurer // Avustava rahastonhoitaja

Assists the treasurer if needed.

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Member coordinator // Jäsenvastaava

Maintains the membership database, adds members to the organization and removes those who have not paid their membership fees. This has traditionally been part of the treasurer’s duties. If the posts are held by different people, close cooperation between the treasurer and the member coordinator is highly desirable.

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Product coordinator // Tuotevastaava

Responsible for TKO-äly’s products, such as overall patches, overalls and other TKO-äly fan merch. This includes placing orders, coordinating the design of new products, and monitoring the inventory.

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Communications officers // Tiedottajat

They manage TKO-äly’s social media and moderate the email channels. They are responsible for ensuring that all relevant information ends up on these channels in both Finnish and English. They have relatively free hands in terms of, for example, choosing graphics for the channels, the division of work amongst themselves and scheduling when posts are published.

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Equality adviser // Yhdenvertaisuusvastaava

Monitors and strives to improve TKO-äly’s atmosphere. Analyzes problem areas and organizes measures to improve things. Organizes an atmosphere survey at the beginning of the year to hear the opinions of TKO-äly members.

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Harassment contact persons // Häirintäyhdyshenkilöt

Receive anonymous and non-anonymous complaints and concerns, and monitor feedback on TKO-äly’s events. Advise and help people in situations involving harassment, equality problems, or an inflamed atmosphere. Inform the board of TKO-äly about things that need to be improved.

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Corporate relations // Yritysvastaavat

They keep in touch with sponsors and negotiate contracts. The contracts are then approved by the board. They also negotiate excursions and joint events with the sponsors.

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Studies representatives // Opintovastaavat

They act as liaisons between the department and students. Studies representatives represent students’ interests and forward feedback received from courses to the University. They also guide fellow students in course selections and other challenges with studies.

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Fresher and tutor coordinators // Fuksi- ja tuutorivastaavat

Recruit tutors and participate in their training. They act as tutors' gentle guides, organize a fresher survey in the summer and collect feedback from freshers at the end of fall. Participate in organizing the fresher events, and act as an intermediary between the faculty and the tutors.

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Annual ball sultan/sultana // Vuosijuhlamestari

Arranges the annual ball with its pre-party cocktails, afterparty and the morning after party. This entails booking the venue, approving the menu, sending invitations, and planning the program. Plans and organizes special events for years when TKO-äly’s age is n%5 = 0

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Annual ball team // Vuosijuhlatiimi

Assists the Annual ball sultan/sultana in organizing the annual ball.

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Academic table party coordinator // Pöytäjuhlavastaava

Responsible for sitsit (academic table parties). Sitsit are organized at least four times a year, for example fresher sitsit and May Day sitsit. The coordinator plans the event, decorations, and manages the kitchen staff, waiters and other helping hands.

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Table party team // Avustavat pöytäjuhlavastaavat

Help the Academic table party coordinator in organizing sitsit.

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Chef // Keittiömestari

Is in charge of the menu for sitsit, cooking the delicious food and even going to the market for the food.

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Culture chieftain // Kulttuurivastaava

Organizes alcohol-free activities for TKO-äly with the support of their team: cultural events, cooking together, music, etc. Only the sky is the limit!

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Culture and leisure team // Kulttuuritiimi

Organizes alcohol-free events with the Culture chieftain. The duties of an individual team member often include picking up snacks, organizing and planning events with the chieftain, and attending the events.

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Casual coordinator // Casual-vastaava

Organizes various alcohol-free Casual Nights, such as movie and board game nights.

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Casual team // Casual-tiimi

Assists the Casual coordinator, for example, in picking up food and organizing events.

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Exam Archivist // Tärpistövastaava

Keeps TKO-äly's exam archive Tärpistö up-to-date. Guides members in scanning exams and submitting them to Tärpistö.

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Party coordinator // Bilevastaava

Organizes parties, for example the afterparty for TKO-äly’s fresher orienteering and often a party in the Alina hall during Spring. They also organize sauna evenings and are in charge of the party team.

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Party team // Biletiimi

Organizes parties and sauna evenings together with the party coordinator. So basically they carry stuff and decorate.

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(Cruise) Captains // Risteilyvastaavat

They organize the Common Orienteering Cruise for Kumpula Students (KJYR) in the Fall. They decide the date, request a quotation for the cruise, and organize everything related to the cruise.

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Gurula correspondents // Gurula-vastaavat

They make sure Gurula is clean and comfy. Manage and maintain the equipment of Gurula, organize cleaning once a period and the emptying of the coat racks once a year. The position is well suited for someone who hangs out at Gurula habitually!

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RV correspondents // RV-vastaavat

They maintain the snack kiosk at Gurula by making orders and taking care of shelving the products and adding them to the kiosk system. They assist the treasurer in monitoring RV's financial situation and maintain an inventory of RV shelf products.

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Physical activities minister // Liikuntavastaava

Keeps TKO-äly members physically fit by organizing sports events, like for example the regular reservations to Unisport. Is the leader of the physical activities team.

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Physical activities team // Liikuntatiimi

They help the Physical activities minister to organize events and they participate in the events.

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Minister of LAN parties // LAN-vastaava

Organizes events like LAN-parties, game jams, streaming events and other game-related events. Collaborates with TKO-äly’s corporate relations and hustle master in planning the events.

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LAN party team // LAN-tiimi

Assists the Minister of LAN parties in arrangements, carrying stuff and coming up with ideas.

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Senior system administrator // Vanhempi järjestelmävastaava

A cool title for TKO-äly’s webmaster and general sysadmin. Responsible for maintaining tko-aly.fi and Gurula's technology. A certain creativity and vision for the further development of systems is considered an advantage.

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System administration team // Järjestelmävastaavatiimi

Help the Senior in the maintenance and further development of TKO-äly's IT systems. They are responsible for both devops and development. Looking for expertise in, for example, some of these: Javascript, Typescript, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, Docker, Kubernetes, Ubuntu/Debian, Linux sysadmin, networking and DNS, running an email server, Apache2, nginx.

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Graphic designer // Graafikko

The graphic designer's job is to design, for example, overall badges, tutor shirts, the layout of songbooks, or images for TKO-äly's events on social media. For the most part the graphic designer is free to produce graphics to suit their personal tastes.

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Editor-in-chief // Päätoimittaja

Head of the editorial staff of TKO-äly’s blog and possibly README magazine. The editor-in-chief is responsible for the art, articles, illustration, and theme. README and the blog have no set format, so the editor-in-chief has a lot of creative freedom.

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Reporters // Toimittajat

Produce content for TKO-äly's blog and possibly also for the README magazine. One can also become a photojournalist.

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Layout artist // Taittaja

Creates the visual look of README magazine. Creates the layouts for printed publications, such as song notebooks used at sitsit.

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Klusteri correspondent // Ilontalovastaava (aka klusterivastaava)

Responsible for TKO-äly’s affairs at Christina Regina. Organizes TKO-äly's Klusteri cleaning every couple of months and represents in Klusteri’s administrative body, the Leppätalo committee, at meetings. Makes sure that people with keys behave themselves.

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Klusteri team // Avustava Ilontalovastaava (moppaaja)

Klusteri keyholders commit to participating in Klusteri cleaning.

Environmental adviser // Ympäristövastaava

Monitors the implementation of the environmental plan and is responsible for the sustainability of TKO-äly’s operation. Ensures, among other things, that recycling in Gurula is easy.

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HYY correspondent // HYY-vastaava

Makes sure that TKO-äly’s members and board know what is happening in the Student Union of the University of Helsinki, HYY.

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Foreign minister // Ulkoasiainvastaava

Organizes cooperation and excursions with Computer Science subject organizations in other cities (perhaps also in other countries?).

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TEK correspondent // TEK-yhdyshenkilö

Responsible for communication and cooperation with TEK, the trade union for academic engineers and architects in Finland. Cooperates also with the TEK correspondents of other organizations in Kumpula

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Alumni correspondent // Alumniyhdyshenkilö

Keeps in touch with the board of TKT-alumnit and with the University's alumni association. Brings thoughts from the alumni to TKO-äly’s board.

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Otaniemi correspondent // Otaniemiyhdyshenkilö

Handles relations with our friend organizations in Otaniemi. Arranges meetings, stays in touch, and explores opportunities to expand cooperation to other organizations in Otaniemi. If necessary, connects people from TKO-äly and friend organizations.

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International student coordinator / KV-vastaava

Responsible for helping international students join TKO-äly and including them in the organization's activities, as well as responsible for their well-being in the organization. Ensures that all information is also available in English and helps with translation if necessary. Is a contactperson between international tutors and TKO-äly, helps international tutors if necessary.

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Data science coordinator // Datatiede-vastaava

Is a contact person for the Data Science master's program. Makes sure that the Data Science students are welcomed into TKO-äly’s events and functions.

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Hustle master // Pöhinävastaava

The duties of the Hustle master include getting TKO-äly and its members to participate in various hustle activities, such as hackathons, workshops, innovation challenges, and startup and entrepreneurship events. The Hustle master organizes or is involved in organizing hustle events with partners, for example hackathons Fuksikoodit and Laudekoodit.

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Hustle team // Pöhinätiimi

The members of the Hustle team help the Hustle master in their tasks, and in the events organized by the team, according to each team member’s skills and interests. Mainly, the hustle team hustles hard.

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Auditors // Toiminnantarkastajat

At the end of the year, they inspect TKO-äly’s accounting and ensure that the Associations Act and TKO-äly’s rules have been followed in decision making. They submit an audit report to the association's spring meeting. Two auditors are selected.

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Vice-auditors // Varatoiminnantarkastajat

Both auditors have a personal vice-auditor.

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