2026 SAC Exec Election

Election Process

Step 1: Apply

• All candidates complete the application form.

• Applicants may indicate interest in up to three roles and must answer the application questions for each role selected.

Step 2: Uncontested Roles

• If a role has only one applicant, that candidate will be offered the position.

• If a candidate’s first-choice role is contested but one of their lower-ranked choices is uncontested, they may choose to:

  • Accept the uncontested role, or

  • Remain in the election for their contested first-choice role.

Step 3: Elections

• Any role with more than one applicant will go to a club-wide vote.

• Candidates’ application responses will be shared with club members.

• Voting will take place via a Google Form distributed by email (you must use a Stanford email). 

• All dues-paying members are eligible to vote (we will confirm that only votes submitted by current club members are counted).

• The candidate who receives the most votes wins.

Timeline

• March 11, 5:30 pm: Election info session at the Outdoor Center (before club social)

• April 1, 11:59 pm: Applications due

• April 2: Candidates announced and voting opens

• April 6, 11:59 pm: Voting closes

New officers will transition into their roles in early Spring Quarter.

Roles and Responsibilities 

*All executive members attend monthly planning meetings

President

• Birds-eye view, making sure everything gets done

• Send out weekly emails to the listserv with updates and announcements

• Schedule, create agenda for and lead monthly exec meetings

• Responding to (or forwarding) emails

• Interface with the outdoor center, the adventure clubs director and the ASSU

• Organizing fall introductory meeting and GOALIE booth

• Oversee keeping the SAC website up-to-date

Vice President

• Manage membership forms and approvals

• Update email listservs and Google Drive membership

• Support trip coordinator with common adventure grant program 

• Organize Reel Rock

Financial Officer 

• Apply for grants

• Process member reimbursements

• Communicate financial rules and procedures to exec and members 

• Manage Epay for dues

• Lead the creation of an annual and/or quarterly budget

• Keep track of expenses and communicate this with the rest of exec

Trip Coordinator

• Book yosemite campsites monthly (and remind other exec to attempt to book as well)

• Manage Yosemite campsite usage

• Organize/support other weekend trips

  • Run at least one ‘trailhead’-style club-wide trip 

    • e.g., Point Reyes backpacking trip, Shasta trailfest, bishop bouldering weekend, etc.

• Manage Common Adventure Grant program 

  • Respond to questions from interested members, support members with their applications

  • Notify ‘review committee’ of new applications, lead conversation to assess them

  • Communicate decisions with applicants

  • Support grant recipients with trip planning

Social Chair(s)

*We will have two social chairs if interest in the role permits

• Organize socials and other miscellaneous events (minimum of two per quarter)

• Create and manage the sale of merchandise 

• Keep the SAC website updated with upcoming events

• Manage social media

Women's+ Chair

• Organize events and initiatives that serve women and non-binary club members through community building, mentorship, skill development and other means.

• Keep the ‘Women's+’ page on the SAC website up-to-date

Skill Development Coordinator

• Lead the LTCC partnership

  • Work with LTCC to schedule courses based on projected interest 

  • Advertise courses to the club, solicit signups, run lottery to select participants, communicate participant list to LTCC

  • Make a group chat with confirmed course participants

  • Answer (or forward) questions about LTCC courses

  • Keep the LTCC info page on the website up-to-date

• Organize other opportunities for skill developement (such as Outdoor Center skill clinics)

Wilderness Medicine Chair

• Establish wilderness medicine and outdoor survival skill building and education. Examples of possible initiatives include: 

  • Coordinating with the Wilderness Med Dept., Emergency Medicine Interest Group, and Stanford outdoor center to organize skill-building events (including physician/resident-led workshops, WFA/WFR courses and practice sessions)

  • Hosting a wilderness medicine speaker series 

  • Organizing a SAC group to participate in a MedWAR Challenge

  • Arranging a SAC group to volunteer in wilderness medicine roles (such as sending qualified WFRs to medic tent at trail races)

  • Facilitating a ‘Medicine for the Outdoors’ book club 

  • Coordinating an overnight camping trip with a med/survival skill component

IKON Liaison

• Manage relationship with IKON

• Communicate with club members about IKON pass procedures (including responding to emails)

• Confirm student statuses and distribute discount codes

*As IKON liaison is not a club-facing, if the role is contested it will be decided internally by the outgoing exec rather than going to election

*IKON liaison is not required to attend all monthly exec meetings 

Stanford Alpine Journal Team

Become part of our journal’s production team — as an editor, layout designer, illustrator, community liaison, or in another role. If you're interested, reach out to Bendix at kemmann@stanford.edu!

Questions? Email Katie (katienb@stanford.edu) with general questions about the election process, or reach out to any current exec member to learn more about their position (find contact info on our About Us page).

Ready to join the team? Apply here!