✍️ Position Summary

This role consists of facilitating the Scriptwriting writing group, which meets weekly during the quarter. The goal of the Scriptwriting group is to give playwrights, screenwriters, and other types of scriptwriters opportunities to generate work and hear their work read aloud in a relaxed and constructive setting. More information about guidelines is under the “guidelines and expectations” section on the Scriptwriting group Notion.

The group is typically run by two facilitators working in partnership to manage and balance responsibilities. The Writing Groups Student Leader supports the facilitators through regular check-ins and offers guidance and resources for facilitation, materials, and promotion.

✨ Principle Duties & Responsibilities

Facilitate weekly Scriptwriting Group meetings (60%)

Facilitate collaborative and writer-centered meetings, setting agendas based on the specific group’s needs and interests
- Consider the amount of time, amount and scale of shared work (including where writers are in their writing processes), and type of writing
Read scripts aloud and provide feedback as a group based on what we heard, read, and felt
- Create space for constructive feedback and growth
- Emphasize asking questions over making assumptions!
Facilitators may also want to:
- Create opportunities for members to promote their productions and films
- Bridge the writing with the practical production of the scripts—from our experiences as theatre and film majors, consider how scripts would function practically

Plan meetings (30%)

Invite writers via email to attend meetings and bring work to read
- Review Google form that describes writers’ goals for the meeting and compile form results into a Google Sheet
Document plans in the Scriptwriting group Notion
- Record the agenda, activities, attendance, post-meeting notes, and any other necessary documentation
- Regularly update larger to-dos and individual meeting goals and planning
Prepare generative activities for meetings as needed, based on survey responses and writers’ needs
- As part of collaborative agenda-setting, activities can either build rapport among the group members, inspire further writing during the meeting, or be condensed if writers have a lot to share
- Document generative activities in the Scriptwriting Notion

Perform other administrative and recordkeeping duties (10%)

Send weekly emails to the Scriptwriting group email list
Enter participants for each meeting into WCOnline