Competitions

The role of the Competitions Committee is to own the structure and rules for all senior UKU competitions.  This will also include working with the Uni and Junior divisions to ensure UKU adopts a broadly consistent approach to competitions.

The DoC and CEO are members of this group.  The remainder of the committee is appointed by the DoC from people who apply for the role.  Any UKU member can apply to be on the committee but it is kept relatively small (no more than 9 people including the DoC and CEO).  Posts will be renewed annually, but in general the goal is that individuals will be involved for longer than one year.

Key tasks:

• Agree and publish the UKU events calendar well in advance
• Maintain and publish UKU Competition rules
• Review and update the competition structure in the context of a growing and changing population of players
• Ensure that UKU competitions/rules are well structured in the context of international competitions, such as WUCC and EUCS
• Work with international competition committees (e.g. WFDF Ultimate committee and EUCS committee) to ensure that we are well represented in those discussions, and have visibility of international competition plans.
• Attend UKU Conference for an annual face-to-face planning/review meeting and be available to answer questions from members attending the conference

Event Bids

The role of the Bids Committee is to provide clear ownership of the process of deciding who will run UKU tournaments.

The committee will be appointed by the Director of Competitions. 
The CEO is a member of the committee in order to support the process, but does not have a vote.

Key tasks:

• Ensure there is simple process for bidding for UKU events
• Ensure events are well advertised to potential bidders
• Discuss bids for UKU events and award the event to the successful bid
• Provide brief documentation of decisions to be available to members
• Allow division-specific committees to continue to run process where it is working effectively and the committee has better knowledge of details (i.e. Junior, Uni events)

Scheduling

The role of the Scheduling Committee is to:

• Deliver format and schedules for the main outdoor UKU events
• Support TDs (esp. for UKU events) in producing the best possible formats/schedules for their competition
• Provide a resource of tournament formats/schedules for members to use in their own tournaments

Women

The Women’s Committee main aims are to:

• Act as communication group between women players and other areas of UKU – in particular the Board and Competition Committee.
• Encourage and promote all aspects of women’s ultimate – in particular to support growth in the number of women players
• Take responsibility for rules and competition structure questions that are specific to the Women division.
• Maintain and update the content in the Women’s area of the UKU website.

The Women’s committee is run using an “approved volunteer” system.  The approval process is handled by the existing committee.

Look here for more information about the committee's goals and the current members.

Junior

The Junior Ultimate committee, led by the Junior Coordinator is responsible for:

• Managing and coaching GB Junior squads
• Administrating UKU Junior tournaments
• Developing Youth Ultimate
• Promoting the work of Youth Ultimate
• Managing the finance and funraising of Youth Ultimate

The committee has set targets to be a world leader in Youth Ultimate. To achieve these targets we need dedicated volunteers across the UK, to contribute their time and effort towards the work of the Junior Committee.

The Junior Committee is currently recuiting for a number of positions.

• Communication & Enquiries Officer
• Junior Director of Competitions
• Junior Committee Treasurer
• Publicity (PR)
• Fundraiser
• Youth Ultimate Development Group

If any of these roles look appealing to you, please read the job descriptions and
submit an email of interest (including who you are, your experience, and a brief about why you believe you could make a difference in that role) to: uk_jr_ultimate@yahoogroups.com

If you would like to support the committee but do not wish to apply for one of the positions above, please submit an email of interest (including who you are, your experience, and a brief explanation of what area you would like to help in) to: uk_jr_ultimate@yahoogroups.com

These roles are a great opportunity to be a change maker and really move Ultimate forward in the UK. They are also a great tool to fatten up someone’s C.V. There are countless stories about volunteers in Ultimate roles such as these who have ended up capturing the attention of employers, universities, etc! Its win-win.

University

The UU Coordinators Committee is responsible for University Ultimate.  The main tasks are:

• Running the tournament allocation process for UKU University Championships: Regionals and Nationals, indoors and outdoors across open, women and mixed divisions
• Providing advice/interpretation/adjudication on eligibility and roster questions
• Supporting regional development of university ultimate

Regional coordinators are elected at regional AGMs at outdoor open regional qualifiers.

Medical Team

We are fortunate to have the support of Dr Usamah Jannoun, our Chief Medical Advisor, and a group of physiotherapists and osteopaths that support UK Ultimate and in particular our Great Britain teams.

The team is led by Dr Jannoun, and also includes: Monica Franke, Clare Whittingham, Andy Kelly, Jo Vokes.

Dr Usamah Jannoun MD FFSEM (UK) DMS-Med DSportEx-Med was appointed to the voluntary role of Chief Medical Advisor for UK Ultimate in 2007.

Usamah has worked with sportsmen and recreational athletes for over 15 years in the UK and abroad (Switzerland, Germany, Bermuda) and brings with him a wealth of clinical experience. A keen sportsman himself, his interest lay in Sport and Exercise Medicine and his philosophy is to keep his patients active and fit. He works full-time as a Sport Physician in London amongst a team of leading UK physicians. He is a keen practitioner of many techniques, uses Ultrasound and MRI as diagnostic tools and traditional Orthopaedic and Osteopathic techniques of treatment as well as acupuncture and spinal pain relieving injections.

Usamah teaches and lectures both nationally and internationally to a wide audience in Musculoskeletal and Sport and Exercise Medicine. He is Clinical Tutor for BASEM, the Bath University Postgraduate Diploma/MSc in Sport and Exercise Medicine and to the British Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine (BIMM) modular courses attended by mostly GPs and Sports Physicians. He is instructor to the national Peripheral Injection Road Show for physicians and has taught senior physiotherapists on the Society of Orthopaedic Medicine (SOM) injection courses.

Usamah's mostly works with the GB teams at the moment. The plan is that gradually the team will be able to help us improve the medical/physio cover at UKU (and other) tournaments, and provide information for all UKU members.

Grants Committee

The Grants Committee is in place to make decisions about distributing funds from the Development and Innovations Grants Scheme.

Coach Educators

The role of the Coach Educator team is to:

• Deliver UKU Coaching courses
• Progress the extension and development of the UKU Coaching Scheme

Members of the Coach Educator team are appointed by invitation from the existing group on the basis of playing and coaching experience.

Temporary Committees

From time to time the board appoints a small group of people to deal with a specific question or issue.  

Most commonly this is done as a selection mechanism for coach, captain, and/or management positions for the GB teams.  In this case the usual approach is to delegate the task of considering applications to a small group of players or ex-players with significant experience of involvement with GB teams, but who have little or no personal involvement or interest in any of the applications.  The group then makes a recommendation to the Board.