Hey there readers! Here’s another installment in our ongoing series about who and what ExCom is and how they help keep the wheels on this machine.
ExCom is the core of Kiwiburn’s structure. By core, we mean the middle, like an apple core, it’s not a metric of importance. It’s made up of three officers – Chair, Secretary and Treasurer – plus nine Facilitators.
If you’re more visually minded, here’s a handy diagram.
The Facilitators are the real connective tissue of the organisation. Each one is responsible for a major area of the event: Arts, Theme Camps, Communications, Crew, Infrastructure, Services, Site Safety, Well-being, and Community. They don’t do all the work themselves. Instead, they support and guide the leads of almost 40 volunteer teams, making sure those teams have what they need to succeed. That might mean finding people, rethinking a process that is outdated, passing on key information, or helping teams get access to resources.
This design means ExCom members are not buried in every single decision. Facilitators act as bridges between volunteers on the ground and the wider organisation, so teams can stay focused on the job at hand. ExCom becomes a hub for communication and coordination, rather than a bottleneck.
It’s not just when you see the Effigy burn or walk through the Temple that you have a facilitator to thank.
Using the toilets, seeing the Art installations, or even just the ‘roads’ that we walk along: it’s worth remembering that behind each of those experiences is a Facilitator and a volunteer team that made it possible.
Image credit: Daniel Wagner
