A manager leads a department. The department is a team with one job that runs across the whole conference, and the manager is responsible for that job being done.
A manager is a Student Officer. See What is a Student Officer.
A manager is a Student Officer. The members of their department are staff, and they are Administrative Staff, but they are not Student Officers. See What is a Member.
A manager plans the department's work, divides it between the members, and checks that it is finished.
Before the conference, that means working out what the department has to produce and when. During the conference, it means running the department day by day, covering the gaps, and answering for the department when something goes wrong. After the conference, it means finishing what is left.
A manager also looks after the people in the department. A member who is given nothing to do learns nothing, and a member who is given everything to do stops coming.
In MEDIMUN, each department has its own specialised job, its own manager and its own members. See Departments and How a department runs.
A manager assigns work through the conference platform, so that everyone can see what they have been asked to do and by when.
In MEDIMUN, managers, the Secretariat and the executive board put all tasks in MediBook. If a task is not in MediBook, the person it was given to is not required to do it. See Tasks for managers.
Work asked for outside MediBook. A corridor, a chat message or a word in passing is not a task. If you want it done, put it in MediBook. This protects the member as much as the manager.
In MEDIMUN, managers do not use personal email addresses for conference business. Staff who have a conference mailbox use that. See Mail.
If the department's job is not done, the manager answers for it. That is what leading a team means.
It also means a manager escalates early. A problem that a department cannot solve on its own goes to the Secretariat. It goes there while there is still time to fix it.
In MEDIMUN, each department has named people in the senior team who are responsible for it. Those are the people a manager goes to. See Departmental responsibility.
If you are unsure whether a piece of work belongs to your department, ask before you take it on and before you refuse it. Two departments both assuming the other has it is the most common way something is missed.
In MEDIMUN, the Managers are drawn only from students of The English School, which is the school that organises MEDIMUN. See Becoming staff.
Everything expected of staff applies to a manager, and the standard is higher because a manager sets the tone for a whole department. See What is expected of staff and The manager guide.
In MEDIMUN, the attendance policy is full attendance, unless the executive board has agreed otherwise in advance. It applies to a manager as it applies to the members of the department.