2023 IASJ Service Bureau Coordinator Report and
IASJ Executive Director Report
In 2023 Wouter Turkenburg operated in a dual role for the IASJ:
- IASJ Service Bureau Coordinator
- IASJ Executive Director.
IASJ Executive Director
The tasks of the Executive Director are non-paid, as is stated in the statutes.
The main tasks are:
- networking and representing the IASJ at conferences, meetings, events;
- maintaining contacts with, and servicing the IASJ membership, the IASJ Artistic Director, the IASJ Board;
- (co)organizing IASJ Jazz Meetings and IASJ Conferences.
In 2023, the main activities were:
- Assisting in organizing the 2023 IASJ Jazz Meeting in Helsinki, Finland;
- Coordinating the research component of the 2023 IASJ Jazz Meeting;
- Presenting the IASJ Research Journal at the GMTH Conference in September, Freiburg, Germany;
- Co-organizing and presenting the IASJ Research Journal at the IASJ Research Conference in Graz, Austria (collaboration of the IASJ, KUG Performance, Research, and Music Aesthetics Institutes);
- Coordinating postponing the 2024 IASJ Jazz Meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel;
- Preparing the IASJ presence during the 2024 AEC PJP Platform in Odense, Denmark.
IASJ Service Bureau Coordinator
The main tasks of the SBC in 2023 were:
- handling the payment of membership fee of over 90 individual, ordinary and associate members;
- completing the switch to the semi-automatic bookkeeping system ‘MoneyBird’;
- determining long term non-paying members, booking them as ‘uncollectable revenues’, thereby creating a more realistic (large negative amount) ‘results of operations’ in the 5-year report;
- setting up the financial reports: the ledger-account and the five-year report, with assistance of the MoneyBird virtual assistant (Petra van de Ende);
- presenting the financial reports to the bookkeeper (Monique de Adelhart Toorop) for control;
- presenting and explaining the Financial Reports with the ‘Financial Committee’;
- presenting the 5-year report, the balance and the financial planning in the General Assembly;
- collecting information, writing, editing and sending out the monthly IASJ News Update;
- setting up, updating and maintaining websites of future meetings as well as the past ones;
- digitalization of the IASJ achieve.
- producing the research activities of the IASJ: conferences, editor-in-chief of the IASJ Research Journal.
The compensation for the work of the IASJ Service Bureau Coordinator is paid via a payroll service called ‘TenToo’.
The ‘office’ is a ‘flex-office’ in Leiden, called Unit2. Space is rented one day a week.
The archive of the IASJ is in a 12m2 box in ‘All-Safe’, a self-storage building.
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