Endorsed Age Managers

The role of Junior Activities Accreditation Officer has been removed to avoid a double handling of information. Evaluations can now be signed off by “Endorsed Age Managers” as outlined below. This aims to ease the load on positions required at a Club level. This process should be managed with thorough care and consideration, considering that these members sign their name to Nipper competencies should any issues arise. Each Club can have up to a maximum of 9 skilled and knowledgeable Age Managers who can complete this task. We ask that you please do not endorse first-year Age Managers for this role unless they have prior lifesaving experience.

Pre-requisites:

• Minimum 18 years of age
• Financial
• Blue Card
• Child Youth Risk Management Strategies (CYRMS) & Child Safe Awareness (CSA)
• Current and proficient Age Manager Award
  

To endorse your Endorsed Age Managers, we ask that each season, your Junior Committee list and suggest key Age Managers who will undertake this important role. Once agreed upon at a Junior meeting, these members must also be endorsed and minuted by your senior club Committee/Board at either a meeting or via flying minute.

Following the endorsement process, they will need to be noted under “other” in the notes section of the members surfguard profile (as seen below):

Before a Member is noted in SurfGuard, they must meet all prerequisites, complete the “Endorsed Age Manager Code of Conduct” (formerly the ‘JAAO Code of Conduct’), and submit it to their Club. This must be kept on file for a minimum of twelve months. When allocating your endorsed Age Managers – these will also be the people you allocate award approval access to within the Nipper App. All other Age Managers will require attendance access only.

A copy of your senior minutes or a snipped section showing endorsement, as well as the signed code of conduct must then be forwarded to your Branch office.

A copy of the Code of Conduct can be found here:
EAM code of conduct signature