Gator Ready Ambassadors

What are Gator Ready Ambassadors?

At Gator Ready, our Ambassador Team is dedicated to spreading awareness and facilitating engagement with the Gator Ready platform across the UF business/accounting community. Their purpose is to help students not only understand how to use the Gator Ready platform, but how to take advantage of the platform to reach their own personal and professional goals.

What do Gator Ready Ambassadors do?

Gator Ready Ambassadors are dedicated to empowering Warrington students by promoting professional development and enhancing the Gator Ready platform. Ambassadors engage with the student body by attending key events such as the Professional Development Summit, Business Bash, and Warrington Wednesday. They also deliver educational presentations to classes and student organizations, sharing valuable insights and resources.

Beyond event participation, Gator Ready Ambassadors are innovators, continuously brainstorming creative ways to make the platform more beneficial for students. Through initiatives like prize pickups, competency workshops, and more, they ensure that Gator Ready remains a valuable tool for career preparation and success.

Committees

Gator Ready is divided into multiple committees. Each committee is responsible for different aspects of running Gator Ready. Committees enable you to put your leadership into practice, turn your ideas into action, make a measurable impact in the business school, and gain essential experience for future leadership positions. Committees include:

  • General Administration Committee
  • Marketing Committee
  • Quality Assurance Committee
  • External Relations Committee
  • Events & Engagements Committee

General Administration Committee

The General Administration Committee focuses on Suitable and building faculty relations within the business college. On Suitable, we create and approve activities and events for student organizations, programs, and Business College Council (BCC) sponsored events. General Administration ensures all students and faculty know how to use Gator Ready via the Suitable platform and to make it a smooth user experience.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage the backend of Suitable (e.g., approve submissions, create activities)
  • Analyze Suitable metrics to improve the student and faculty experience
  • Foster relationships with faculty members of the business school
  • Maintain internal relations and plan logistics with the other committees

Marketing Committee

The Marketing Committee is responsible for promoting the Gator Ready brand and engaging students through creative, strategic marketing initiatives. Our goal is to increase awareness of Gator Ready’s resources and programs, helping students develop essential skills for their professional journey. The committee plays a vital role in ensuring Gator Ready’s visibility across campus, making it accessible and relevant to students.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage Gator Ready’s social media presence (Instagram, Facebook, etc.)
  • Create and execute content strategies to promote Gator Ready events and updates
  • Collaborate with other committees to highlight programs, initiatives, and successes
  • Design and distribute promotional materials (e.g., flyers, merchandise)
  • Analyze social media metrics to improve engagement strategies

Quality Assurance Committee

Through Quality Assurance, we support Gator Ready by ensuring standards are upheld and creating standards that we believe will improve GR. Quality Assurance members are sent work to double-check and ensure that anything that will be shared/presented doesn’t have any errors. This makes running the organization easier and presents GR as its most professional self.

Responsibilities:

  • Perform quality checks on all submitted work
  • Maintain organized, easily accessible files and information
  • Establish new standards to improve the organization and streamline processes
  • Review and update standards each term to ensure they remain effective

External Relations Committee

The External Relations Committee consists of two sectors: Heavener Sponsored Programs and General Student Organizations. We facilitate and manage deep meaningful relationships with each of the core Heavener Sponsored Programs to ensure their utilization of Gator Ready goes smoothly. Additionally, we explain the benefits and functionality of Gator Ready to all BCC registered student organizations to aid the wider student body.

Responsibilities:

  • Individual meetings with each of the 50+ general BCC student orgs
  • Manage relationships with individual contacts with Heavener Sponsored Programs
  • Maintain internal organization of student org & program contacts
  • Work with other committees to facilitate use of Gator Ready for student org events

Events and Engagement Committee

The Events and Engagement Committee is responsible for the successful planning and execution of events that Gator Ready hosts or facilitates, including tabling events, student organization meetings, class lectures, and workshops.The committee ensures that there are adequate ambassadors to staff the event and provides support to ambassadors as needed.

Responsibilities:

  • Track events facilitated or hosted by Gator Ready
  • Coordinate scheduling and manage logistical needs for each event
  • Oversee and manage upcoming ambassador commitments
  • Provide on-site and remote support to ambassadors during events
  • Identify and explore new event opportunities for Gator Ready

How do I get involved?

Contact an ambassador today!

Questions?

Catherine Coe

Catherine Coe
Director of Gator Ready
Email Catherine

If you would like to request a Gator Ready demo or have questions about using Gator Ready please email a Gator Ready Ambassador.