Every fall, elections are held to elect or re-elect house leaders, who ensure the smooth functioning of Steiner.  Both new and existing residents are welcome to run for positions; there is no length of time a resident must live in the house before choosing to run for a position, and there are no term-limits.  We have eleven leadership positions, outlined below.

Executive Team:

• President

  • Serves as a liaison between Steiner House and the Advisory Board; works with the rest of the executive team to schedule monthly house meetings; leads monthly house meetings; collaborates with all residents to make house-wide decisions; meets with and disciplines house members when they fail to carry out house duties, as directed by the house manual and constitution

• Vice President 

  • Supports the president; assists the president in leading house meetings and making house-wide decisions or conducting disciplinary meetings; plans monthly social events for the house; runs the social media for the house

• Secretary

  • Works with the executive team to notify all residents in advance of monthly meetings; emails all residents an agenda prior to each house meeting; takes notes at each meeting and properly saves the notes for reference

• Treasurer

  • Collects all residents room and board checks each month; monitors and calculates monthly household income and expenses; gives a report on the balanced house budget at monthly meetings

House Managers:

• House Jobs Manager

  • Assigns all residents a weekly cleaning chore 

  • Reviews photographic proof from our Discord server to ensure residents completed chores during the allotted time frame

• Scheduling Manager

  • Schedules residents on a regular rotation for cooking duties, kitchen-helper duties, and shopping-helper duties (see column to the right to learn about these duties)

• Ordering Manager

  • Orders weekly communal food items for the house; orders residents' individual weekly food items; confirms the dinner orders for those who are cooking in a given week

• Admissions Manager

  • Recruits new applicants; reviews written applications and shares with all house members; conducts Zoom interviews with applicants; gathers input from existing house members on written applications and interviews; provides accepted applicants with all necessary information to move into Steiner; assigns new residents to rooms

• Maintenance Managers (2)

  • Monitors the physical condition of all aspects of the house; takes reports from residents when residents notice repairs are needed; consults with board members and repair professionals to determine what is needed to repair damage; schedule professionals to conduct repairs

• Website Manager

  • Monitors and updates the website, as needed

There are four main duties required of each house member.  These include a weekly house job, cooking, cleaning the kitchen (AKA "kitchen helper"), and sorting the weekly grocery order (AKA "shopping helper").  Below are the duties described in detail:

Weekly House Job

• Each weekend, all residents are assigned a cleaning chore, such as cleaning a bathroom, vacuuming the hallways, sweeping and tidying a common room, etc.

• These chores usually take between 20-45 minutes to complete, based on the level of difficulty

• Residents are assigned different chores each week so no resident will have to do a high-difficulty task multiple weeks in a row

• Residents have between Friday morning and Monday at noon to complete their house job

Cooking

• Dinner is a major social event at Steiner; despite how many residents we have, we all gather at the dining table, enjoy our meal, and talk

• Each day, dinner is cooked by a different resident; house members are assigned to cook approximately once every two to three weeks, depending on the number of residents currently occupying the house

• At the beginning of each semester, residents provide their evening availability to the scheduling manager, so house members can avoid being scheduled to cook on evenings that they have class or extracurricular obligations

Kitchen Helper

• The kitchen helper does a few tasks to help the cook prepare for dinner, including setting out plates, cups, and silverware

• If residents are away from the house during dinner, they can request a plate of food to be made up for them and stored for later (we call these "saves"); once the cook is ready to serve, the kitchen helper makes the "saves" and then calls residents who are at the home to come for dinner

• The kitchen helper is then responsible for doing the dishes and cleaning the kitchen after dinner; the kitchen is the most frequently used common space in the house, so sanitation is highly important

• Like with cooking, kitchen helpers are scheduled once every two to three weeks

Shopping Helper

• Every Saturday morning, the house gets all of its groceries delivered to our doorstep

• Shopping helpers are responsible for bringing the groceries inside and sorting them into three categories: communal food, items for the week's dinners, and individual food items

• Two shopping helpers are assigned every Saturday, so with the number of residents Steiner has, residents are scheduled for this duty only about once every 8-10 weeks