At the 2010 AGM, the four TMS Officer posts described below become vacant. Following the closure date for nominations to be made to the Secretary the Society has four candidates nominated for election to these offices:

President:            Professor M. Paul Smith (University of Birmingham) - Personal webpage

Membership Secretary:    Dr George Swann (BGS) - Personal webpage

Special Publications Editor:    Dr Mark Williams (University of Leicester) - Personal webpage

Newsletter Editor:        Dr Magali Schweizer (University of Edinburgh) - Personal webpage

Description of roles

President
The President is the senior officer of the Society. He or she prepares and chairs Committee meetings and the Annual General Meeting, and represents and promotes the Society in all matters between the meetings. The President is one of the Trustees of TMS under the UK Charity Commission regulations and is liable to safeguard the proper usage of TMS funds. The Tenure of the President is three years and the incumbent cannot be reelected.

Membership Secretary
The Membership Secretary is responsible for: producing and dispatching membership invoices at the beginning of each year, processing membership fee payments, producing and dispatching reminders when appropriate, maintaining and updating the membership database and issuing membership numbers, advising the Secretary and Webmaster of new member details for mailing list and web access, dispatching letters of welcome to new members, answer membership and general enquiries, dispatching back issues of Journal and Newsletter to new members.

Newsletter Editor
The Newsletter Editor is responsible for producing the biannual Newsletter of Micropalaeontology published by TMS. This involves: soliciting content from officers of the society and specialist group representatives; announcing meetings of interest to the micropalaeontological world and commissioning reports from those meetings; collating reports from affiliated societies; collecting general micropalaeontological news items; assembling all content into a suitable page layout; printing and distribution of the final newsletter to the membership and affiliated societies.

Special Publications Editor
Information to follow.