Jakki Doyle as Policy and Transition Manager
Written by Dan Howse

The Central Student Assocaition (CSA) has recently created a new position called Policy and Transition Manager. Former CSA Finance and Human Resource Commissioner, Jakki Doyle, was selected for the position and hired on a one year contract.
While many governments are frequently characterized as being overly bureaucratic and inefficient, this hire is far from extraneous or irrelevant.
With the turnover that one-year elected positions necessitate, one of the policy and transition manager’s primary responsibilities is the development and upkeep of transition materials and operating manuals for the service and programs within the CSA.
“Right now, all the services operate with their own form of transition, which is maybe a little more inefficient than it could be,” said Doyle.
Doyle is optimistic that this continuity will not only help make the CSA more efficient, but an organization that consistently improves.
“If someone’s excelling and doing a really great job one year, in two years a new staff member might not ever have met that person and they wouldn’t know what the benefits were of how they did their job,” said Doyle.
The policy and transition manager’s other primary responsibilities include the review of all CSA policies and bylaws as well as serving as the chair of the CSA Policy and Bylaw Review Committee. This encompasses a former student position, that of researcher. They are currently in overlap, but in the future, the researcher position will be incorporated into the policy and transition manager’s responsibilities.
Doyle’s portfolio is also responsible for overseeing student elections. The policy and transition manager thus encompasses the electoral CEO position, which was also formerly a student job.
Lastly, Doyle acts as a board resource. The policy and transition manager is responsible for some of the clerical duties associated with board of director meetings, coordinating the board of director training and generally acting as a resource to the chair with regard to policies, bylaws and Roberts’ Rules (guidelines for efficiently running meetings).
Doyle’s emphasis on continuity, growth and efficiency through analysis and evaluation starts with herself.
“There’s an administrative component involving the review of the job itself because the position is new,” said Doyle.
Doyle thinks the new position will not just help transition CSA members from year to year but also help synchronize various programs and initiatives within the CSA.
“The CSA has a lot of people working for it who are really passionate about what they’re doing but it’s not centralized in any kind of organized way,” she said.
Doyle feels that she can help provide that organization.
“One of my biggest goals is achieving that efficiency and really making sure there’s positive, forward motion,” said Doyle. “My job is not to create new services or change what’s currently working, but to facilitate passing on what’s working.”
Any students with efficiency concerns regarding the CSA can find Doyle at the CSA office in the second floor of the UC.

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