- Advertised from 2nd March 2022
- 37.5 hpw. Permanent.
- Annual Leave: 35 days per year
Role
The Welfare and Liberation Coordinator is the Students’ Association’s lead staff member on activity relating to student welfare and wellbeing, liberation, equality, diversity, and inclusion, requiring an in-depth awareness and understanding of both student-led and institutional work in these areas.
While our student representatives gather feedback and identify emerging issues, and our Advice Place team provide 1-2-1 support and guidance for students in challenging circumstances, your role is to use this information to inform the organisations strategic approach to these issues.
Alongside colleagues in the Representation and Democracy team, they empower our five Sabbatical Officers – and particularly the Vice Welfare – to pursue their objectives, providing advice on achieving social and institutional change, as well as project planning and professional support.
They are also the key staff contact for the Students’ Association’s five Liberation Officers who represent Black and Minority Ethnic (BME), disabled, LGBT+, trans and non-binary, and women students. Again, they are responsible for providing project planning and professional support, as well as insight into how the Officers can best achieve their objectives, and build their student communities.
This role also includes significant elements of project management, particularly in relation to the Students’ Association’s work on mental health; equality, diversity, and inclusion; and our Liberation History Months, as well as training delivery to student leaders on issues on relevant topics.
The Person:
We’re looking for a confident and enthusiastic individual, with at least one year’s professional experience of project management and campaigning for change, to join our tight-knit team, committed to empowering students to make their voices heard on the issues that matter to them.
If you can not only cheerlead and champion our incredible student leaders, but also challenge them to think critically about their goals and how best to achieve them, then this could be the role for you.
You’ll need to be confident engaging with student activists and senior members of the University, maintaining an extensive network of stakeholders, and adapting your communication style – whether verbal or written – to suit a range of audiences and ensure you’re effective.
We want a team player who isn’t afraid to lend a hand to colleagues, but you also need to be able to make the most of the autonomy you’ll have over your own projects, and prioritise competing demands to achieve successful outcomes.
Employee Benefits:
- Company Pension (USS)
- Company Sick Pay
- Sodexo Discount Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Discounts on food and drink across University Campus, among others
Application notes
For a full job description, person specification and to apply online, please visit our website.
The closing date for applications is 12:00 on 30th March 2022.
Interviews will be held on 7th April.
Further information will be sent to shortlisted candidates.
Please note that applications by CV will not be accepted.
If you have any queries, please contact People & Development at jobs@eusa.ed.ac.uk.
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Top job! Chief Executive Officer
- Full time
- £65,000
- Merchiston Campus in Edinburgh, with regular travel to Craiglockhart and Sighthill Campuses within the city. (On site)
- Closing 22nd April 2024
Edinburgh Napier Students’ Association (‘ENSA’ to our friends) exists to enable students to make the most of their university experience. We do this by representing, supporting, and developing Edinburgh Napier students to be successful in their studies; to try out new things; to engage in, and contribute to university life; to be healthy and happy; to bring about positive change; and most importantly have fun to make it an unforgettable experience.
As our CEO is moving on to pastures new, we are now looking to recruit a new Chief Executive Officer who will lead a motivated and dynamic professional staff of 14 and develop and support our three sabbaticals who, each year, are elected by the student community at Edinburgh Napier. The post-holder will have the opportunity to lead on the development and delivery of a new strategic plan as our Strategy 2021 – 2024 comes to an end.
About the Role:
Under the direction of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer is accountable for the leadership, management, and sustainability of the Students’ Association, alongside providing support to the Elected Officers enabling them to fulfil their duties to the best of their potential.
In this role, you will be required to coach, develop, and provide leadership to the Students’ Association’s staff and to take responsibility for ENSA’s management and administration within the accountability frameworks established by the Board of Directors.
The role holder will not only be forward-looking, with a continuous focus on improvement but also have a deep understanding and appreciation for student issues and student experience.
We truly believe in the power of diversity and understand that different viewpoints are important to achieving goals, that's why we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.
For a comprehensive list of duties and full job description, please see the Recruitment Pack PDF.
What we will need from you:
• Experienced working at a board-level, either reporting to, or serving on a Board
• Excellent leadership, coaching and influencing skills to drive change forward.
• An excellent understanding of governance, compliance and university structures
• Writing high-quality reports and policy pieces
• Managing budgets and setting and overseeing internal controls
• Developing strategies and implementing strategic change Forging productive partnerships with stakeholders
The Post
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the University of Stirling Students’ Union as Sports Development Coordinator to plan, coordinate and deliver our comprehensive sports development programmes, in conjunction with the Sports President. You will manage and develop the Sports Administrator. You will also support sports union members, with particular focus but not exclusively, in the areas of Club Development, Participation, Health and Wellbeing and Finance & Funding.
About Us
Stirling Students’ Union is the representative student body at the University of Stirling. We are a registered charity and exist to support students getting the best degree, helping students make friends, supporting students when they need support and building skills for the future. We do this by supporting academic reps, providing volunteering opportunities, societies and sports clubs. We also offer support, employability skills, advice and opportunities to influence our sustainability work. We are proudly student led and each spring elect four full time paid students to lead our work: President, Vice President Communities, Vice President Education and Sports Union President.
About You
We’re looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our organisation. You’ll be driven, using your initiative to support a wide range of organisational initiatives, programmes and projects. Specific duties of the role include:
Club Development
· Strategic approach to development and delivery of BUCS, ensuring improvement and effective use of funding.
· Develop and implement a comprehensive plan (actions, targets, responsibilities and resources).
· Increase club membership and participation.
· Ensure clubs are accessible and inclusive to all participants.
· Contribute to the formulation of policy and procedures as required, in collaboration with other Coordinators.
· Design and deliver training for committee members of Sports Clubs.
· Effectively engage students and provide ongoing support and assistance where appropriate.
· Coordinate and deal with member discipline and complaints, contributing to effective process development.
· Assist in the recruitment of coaches to ensure quality of sports provision within clubs.
Participation & Engagement
· Work in partnership with the University to provide opportunities for students to engage in physical activity and sports.
· Work closely with the Student Sport Development Officer on participation programmes for recreational sport.
· Develop mutually beneficial relationships with external partners, (BUCS, SSS, Community Clubs and National Governing Bodies) to increase the range, and quality of sports provision and coaching services provided.
· Work with BUCS, SSS and National Governing bodies to promote volunteering opportunities.
· To monitor, evaluate and report on club activities and identify opportunities for growth.
· To be a mentor on the panel of the Tier 2 programme.
Health & Wellbeing
· Promote and evaluate student wellbeing through engagement with student sport and club activity.
· Plan and take forward projects and campaigns that aim to use physical activity and sport as a method of improving Health & Wellbeing whilst positively impacting on the student experience.
· Engage with Union, University and national campaigns and initiatives for establishing healthy and resilient student communities.
· Embed innovative practices in engaging sports members with sustainability opportunities.
Finance & Funding
· Working with Sports President and Finance Manager to ensure club funds are managed appropriately.
· Oversee the effective running of the Sports Union budget.
· Responsibility for administration of funding requests for Coaches and Capital Equipment.
· In collaboration with Union colleagues deliver signature sports events such as Sports Ball and Varsity.
· Work with Stakeholders on the Kit Tender process.
We are looking for a full-time Team Leader to join our dynamic team in Edinburgh.
In this position, you will lead a team of Project Workers as they provide support and opportunity to the adults who attend Upmo.
On a day-to-day basis, Team Leaders supervise and coordinate activities on site, provided support to staff, ensure onsite operations are in line with policy and procedure and assist Team Managers with case and site management. We are looking for a confident communicator with excellent leadership skills and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
This Team Leader position is primarily based in our service in Edinburgh, where we offer workshop activities to adults with learning disabilities and autism from Links House in Leith, and St. Margaret's House at Meadowbank.
The starting salary for this position is £24,100.
No formal qualification is necessary, but experience of working in social care is preferred.
The Post
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the University of Stirling Students’ Union as Content & Events Coordinator to plan, coordinate and deliver communications activity as well as run events to enhance the student experience. You will take lead responsibility for the Union’s digital and social media communications, creating engaging and varied content. You will regularly track and evaluate delivery being data-led in your next project. With high levels of administrative skill, you will also support colleagues across the Union with promotional activity and help deliver Union events including Welcome Week and Awards Balls.
About Us
Stirling Students’ Union is the representative student body at the University of Stirling. We are a registered charity and exist to support students getting the best degree, helping students make friends, supporting students when they need support and building skills for the future. We do this by supporting academic reps, providing volunteering opportunities, societies and sports clubs. We also offer support, employability skills, advice and opportunities to influence our sustainability work. We are proudly student led and each spring elect four full time paid students to lead our work: President, Vice President Communities, Vice President Education and Sports Union President.
About You
We’re looking for a talented and passionate individual to join our organisation. You’ll be driven, using your initiative to support a wide range of organisational initiatives, programmes and projects. Specific duties of the role include:
Content
• Lead on day-to-day planning, design, creation and delivery of social media content to support all Union activity.
• Work with the Communications & Activities Manager to deliver an annual programme of Union activity and implement processes to support colleagues in the timely design and planning of such activity.
• Coordinate communication and promotion of all areas of Union services and programmes including our membership areas and retail operations.
• Plan and complete administrative tasks to support Union activity.
• Work with the Sabbatical Officers to ensure the effective delivery of Officer content and campaign activity across all Union communication channels.
• Lead on the development, analysis and impact of all social media and digital communications (including email and website), producing regular reports for colleagues on activity performance.
• Develop project plans for key organisational activity in collaboration with relevant Students’ Union staff and Officers.
• Keep up-to-date with current trends and to assess how these innovative practices can be implemented to enhance communication between the Union and its members.
• Have input into the on-going development and delivery of all Union communication channels.
• Co-ordinate any additional promotional materials required for the Union (including but not limited to pull-up banners, publications, printed promotional materials).
• Promote good practice across the Union in the use of Union branding and support societies/sports teams with guidance on use of the Union visual identity.
• Lead training for staff, Sabbatical Officers, societies and sports teams on use of social media to support Union activity.
• Contribute across the various areas of the Students’ Union to help deliver on the Students’ Union strategic plan.
• Work with the University communications team on collaborative programmes.
• Support Union marketing activity across all relevant functions.
Events
• Lead on organising, promoting and evaluating all Union events, delivering on time and within budget.
• Ensure regular monitoring of activity to ensure proper processes are in place and relevant costs/income are fully considered.
• Lead on the development and delivery of the Union’s activity during Welcome Weeks in the autumn and spring semester involving colleagues across the Union team and working closely with the University Events team.
• Working with Union colleagues, support the development and delivery of events such as the Societies Awards Ball, Sports Union Awards Ball, Inspirational Women Awards and the RATE Teaching Awards.
• Work with external partners to support our digital events platform and associated ticketing process.
• Work with societies and sports teams where appropriate to support their delivery of student focused events.
• Work closely with the University Events team to support the Union’s input across events such as Open Days and Applicant Days and Welcome Weeks.
• Work closely and collaboratively with the University’s student belonging programme, Be Connected.
• To monitor, evaluate and report on Union events to effectively grow and develop them for the future.
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