An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the University of Stirling Students’ Union as Student Representation Coordinator to help deliver key academic and democratic activity in line with the charity’s aims and objectives and core responsibility. You will work closely with our elected student leadership and Student Voice Manager to establish relationships with university staff positioning strong student voice across the University. You will help the Union improve meaningful student engagement building effective student voice mechanisms across campus physically and digitally. You will take a lead role in the administrative aspects of our democratic process, from small committees to large student meetings helping to ensure that students are able to influence their learning and environment at all levels.

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:

Student Voice & Representation

• Coordinate an effective Academic Rep programme which supports and empowers students to raise issues and highlight good practice to continually improve the student experience.
• Organise, plan, develop and maintain a database of student academic representatives and identify any gaps in representative coverage.
• Design and deliver digital and in-person training for student representatives.
• Ensure that all academic Divisions and Faculties have access to student representation and that these structures effectively contribute student input.
• Contribute to student organising approaches for greater levels of student voice recognition.
• Organise, coordinate and administer the Union’s democratic process, including; zone and committee meetings, general meetings, and other relevant meetings as forums for student leaders to represent the student voice, ensuring they receive effective support.
• Support analysis of feedback data such as NSS to help plan and support the Union’s targeted approach to effective student representation.
• Provide insight, perspective, positive challenge and context to elected leadership on matters relating to student voice and representation.
• Support the various Union departments in building evidence-based systems to manage student feedback and enable our elected Student Officers to be impactful advocates for our members.
• Have lead responsibility for the delivery of RATE, the students’ union’s annual student-led teaching awards, including administration, logistics and event delivery.
• Ensure that an annual report is produced reflecting on student nominations in the RATE awards.

Democracy

• Contribute to stronger and accessible Union approaches to student democracy and change making.
• Contribute to the continued development of stronger, accessible and inclusive Union approaches to representation, student democracy and change making in line with good practice and with high levels of student engagement
• Champion student democracy, identifying opportunities to improve engagement, contributions and turnout.
• Develop relationships for effective knowledge transfer and good practice with other students’ unions and NUS.
• To monitor, evaluate and report on democratic activity.
• Coordinate voter activity in planning logistics of elections and democratic engagement.
• Organise and lead the Union’s campus presence during election periods, including organising candidate briefing, hustings and voter outreach.

Health Wellbeing & Sustainability

• Promote and evaluate student wellbeing through engagement with student representatives.
• Plan and take forward projects and campaigns that aim to use engagement and campus communities 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 student representatives to with sustainability opportunities.

Finance & Funding

• Work with the Student Voice Manager and Finance Manager to ensure representative and democratic budgets are set and managed appropriately.
• Oversee the effective use of campaign, activity and officer training budgets.
• In collaboration with Union colleagues support student celebration events as and when necessary.

Why apply?

At Stirling Students’ Union every day is different. If you like variety and would like to utilise your skills and experiences to make a difference within a fast-paced environment, then this could be the job for you. With a competitive salary for the non-profit sector, there’s plenty of reasons to consider building a career with us.

If you’re a passionate and driven individual, exciting by the opportunity to create change and make an impact as part of a dynamic organisation then we’d love to hear from you.