- Advertised from 5th November 2024
- 50 week per year.
Role
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.
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.
Application notes
Closing date for applications: Monday 25th November 2024 at 5pm
Interviews will be held: Thursday 5th December 2024
For further information, please visit stirlingstudentsunion.com/recruitment where you will find application form, job description/person spec and equality monitoring form.
To apply for the position, please return your completed application form, along with an equality monitoring form to Wendy Forbes, Union Secretary & HR wf2@stir.ac.uk
Work somewhere professional, but different. Build a career with Students’ Unions
Would you like to come and work at the number one Union in Scotland (as voted in the recent Whatuni Student Choice awards)? Strath Union is looking for a talented Activities Coordinator to join our growing team.
Strathclyde Students’ Union is committed to promoting diversity and equality for all and welcomes applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from applicants with disabilities, from ethnic minority backgrounds, and those with diverse sexualities or marginalised gender identities as these groups are underrepresented.
Summary
This role will work as part of a team to focus on maintaining and developing Strath Union’s approximately 200 varied societies. This will include working closely with elected students and colleagues in the team to ensure student societies and activities are diverse, inclusive, and accessible.
The role will support student groups with their events and deliver relevant training and workshops to volunteers. This position will also help to deliver and promote key Student Engagement department events and activities, such as welcome weeks and volunteering awards.
The ideal candidate will utilise their skills and experience to provide effective support to Strath Union’s societies and student activities, using initiative and problem solving to continually develop processes and resources. The successful candidate will enjoy a varied workday in a vibrant workplace with a competitive salary within the sector.
We are seeking two External Trustee to sit on our Trustee Board who has strategic thinking, independent judgement, an ability to think creatively and a willingness to speak your mind. This is a voluntary position for a three-year term and reasonable expenses can be reimbursed.
Vice Chair (External Trustee)
We are looking for an External Trustee who will become the Vice Chair of the Trustee Board with knowledge or experience the following areas:
• Third Sector (Voluntary Sector)
• Governance
• Leadership and Management
You must have a least one year’s experience of being a Trustee on another charity.
The Vice Chair is responsible for supporting the Trustee Board Chair, an elected Full Time Officer who changes every year, in the leadership of the Board. The Vice Chair will deputise for the Chair as required, provide a coaching and mentoring role to the Chair and offer general support to ensure effective Board meetings. The Vice Chair supports the performance management of the Chief Executive. When required, the Vice Chair will have responsibilities in dealing with complaints or conduct issues about the Chief Executive or Full Time Officers. Read the Vice Chair Role Description.
External Trustee
We are also looking for an External Trustee with knowledge and experience in:
• Human Resources Management
We are interested in individuals of any age and welcome applications from people from a range of backgrounds. A full induction programme will be provided. We are happy to support you in developing your knowledge about our Students' Association. All applications will be considered.
Our Students' Association exists to represent and support Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) students to have the best university experience. This is our Mission. We are constantly striving towards our Vision that you will have an outstanding experience that will live with you forever and our Values are being Inclusive, Community, Student-Led and Fun.
We are a charity with charitable purposes and are a separate and independent organisation from GCU. You would be expected to attend at least four meetings a year, an annual training event and some social activities. We encourage our Trustees to attend our meetings in person but you can attend online. Find our more information about the Trustee Board.
We are located on both the Glasgow and London campuses of Glasgow Caledonian University. Find out more about us,how we are run and our strategic plan. You can read our audited accounts that includes our annual achievements and performance.
Please note that current GCU students and employees and Students' Association employees cannot apply to be an External Trustee.
We have achieved the NUS Quality Students' Union, Green Impact Students' Unions and Investing in Volunteers accreditation.
Pathways Coordinator – Blairgowrie High School
- Full time
- £24,600
- On site: Blairgowrie
- Closing 10th January 2025
We are looking for a Pathways Coordinator at Blairgowrie High School, to work with young people, mentors and school staff involved in our programme.
About the role:
You will be an integral part of the school community and wider MCR team and be the key person delivering the MCR programme to young people in the school.
Key responsibilities:
- Helping to build exceptional individual relationships with young people across S1 to S6 and delivering S1 & S2 group work.
- Helping to drive volunteer mentor recruitment. Consistently supporting, actively engaging and motivating mentors from training through the length of their engagement with the programme.
- Actively support MCR young people to set, experience then follow their education and employment pathways.
- Evidence progression, impact and best practice with YP input, quantitative feedback and qualitative case studies.
About you:
- Exceptional ability to build meaningful relationships with young people aged 11-18 years, education colleagues, volunteer mentors and local employers.
- Awareness and understanding of the principles of safeguarding and child protection.
- Ability and confidence to present programme information & deliver prepared training sessions to groups.
- Ability to work well on own initiative, as part of a team and on a flexible basis in response to young person and organisational need.
- An understanding of the challenges and barriers that care-experienced and/or vulnerable young people may encounter.
- Experience or a knowledge of processes to document and evidence good practice and positive outcomes.
You may have experience as a Youth, Community or Advice Worker. You will be an empathetic person who is open minded, non-judgemental, resilient and who is driven to improve outcomes for care experienced and other vulnerable young people.
About MCR Pathways:
MCR Pathways is an award-winning charity established in Glasgow in 2007. Our mentoring programme is now delivered in schools across the whole of Scotland. Our passionate team is dedicated to helping the most vulnerable young people gain in self-confidence, identify their skills and recognise and fulfil their potential. Our vision is for all young people to experience equality of education outcomes, career opportunities and life chances. Our in-school mentoring has profound impacts on school pupils in their confidence, wellbeing, achievement and post-school progression. MCR Mentors are volunteers who make and experience a life-changing difference. You will be joining a friendly and supportive team who love what they do and enjoy working with each other. We model our values and many of us are also mentors ourselves.
Benefits of working for MCR Pathways include: 33 days annual leave in first year rising to 38 days from 2nd year of employment, additional day off for your birthday, Living Pensions Employer, Life Assurance - 4 x salary.
Trustee
- Management Board
- Unpaid
- Hybrid: Aberdeen, with remote work flexibility
- Closing 15th January 2025
Are you passionate about empowering students and shaping their university experience? AUSA is seeking two External Trustees to provide strategic guidance, ensure strong governance, and oversee financial decisions for our £1M charity, supporting 15,000 students. This voluntary role offers the chance to gain board-level experience in a student-led charity focused on inclusivity and student success.
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