ABOUT US

East London Students' Union is a progressive charity that supports around 24,000 students that study at the University of East London. We are based in one of the most diverse boroughs in Europe and our membership proudly reflects the communities where we are based.

Our purpose is to support and empower our students by representing their views and providing a range of supportive services, events and activities to make university life the amazing experience it should be. Our Docklands offices were fully refurbished last year. We're currently refurbishing our common rooms and reception area. Earlier this year in Stratford, we launched an excellent new space with sitting around areas, reception, performance rooms and meetings room.

We're now working to build a students' union that champions their aspirations and can deliver what's needed to make a difference. We're excited about this and have invested in several new posts to give us the expertise needed.

If you are excited by the opportunity to help us do things differently, empower others and build a students' union that can better support our students, then we could have a role for you. If you can operate in environments where change is continual, challenges multi-faceted and where solutions require innovative thinking, you'll thrive here. You'll also need to be self-driven, able to operate with autonomy and be able to balance competing priorities.

Diversity is one of the defining features of life at UEL, with over 180 nationalities represented in our student body. Within Newham, where we are based, over 74% of residents are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. As we grow our staff team, we are passionate about making our teams representative of the students we support and the communities we operate in. We therefore especially welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates and other candidates typically underrepresented in leadership.

THE JOBS

Research and insight manager
Salary: £37,600
Person specification and job description

As our research and insight manager, you will develop the Students’ Union’s insight function. Embedding better use of data will inform more effective decision-making, planning, policy and campaigning. We have rich data, but a hyper-diverse student population adds complexity to analysis and developing insights.

You will have the opportunity to work closely with colleagues across the Students’ Union and our university partner. Making use of the available data will help to build an insight-led culture that will enhance student experiences and outcomes.

Student groups/activities manager
Salary: £37,600
Person specification and job description

As our student groups/activities manager, you will lead the development and enhancement of our student activity groups. Our activity groups enrich university life by supporting community-building and social cohesion throughout the University. You will help us regrow our number of activity groups as well as support the establishment of new student-led activities.

It is important to embed a culture that encourages student leadership and personal development within those groups and activities.

Student groups/activities coordinator
Salary: £31,550
Person specification and job description

You’ll be responsible for supporting the development and delivery of our group activities and events. This includes establishing and working with student-led groups such as societies, communities, media and fundraising. You’ll also deliver training and other development programmes for student leaders in student groups.

You’ll also contribute to projects in key areas such as induction/welcome, student development and event planning.

Student voice manager
Salary: £37,600
Person specification and job description

As student voice manager, you'll be responsible for supporting the student representatives at school and course level and in community groups. You'll work on research projects along with colleagues to ensure our policies and actions are informed by evidence. You'll also support student officers, other student representatives and colleagues to develop policy positions on issues affecting members.

Advice caseworker
Salary: £31,550
Person specification and job description

You’ll provide impartial advice to students on academic matters, and represent and support students in meetings and panels in more complex cases. You’ll use your experience to help us do more preventive work to help our students to take action on their own behalf.

You’ll have excellent attention-to-detail and maintain accurate and comprehensive casework notes.

WHAT WE OFFER

We offer a 35-hour week, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and a few extra days at Christmas (varies year-to-year), employer contributions to our pension scheme, an employee benefit scheme, and season ticket loans. Employees can also access more benefits through the University including an on-site gym and comprehensive training and development opportunities.

HOW TO APPLY

Before you apply, you should read the tips below. Applicants must complete an application form. You may also include a short cover letter/statement (no more than one A4 page) but this is not compulsory. You should email your documents to su.jobs@uel.ac.uk in Microsoft Word or PDF format. We do not accept or read CVs.

The equality and diversity monitoring form is optional and staff reviewing your application are not able to see your responses to the monitoring form. However, completing it helps us to know if we are attracting applications which reflect our communities and our membership.

If you require the application form in a different format, please email us at su.jobs@uel.ac.uk

The deadline to apply is 09:00 on Monday 28 October 2024. Interviews will take place on campus during the week commencing Monday 04 November 2024.

WORKING ON OR OFF CAMPUS

At the moment, our policy is that, during term time (around 28-30 weeks per annum), we expect staff to work on campus four days per week (possibly more depending on the role). This is reduced to a minimum of three days per week outside of term time.