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ABOUT US

East London Students' Union is a progressive charity that supports around 25,000 students who 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. We are now working to build a students' union that champions their aspirations and can deliver what is needed to make a difference. After re-focusing our objectives and changes to our staff team, we're excited to recruit 17 new staff. These will be advertised in batches over the coming weeks.

We have been working with the Uinversity to refurbish our spaces and to develope new spaces. Our Docklands offices, meeting rooms and reception area were fully refurbished. In Stratford, we opened our new sitting-around areas, reception, performance rooms and meetings room. In the last 18 months, we have opened two new high-quality cafés which employ exclusively student staff. At the end of September, we will open our brand new café-bar venue. We have also taken on the management of other key spaces in or near the main square in our Docklands campus, so we can be more visible and provide more fun and friend-making activities for students in the heart of campus.

Our five student officers have big plans to continue to improve things in the University, on campus and in the Students' Union, with a strong focus on rights, skills and employablity.

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. A big part of our work is about helping our student staff, student representatives and volunteers to develop; all our career staff are required to support this.

Diversity is one of the defining features of life at UEL, with over 180 nationalities represented in our student body. We are based in Newham, where more than 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

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Salary: £xxx
Person specification and job description

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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. Our campuses are well connected with public transport and are easily accessible.

As we are a customer-facing organisation, staff typically work four days on campus. Frontline staff (e.g. cafés, reception) have different arrangements.

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 for the executive support manager role is 08:00 on XXX.