Thank you for your interest in the post of Wellbeing and Campaigns Manager at Northumbria Students’ Union.
This role offers the successful candidate an amazing opportunity to be part of an innovative, award-winning charity which seeks to have the highest standards of service required to be one of the country’s leading Students’ Unions.
The education and wellbeing of students at Northumbria is our charitable purpose and core goal. The two are tightly linked. Students who are in poor health are less likely to do well at University and the demands of education success can cause poor health.
We work closely with the University, to complement and inform its work in these areas.
We support students’ physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing throughout our time at Northumbria by delivering services and providing opportunities that help inform and build resilience amongst students.
This includes
- Mental Health First Aid.
- Active Bystander Training.
- Supporting societies that promote student wellbeing and ensuring all societies are supportive and inclusive in line with our values.
- Working with the University to ensure student safety on campus.
- Running campaigns, awareness raising and education on issues that impact student wellbeing, mental health awareness, sexual health and relationships etc. As well as running these campaigns we encourage and support students to run these campaigns.
- Working with other teams in the Union ensure student representation and voice shapes the way the University thinks about and delivers services.
We are looking for an individual who shares our passion for improving the wellbeing of Northumbria students, and thus having a positive impact on their student experience and journey.
The Student Experience & Wellbeing team works across the Union and University to ensure it provides students with a range of rewarding and in demand services.
Northumbria Students’ Union seeks to be an outstanding employer, committed to a great experience for staff as much as students. We have consistently retained Investors in People Silver and last year 92% of our staff would recommend working here. We are committed to being inclusive and seeking to empower staff in line with our competency framework.
We are seeking a dynamic leader to develop and drive wellbeing initiatives, campaigns, and cost-of-living support that enhance the student experience across all three campuses. In line with the University and Northumbria Students' Union (NSU) belonging strategy, you will head a robust programme covering mental, emotional, physical, and sexual health, harm reduction, and violence and harassment awareness. Additionally, you will spearhead initiatives to improve student financial literacy and stability, ensuring comprehensive support that empowers our student community to thrive.
This role will report directly to the Head of Student Experience & Wellbeing, working closely together to ensure a range of seamless and high-quality services are delivered and provided to students. This role will manage the Welcome Coordinator, and Welcome Team student staff. The role will also oversee teams of volunteers, working on different wellbeing projects.
Each year the Union elects a Welfare Sabbatical Officer, a paid year-round role, and volunteer positions at Faculty level. This role will work closely with these positions to ensure NSU work is student led and student focused.
The post also offers guaranteed and generous holidays at Christmas and Easter as well as management development opportunities and training.
About you, the successful candidate
You will have experience working in the higher education sector, ideally with experience of running campaigns, leading, driving and delivering wellbeing services or a similar field, with a good understanding of issues affecting student wellbeing. You’ll bring enthusiasm to a role which works across the student body and be passionate about the benefits improving wellbeing brings to all students throughout all areas of their student journey.
You will have experience of delivering a range of engaging training on sensitive issues. These could range from mental health to sexual harassment to sex education and ideally having worked with young people previously.
You will either be qualified to deliver Mental Health First Aid training or evidence your ability to achieve that qualification. If the successful candidate is not qualified the Union will support you to achieve the qualification.
While this role leads on delivery of wellbeing services, other Union services also relate to student wellbeing. For example, our advice service provides academic and housing advice and our student activities team who support over 100 societies including a range who focus on student wellbeing. And of course societies have a directly beneficial impact on student wellbeing through the friendship and community they build. We also work closely with the University who provide a range of wellbeing and support service.
You will therefore be able to work closely with colleagues from different areas to help deliver our wellbeing agenda and draw on their experiences with students to inform our lobbying work with the University.
We are inclusive in our work, and you will be working with a diverse group of students, from faith, culture, nationality, academic and interest.
We particularly encourage applications from individuals whose personal life experience, background and skills will help them engage with these different communities to develop their societies and encourage students to come forward to set up new societies.
You will be able to manage a small team of both staff and volunteers, working to support and develop their skills and use resource appropriately.
About Northumbria Students’ Union
Northumbria Students’ Union is independent from the University and a registered charity whose aims are the education and welfare of students at Northumbria. The Union and University work closely together to deliver a first-rate service to students.
When a student joins Northumbria University, they automatically become a member of the Union. There are currently over 30,000 members.
The successful candidate will join the Union’s team of experienced and enthusiastic staff who deliver the range of our services to and for students. The post reports to the Head of Student Experience and Wellbeing. The Union employs approximately 120 staff at the busiest time of the year and employs a core of 43 people on a year-round basis.
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