Job description 

Job Purpose:

Greenwich Students' Union is offering an team member role to support and develop community engagement at Avery Hill Campus. One of the central themes of the programme is to encourage participation for residents and users establishing a sense of belonging and creating platforms for students to make friends, learn a new skill or keep active at UoG. The emphasis is on offering lots of opportunities to be involved in and providing activity to everyone.

Duties and Key Responsibilities

Key Targets 

• Engage at least 50 unique students with 200 engagement points in the academic year
• Curate programme of 10-12 small/medium reoccurring events on campus during each term
• Collaborate with peers to deliver 1 larger scale events
• Work with different projects to deliver cross departmental activities such as Give It A Go, GSUmove and other GSU initiatives.
• Support our Sports programme through admin

Duties & Responsibilities -

• Be an ambassador for the project, positively promoting it and the range of opportunities available to students on campus.
• Work with the Campus Engagement Manager to effectively market activities.
• Recruit and retain participants to the activities.
• Help develop, promote and run activities and events to ensure high levels of participation.
• This will involve attending sessions, coordinating set-up and delivering safe activity.
• When required, assisting coaches or facilitators with other project delivery.
• Be receptive to new opportunities and ideas for increasing participation.
• Collect project data including participant numbers, details, feedback, comments, photographs, and reporting findings.
• Provide regular updates to the Campus Engagement Manager.
• Undertake such other tasks as may be necessary to achieve the objectives.
• To carry out administrative duties for GSU and other departments at GSU discretion.
• Assist with key events in the Engagement and opportunities calendar; Varsity and Awards.
• Assist with Welcome week providing engaging activity and welcoming students to Avery Hill.

Personal Specification

E = Essential D = Desirable

Attributes:

Specific Knowledge & Experience:

• Understanding of university life - E
• Organisation of events - D
• Experience of coordinating activity and events on campus - D
• Experience of engaging people/customers/students - E
• Experience with student sport - E

Skills & Abilities:

• Effective oral and written communication skills and presentation skills - E
• Excellent administrative and organisation skills - E
• Good level and range of IT skills - E
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to deal effectively with a wide range of people, but especially students - E
• Self-motivated and able to work independently - E

Other requirements:

• Have an interest in developing community engagement on campus - E
• Able to meet deadlines - E
• Committed to principle of equal opportunities - E
• Enthusiastic energetic and approachable - E
• Ability to be flexible over the number and timings of the hours worked - E

Contract Casual - Student Staff

Hours Zero hours per week.

Salary £12.71ph + Paid holiday on top of your hourly rate of 12.07% per hour

Notice period One Week

Benefits Training opportunity. Personal development opportunities. Building verbal communication skills. Gaining essential knowledge and experience to further your career options. Working as part of a team.