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► Women Students' Rep
Women Students' Rep
Unpaid Part Time Executive Representative Positions
The Executive is a sub-committee of the Trustee Board, and its main core business is broadly overseeing the day to day activities, management and business of the Students’ Union. Some of the output is routed back through the elected official structures and some is tasked as priority actions for the Union Staff team and is delegated to the Staff Management Team through the General Manager. The Executive sits under the authority of the Trustee Board.
The Union Executive consists of the full time Executive officials (who are the four Sabbatical Officers and the three Campus Representatives) and a broader base of part-time Executive roles who sit to represent the specific needs and opinions of particular constituencies.
Each part-time Executive Representative is expected to self-identify as belonging to the constituency which they are elected to represent, with the exception of Environmental and Ethical Representative.
As well as being members of the Executive all of the part-time representatives are expected to champion the rights and opinions of their constituency in all aspects of the Union, and where appropriate work with other officials and groups and bring items to the attention of the relevant Forum or Assembly.
Women Students’ Representative
The Women Students’ Representative reflects the view that despite legislation the gender roles in society are not equal, and as such women benefit from specific representation in an effort to ensure that their needs and views are included. The Women Students’ Representative therefore ensures that the specific opinions and views of female students are represented at Executive level and within the
The work of the Women Students’ Representative also includes striving to ensure that any barriers to participation specific to women are removed and that the work of the
The full role description for the Women Students’ Representative as it is currently defined in the proposed policy documents is as follow:
The Women’s Student Representative shall:
1. Be a woman.
2. Ensure that women’s views and concerns are reflected within the work of the Students’ Union.
3. Represent the views, opinions and needs of women to the Executive Committee and Trustee Board and any Assembly or other Union meeting where appropriate.
4. Assist the Union Community & Student Life Sabbaticals and Campus Representatives to ensure that the regular Inclusion Groups and Assembly are forums where women students can bring issues.
5. Shall ensure where appropriate there is can be a forum where female students can meet.
6. Where appropriate organise social, educational and training events that may be restricted to females only, in liaison with the relevant Union official staff/committee.
7. Establish and maintain contact with and provide information from, groups and organisations that work on women’s issues.
8. Promote the positive involvement of women in all areas of Students’ Union activities.
9. Provide advice, guidance and support to Union officials/staff/committees on equality, diversity and inclusion issues realting to woem students.
9. Provide advice, guidance and support to Union officials/staff/committees on equality, diversity and inclusion issues relating to women students.
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