Student Belonging Officer

The Organisation

The Open University Students Association serves the interests of around 170,000 part-time and distance-learning students spread across the UK, continental Europe and beyond. Our role is to represent and support the interests of this vast and diverse community of students. The OU Students Association is an independent registered charity, governed by elected student leaders. Our team of vibrant, friendly and dedicated professional staff provide the vital support needed to deliver our ambitious strategy.

The Job

This is a new role within the Students Association dedicated to building the Student Community through our Clubs and Societies, both of which are key services to support a sense of belonging to our student body. The post-holder will be responsible for nurturing the existing Clubs and Societies (as well as the volunteers within them), supporting students to create new ones but will also be looking at other ways to grow our vast student community. Further information can be found in the Job-Related Information.

The Person

You will be a hard-working self-starter with bundles of energy, resilience and pragmatic skills to advance these services and grow our Student Community. You will have good attention to detail and be proactive in finding ways to support and grow the sense of belonging for our students. You will need to be self-motivated in the times where you will be working solo on projects but also work well as part of a team.  A full person specification can be found in the Job-Related Information.