What does the role do?

The Communities & Equality Officer, with the other Full-Time Officers, leads the Guild and represents students studying at the University’s Exeter campuses. You will shape the work of the Guild as well as work with senior leaders at the University to improve the student experience. The Communities & Equality Officer leads on ensuring students from different communities, liberation groups, and underrepresented groups are celebrated, supported and represented during their studies. As well as leading on the removal of systematic and structural barriers impacting students within the Guild, University and beyond.

What are the key responsibilities?

The responsibilities and duties of the Communities & Equality Officer includes: 

• Act as the officer lead on communities, belonging, inclusion and diversity, ensuring that students impacted by systematic and structural barriers are supported and represented at a University, local, and national level.
• Organise and help to ensure that the Guild leads challenging campaigns on belonging and diversity, working to remove barriers to participation for students during their studies, locally and nationally
• To empower and support communities and inclusion by championing student-led groups and initiatives to recognise, celebrate, represent and empower students from diverse backgrounds.
• To work in partnership with the University on belonging, diversity, and inclusion-related issues and events, ensuring student views are represented.
• To work closely with the Guild’s Community Representation team to support student-led campaigns, events, and initiatives to promote belonging, inclusion, and diversity (i.e., liberation history months) 
• Fulfil the role of a trustee, overseeing the Guild’s governance, finance, and strategy and other duties as a trustee, alongside the other members of the Trustee Board.

What does it mean to be a trustee?

The Students’ Guild is a registered charity governed by a Trustee Board, which is made up of student trustees, external trustees who bring different expertise (legal, financial, etc) and the elected Full-Time Officers such as this role. The Trustees are ultimately responsible, individually and collectively, for all activity within the Guild. The Students’ Guild Trustee Board is responsible for setting the vision of the organisation, ensuring it is financially sustainable and well run, and delivering the charitable outcomes set out in our Articles of Association.

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