DUSA Executive elections – Vice President of Representation role

About the role

The Vice President of Representation (VPR) takes the lead role in ensuring that the student’s voice is heard through democratic means and processes. If elected, you will ensure representations structures allow all students to have their feedback listened to and acted upon. You will work alongside your fellow DUSA Exec, School Presidents, SRC Councillors and key University staff members.

Your job is to hear the feedback of these student representatives and help them turn their ideas into solutions. These solutions can range from meeting with University management, implementing new motions and policy change, or creating campaigns and referendums.

Your work will touch a variety of different areas in the student experience and you can create real change by helping to develop DUSA policy and seeing it come to life.

For the Vice President of Representation’s full job description read Bye-Law 1 in the Nomination Pack.

Benefits

• 28 days of annual leave
• Flexible working hours
  • Sometimes you will have commitments which are outside of regular working hours. These hours worked can be taken in leave at other times
• Full-time job training
• Gain valuable work experience and training opportunities in a number of areas

Working with the University of Dundee

As a member of the DUSA Executive, a big part of your role will be to work closely with the university across a range of committees but also to take responsibility for representing DUSA and students within each of the academic Schools.

This will require you to work closely with the School President as well as senior School management. Executive members have a seat at the School Board and you may be asked to take part in important quality assurance and enhancement processes, such as Periodic Programme Reviews (PPR).

Training will be provided for this work but please be aware that this is a big and important part of each sabbatical role.

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