Vice President of Representation

DUSA Executive Elections

Find out more about the role and its responsibilities. You can only apply for one position so read them all to find the role you are best suited for.

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Role Details

  • Sabbatical part-time role.
  • Start Date: 1 July 2025
  • End Date: 30 June 2026
  • Annual Salary: 24,000

This role might be for you if you can...

  • Support and enhance student voices to help shape the student experience.
  • Work closely with a range of student representatives and staff.
  • Engage and encourage students to take part in representing the student body.
  • Take a leading role in running a range of important processes which support enhancement and democracy

Summary of the 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
  • Job training, development opportunities and a chance to broaden your professional network.

Your success will be measured by:

  • Voter turnout in Student Elections.
  • Number of candidates who run-in Elections.
  • Your relationships with School Presidents and SRC Councillors.
  • Feedback from students you have supported and/or worked with.
  • The strategic objectives you help achieve for DUSA, through working with our senior management team.