Vice President Welfare Job Role

Vice President Welfare

Vice President Welfare is responsible for campaigning on issues that affects student welfare and wellbeing including housing, mental health and financial hardship. They will represent student interests within the University and local community and ensure the Union supports welfare groups.

This role will:

1. Be the main representative on the welfare and wellbeing of students within the University and local community.
2. Campaigning on issues including, but not limited to: housing and accommodation, mental health provision, poverty and widening access.
3. Chair Welfare Committee.
4. Liaise with part-time, international, mature students and representative groups such as the Mature Students Association.
5. Ensure the Union caters for Nightline and other welfare groups.
6. Ensure part-time, international, mature students have the skills and knowledge to campaign and make their issues heard.
7. Direct students to necessary support.

Board of Trustees

This position is also a member of the Board of Trustees, which holds overall financial, legal and strategic responsibilities for the Association. For more info on being a Trustee, read OSCR’s (the Office of the Scottish Charities Regulator) guide.

Key Relationships

• Strath Union: Full-Time Exec Officers, Non-Exec Officers, Staff including Senior Management, Advice Hub, Central Services, Commercial, Communications and Marketing, Sports Union and Student Engagement teams
• University: The Principal, the Vice-Principal, the Associate Principal & Executive Dean of each Faculty, the Associate Principals, the Chief Commercial Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the University Secretary, the Director of Strategy and Policy, and the Director of HR.
• External Organisations: National Union of Students’ (NUS), Public Officials, Full Time Officers at other institutions.

Key Meetings

These are not an exhaustive lists.

Role Specific Training

• Extensive training and support will be provided to ensure that you are fully equipped for the role.
• Full Time Officers are required to attend the handover and induction period which takes place in June.
• Newly elected Full-Time Officers should check with Student Union staff before making any summer holiday plans as a lot of training is scheduled over the summer period.
• Additional training and ongoing support are provided throughout the academic year.

Being an Executive Officer gives you important skills that are useful in all areas of life. It helped me to grow and become more confident, and gave me the opportunity to fight for the causes I am passionate about.

Simran Kaur, VP Diversity 2016/17

First of all it is a good thing to do, helping others is good for you too, it is a great experience, adds new and different skill sets and is challenging and rewarding in equal measures.

Andy Kerr, Chief Operating Officer, The Piper Group