Campaigns Assistant
ABOUT THE ROLE
Are you passionate about campaigning, activism and supporting student-led change? Join the Sussex Students' Union as our Campaigns Assistant and be part of a dynamic team helping to deliver meaningful and impactful campaigns across campus.
You'll work closely with student campaigners, elected officers, and our Engagement team to provide vital administrative and operational support. From minute-taking and meeting coordination to assisting with events and digital content, this role offers hands-on experience in a fast-paced, student-led environment where your input makes a real difference.
Your day to day activities will include, but not limited to:
- Assisting the elected officers in the delivery of relevant annual projects, campaigns, activities and events, including operational support for officer-led projects such as the Free Periods scheme.
- Providing administrative support for campaign meetings, including arranging meetings and taking minutes.
- Upkeeping of structures, systems, processes and procedures that provide information, resources and support to student-led campaign groups.
- Undertaking other administrative tasks associated with campaign volunteers and student-led campaign groups as directed by the Student Engagement Manager.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job title: Campaigns Assistant
Responsible to: Student Engagement Manager
Responsible for: Sustainability Administrator
Salary: £24,931 per annum, pro-rata
Hours of work: 36.5 hours per week.
Contract: Fixed term until 30th January 2026
Location: Falmer House, University of Sussex, BN1 9QF. However, we are supportive of hybrid working with this role expected to work a minimum of 75% of their hours from the office.
Please note that this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Please note that student applications will NOT be considered for full time positions, as it exceeds the recommended hours of work for individuals in higher education. This applies to both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
For more details please see the full Job Description and Person Specification.
If you have any questions ahead of submitting your application, please feel free to email Hatty Williams (hatty.w@sussexstudent.com) for an informal chat.
KEY DATES
Applications close: 23rd June 2025, 11pm UK time
Interviews: Week commencing 30th June 2025
Expected start date: As soon as possible
COMMITMENT TO INCLUSION
We are committed to maintaining a diverse workforce because we know how important it is to have decision makers and collaborators with varied lived experiences and backgrounds that reflect the range of needs from our diverse student community.
We welcome applications from everyone, and we want to strongly encourage applications from; people with an ethnic minority or Chinese background, people with a disability, people with dependants, and people who identify as LGBTQ+. We conduct anonymous shortlisting and all of our interview panels have Unconscious Bias Training in order to support the above. We also consider flexible working for those with care commitments. If you have any suggestions as to how we could improve our language or application process please let us know.
ABOUT US
We are looking for skilled, friendly and highly motivated people who share our vision and values.
With our vibrant environment and organisational culture, the Students Union is a dynamic workplace only a few places could match. Led by students we are all about working with students to help them get the most out of their time here at the University of Sussex or Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
Whilst being located on Sussex Campus - close to Brighton & Hove - we are separate from the University, something that is crucial to our campaigning and lobbying work.
According to last year's Staff Engagement Survey, the best things about working here is the supportive environment with great people who you can trust and respect as well as the ability to work flexibly for most roles.
Although we have different departments we think of ourselves as one big team and are often working all together on projects or helping each other out at big events such as Freshers week or Elections.
Whilst we cannot really brag about offering the most competitive pay, as is often the case in the third sector, we feel we have a lot of other things going for us, which more than make up for our less competitive salaries.
Working on Sussex Campus and for the SU has lots of perks: Our staff get access to enhanced time off, which normally amounts to an extra 6 days leave in addition to 20 days of annual leave per year, and bank holidays. We also organise regular staff socials and events throughout the year and pride ourselves on having numerous learning and development opportunities for all our roles and creating a supportive workplace with regular 1 to 1s, an employee assistance programme and professional health services. You can read up more about our benefits below or on our benefits package.
If this sounds like the workplace you’d like to join, we would love to receive your application and get to know you!
STAFF AND APPLICANTS WITH LONG TERM CONDITIONS
The Students’ Union aims to implement reasonable adjustments for all staff and applicants with disabilities, creating a culture of cooperation, shared responsibility and proactiveness to ensure equitable access to jobs. We want to make sure everyone is supported in our selection processes, and are equipped to work safely and get as much as possible out of their role as possible.
For more information about the support we have available follow this link
GETTING PAID
Everyone working in the UK needs a National Insurance number in order to get paid. If you are a UK citizen you will automatically have this, however if you are not a UK Citizen you might want to apply for an NI number at the same time as you apply for a job so there is no delay in your payments. You can do so using this link: https://www.gov.uk/apply-natio....
Please note you cannot apply for a National Insurance Number until you're in the UK, but this should not stop you from completing your application for this role.
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS
Due to legal regulations we have to ensure that everyone is eligible to work in the UK and this would be done by us checking and making a copy of the correct original identification/documentation before your first day of work. However, we do not ask for your eligibility to work during the application or interview stage. You may also be limited in the number of hours you would be allowed to work.
Find out more information about applying to work in the UK. In any case, we would encourage anyone to apply for a job in one of our friendly departments to give yourself the chance of being selected, and we would look to see the appropriate original documents before your first day of work.
MORE INFORMATION
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