Student Trustee

The Union's governance as a student-led organisation and a registered charity is exciting, challenging and critically important to our work. Overseen by our Trustee Board, the Union has been on a real journey in recent years. Following a period of consultation with our student members, the Union will launch a new brand identity over the summer, reflecting its expanded remit as the single students' union representing all students at the University of York from August 2024. The coming years will see a more purposeful approach to engaging with all students, from both postgraduate and undergraduate academic pathways and from all walks of life. Our aim is to be a Union for all students, providing engagement and representation activities and support services that encourage all students to make the most of their time at York. As we look to new ways of studying, supporting students and working, York SU has an exciting opportunity to recruit three lay and two new student trustees to bring new
knowledge, insight and ideas to the Board in a key period.

Serving as a Trustee will offer you a great opportunity to make a positive difference to the lives of students while gaining experience of strategic decision-making in a board-setting that will give you the opportunity to make a real difference to students' lives.

Whilst attracting a diverse pool of candidates is a significant priority for the Board, this recruitment exercise is particularly interested in recruiting trustees with the following skills: Finance and audit, Commercial operations or Democracy and governance.

We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be natural, and be the best versions of themselves. Whatever your background, religion, identity, relationship status if you're good at what you do and want to provide the best experience possible for, with and by our students then jump in with your whole self.

The University of York Students Union is committed to equality of opportunity - we are an organisation who works very hard to ensure we appoint based on merit. We would particularly welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and/or from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are proud to offer an interview to applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised position.

If you are invited to interview with us we will share our interview questions in advance so you can prepare your responses. We're more interested in hearing about your experiences and ideas than in testing your memory, and so we want you to feel as prepared as possible.