Monday 09-09-2019 - 12:03

 

Lead Us is an opportunity for current students to decide who will fill vacant leadership positions within the Students’ Union.

At the beginning of every academic year, each student at UWTSD can self-nominate for a chance to become a Student Trustee, Part-Time Officer or SU Council Chairperson. Our students will select their representatives from the list of nominees.

To be eligible to stand for any of these roles, you must be a registered student at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (or an elected TSDSU sabbatical officer in their first year of office) on Wednesday 16th October 2019.

 

 

Key Dates

Nominations will open on Wednesday 9th October and close on Wednesday 16th October 2019.

The sign-up process is officially called Self-Nomination and will last a few weeks, so all students have the chance to learn about what the role means, how it can develop you and how you should write a manifesto.

Voting will open at 10am on Friday 25th October, and close at 3pm on Monday 28th October 2019. 

 

 

More about the positions:

 

• NUS Wales Conference Delegate (5 Positions Available)

Represent the views of students from TSDSU at the NUS Wales conference.

 

• NUS Annual Conference Delegate (2 Positions Available)

Represent the views of students from TSDSU at national conference.

 

 

Part-Time Officers (Voluntary, Part-Time Positions):

 

Part-Time Officers are current students who are passionate about their role and have ideas that will hopefully improve the life of the students they represent. More casually know as PTO’s, these students will run campaigns, collect feedback and represent the student body in a wide variety of ways. Each PTO has a different remit, looking after an area of interest or a special group of students.

Carmarthen, Lampeter and Swansea each have their own Campus Council, where each of the campus-based officers report to and from. It’s here at Campus Council that all Ideas and Polices are sent, debated and either passed or rejected. Each Part-Time Officer attends Campus Council and speaks on behalf of the groups of students they represent through their role. Every student at UWTSD can attend Council, but only those elected get a vote.

Part-time officers have a crucial role to play in terms of helping the Sabbatical Officers effectively represent the interests of students, as well as holding them to account and scrutinising their work.

You must study at the campus in question to run for one of these roles.

You should run for a part-time officer position if you are passionate about one of the roles and have lots of ideas about how you can get students involved, campaign for change, or make students’ lives better.

 

 

Carmarthen Campus

• LGBT+ Officer (Open Space)

This role exists to extend and defend the rights of LGBT+ students, promote LGBT+ issues and support LGBT+ students. To stand for this role, candidates must self-define within the LGBT+ umbrella.

 

• Mature Students Officer

This role exists to represent Mature Students, seeking to enhance the student experience for mature students and promote their issues and ideas. To stand for this role, candidates must be over 25 years old.

 

• Trans Students' Officer

This role exists to extend and defend the rights of Trans students, promote Trans issues and support Trans students. To stand for this role, candidates must self-define as Trans.

 

 

Lampeter Campus

• LGBT+ Officer (Women's Space)

This role exists to extend and defend the rights of LGBT+ students, promote LGBT+ issues and support LGBT+ students. To stand for this role, candidates must self-define as a woman.

 

• International Students' Space

This role exists to represent International Students, seeking to enhance the international student experience and promote their issues and ideas. To stand for this role, candidates must be a non-EU student. 

 

 

Swansea Campuses 

• Welsh Language Officer

This role exists to extend and defend the rights of Welsh-speaking students, promote the increased use of the Welsh language,  and raise issues and provide support to Welsh-speaking students. To stand for this role, candidates must be a fluent Welsh speaker.

 

• International Students' Officer

This role exists to represent International Students, seeking to enhance the international student experience and promote their issues and ideas. To stand for this role, candidates must be a non-EU student. 

 

• Student Parent/Carers' Officer 

This role exists to represent Student Parents & Carers, seeking to enhance the student experience and build an active Student Parents & Carers network. 

 

Nominate Your Mate

 

Don’t worry if you don’t feel like you’re ready for one of these roles. You can still have your say by putting someone forward who you think will do an excellent job. If you know somebody that you think would be great at the role, you can Nominate them in our Nominate Your Mate form, which is completely anonymous. It’s takes less than a minute to complete, and once it’s done, we can contact them to let them know that someone thinks they would do a great job, and encourage them to put their name forward.

 

Nominate Your Mate here.