Job Title: Community Organiser 

Reporting to: Campaigns and Liberation Development Coordinator

Place of Work: The University of York Student Union / Hybrid

Contract: Fixed Term - 6th October 2025 until 5th June 2026

Hours of Work: 5 hours per week during semester

Salary: £12.60 per hour

Closing Date: Monday 22nd September 2025 at 5pm

Interview dates: 30th September 25 & 1st October 2025

About the Role:

We are looking to build a team of community organisers who represent the diversity of our student community at York. The principles of community organising are to bring people together in order to address shared concerns and work to improve the experiences of the community. 

Community Organisers will shape their priorities as a team and decide the direction of their work, which may include: creating and attending events with various liberation networks; gathering insight on the experience of historically marginalised students; meeting with and support students to organise around issues important to student communities; feeding into policy decisions of the Union in order to provide student voice; contributing to student-led campaigns as required; and having the opportunity to organise awareness activities to acknowledge diverse events, such as Black History Month or Disability History Month.

Community Organisers will be addressing issues of social inequality and widening participation, so we particularly welcome applicants who identify as one or more of the following: Disabled (including neurodivergent, mental health conditions); Estranged or care experienced (including refugee or asylum seekers); First in family; International; LGBTQIA+; Local and/or commuting; Marginalised gender (including but not limited to woman, nonbinary, trans, gender nonconforming and/or intersex); Mature (beginning undergraduate course after the age of 21 or a postgraduate course after age of 25); Parent, guardian or carer; Student of colour; Working class; Postgraduate; Part-time student; Non-traditional student (i.e. on foundation year, distance learning)

Working at York SU:

At York SU we know that maintaining a great work life balance also improves our team's wellbeing, productivity and happiness, this is why we offer a range of contract sizes to fit around your studies and home life.

During your contract you will be able to update your availability at the start of their contract, and then over each holiday period (Christmas and Easter) to make sure work still fits around your lectures and studies.

Other benefits include:

• Staff Discounts within venues
• Free soft drinks on shift
• Access to enhanced student discounts (varies term to term)
• Free entry to official club nights in town with a student ID (excludes Wednesday's)
• Discounted or Free tickets to York SU organised events (e.g. Viking Raid and Summer Ball).

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.

York SU 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.

**It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high number of applications, seasonal and high-peak times, we may have to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

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

If you have any further questions about the position, or if you have a requirement for adjustments that would make the application or interview process more accessible, please do not hesitate to contact us on [email protected].

Please note that products containing nuts, dairy, gluten and other potential allergies are served within our venues. We however aim to support a nut free environment within our student centre by encouraging staff not to bring nut based products to work.