AUBSU Officer Elections Guide 2018

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Let’s talk about the future...

If you could change one thing about AUB what would it be?

How about in your local community?

Perhaps you have a grand idea about how to change the world!

What do you want the future to look like?

No matter who you are, where you come from, or what you study here at AUB, you probably have an idea that loads of people on campus would support.

AUBSU is here to help you make those ideas happen, so that you can create the future that you want to see.

Sound good? Read on to find out how you can get involved...

CONTENTS What is the Students’ Union?

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Becoming an Officer

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President & Vice President

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Part-Time Officers

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Nominate yourself!

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Rules & Top Tips

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Voting

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Important Dates

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FAQs

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WHAT IS THE STUDENTS’ UNION? The Students’ Union exists to make brilliant stuff happen for students here at AUB. Whether that’s through organising freshers’ events and socials, to campaigning to improve your academic experience, AUBSU is here to make your time at university incredible.

WHAT IS THE STUDENTS’ UNION

All three and a half thousand students at AUB (that’s you!) are members of the SU. That’s a powerful force!

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HOW DOES CHANGE ACTUALLY HAPPEN? Day to day, AUBSU is led by two elected Sabbatical Officers (full-time, paid positions) who work alongside a team of elected Executive Officers (part-time, volunteer positions) and full time staff.

The Officer Team doesn’t just appear by magic! There are no names picked from a hat, and no job interview. Every year, you have the chance to choose who ends up leading your Students’ Union, through AUBSU’s Officer Elections.

That’s what this little book is all about!

What has AUBSU achieved this year?

Microwaves in the canteen Yep, that was us! The Officers worked super hard to get you two of these bad boys installed.

Open Lectures Ever wanted to know how to run your own festival? Or how to start an art publication? Or just want to learn more about world famous artists? AUBSU’s free Open Lectures have covered these topics and more.

And so much more...

- Almost 40 clubs, societies and “give it a go” sports for you to get stuck into; - Over 100 Course Reps across all subjects making sure your course is working for you; - Freshers, end of year party, Open Mic nights, tonnes of awesome events!

WHAT IS THE STUDENTS’ UNION

Extended Library Opening Times The SU persuaded AUB to extend the opening time of the Library to 9pm on Friday evenings, meaning you get to really make the most of campus resources. Yay!

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BECOMING AN OFFICER So now you know that AUBSU is led by a team of Officers, who get elected by you, the students.

But who exactly are the Officers? What do they do?

Led by the President and Vice President, the Executive Officer Team is made up of up to 20 elected students, all with different jobs to do.

How do you become an Officer?

Every March, AUBSU runs elections to choose who leads the SU for the next year. People who want to become Officers run a campaign telling students why they would be best for the role, and students get to vote.

There are loads of different, exciting roles to look at, we can guarantee there will be one just for you!

BECOMING AN OFFICER

Take a look over the next few pages to read more about all the positions that are up for election.

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AUBSU PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT

The President and Vice President (aka the Sabbatical Officers), work as a team to lead AUBSU. Below are some of the duties they share, and on the next page you can see some of the different jobs they have.

Leading

The President is the top dog at AUBSU, working closely with the Vice President to make change happen for students at AUB. The Vice President focuses on matters of welfare (keeping you happy and healthy) and the academic experience (your course).

Campaigning

Want something to change on campus or to raise awareness about a cause? The Sabbatical Officers work with students and each other to launch projects and campaigns that can make a difference.

Representing

Events

From Open Lectures to Freshers, the Sabbatical Officers work hard to ensure there is a huge variety of events for you to come along to.

PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT

The Sabbatical Officers are the voice of students at AUB. They work closely with AUB staff at all levels to make change happen for students. They also work closely with other SUs and have even represented students to the UK Government!

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STUDENTS UNION PRESIDENT Full Time, Paid Position

Planning Making sure AUBSU can grow and get even better at what it does for future students is really important, which is why the President leads planning for the long-term future of the SU. Representing The President sits on AUB’s Board of Governers as the student representative, making sure the student voice is heard at the highest level.

VICE PRESIDENT OF EDUCATION AND WELFARE PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT

Full Time, Paid Position

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Course Reps

The Vice President leads a HUGE army of Course Reps. Course Reps are elected students who work to make sure the academic side of things at AUB keeps getting better, as well as reporting more general issues from the students on their course.

Representing

The Vice President sits on a number of important AUB committees that deal with equality, the environment and your academic experience, making sure the student voice is heard.

PART-TIME OFFICERS The Part-Time Officers form the Executive Committee, a team that works closely with the Sabbatical Officers and each other to make change happen at AUB. These are part-time,voluntary roles that you complete alongside your studies. You are fully supported by AUBSU staff, the Sabbatical Officers and, of course, each other!

ROLES UP FOR ELECTION: Communications Officer Community Officer Events Officer Gender Equalities Officer Green Officer International Officer LGBT+ Officer Mature and Postgraduate Officer

Race Equalities Officer RAG Officer Societies Officer Sports Officer Students with Disabilities Officer Volunteering Officer

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COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER (2 positions available) BUMF: Media

The Communications Officers are in charge of AUBSU’s incredible BUMF: Media platform, which includes a printed publication, a website and a student-led gallery.

BUMF: Team

The Communications Officers recruit and lead a wonderful team of fellow creatives: writers, photographers, gallery coordinators, and many more!

COMMUNITY OFFICER (1 position available)

PART-TIME OFFICERS

Building Communities

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This Officer role is about bringing us all together, both as a community of students, and as part of the local community in Bournemouth.

Teamwork

The Community Officer will end up making a lot of friends!

Whether that’s organising opportunities to help the local community with the Volunteering Officer, or keeping the Sabbatical Officers and Student Services in the loop about local issues, there’s loads of opportunities to work with a huge range of cool people.

EVENTS OFFICER (1 position available) Creativity This Officer role is all about making exciting and interesting stuff happen for students at AUB: from club nights to pop-up events on campus, the Events Officer can think outside the box to make AUBSU’s events bigger and better.

Planning

The Events Officer can work alongside SU staff to get stuck in to organising some of the huge annual events held by AUBSU, like Freshers and Grad Ball.

GENDER EQUALITIES OFFICER (1 position available) Students of any gender identity can stand for this role

Representing

Campaigning

This Officer also gets to be creative, coming up with projects and campaigns to promote gender equality on campus (and beyond!).

PART-TIME OFFICERS

The Gender Equalities Officer exists to make sure people of all gender identities and expressions feel safe and welcome on campus. This includes getting to sit on AUB’s Equalities Committee.

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GREEN OFFICER (1 position available) Leading

The Green Officer gets to lead the amazing SU Green Team, made up of volunteer students who want to save the planet.

Campaigning

There are all sorts of green campaigns to get stuck into: Veganuary, Go Green Week and AUBSU’s famous tree planting scheme, to name a few. We’re sure you can think of even more!

Representing

The Green Officers sits on a few important AUB committees that look at making AUB as environmentally friendly as possible!

INTERNATIONAL OFFICER (1 position available) Must be an International Student to stand for this role

Representing

PART-TIME OFFICERS

The International Officer represents AUB’s ever growing population of international students, making sure their voices are heard.

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Campaigning & Planning Working closely with AUB’s International Office and the AUBSU International Society, this officer can run campaigns and plan events that benefit International students, help them settle into UK university life and to make sure people of all nationalities and cultures feel happy and safe on campus.

LGBT+ OFFICER (2 positions available) Must self-define as LGBT+ to stand for this role

Representing

The LGBT+ Officers exist to make sure that members of AUB’s LGBT+ community feel safe and welcome here at AUB, and both get to represent LGBT+ students on AUB’s Equalities Committee.

Campaigning & Planning

These Officers can run campaigns to make change happen for LGBT+ students, from LGBT History month to sexual health awareness campaigns, there’s lots to do!

The LGBT+ Officers also work with the LGBT+ Societies at AUB & BU to organise the always amazing Student Pride.

MATURE + POSTGRADUATE OFFICER (1 position available)

Must be a Postgraduate Student or over the age of 23 to stand for this role

This Officer exists to make sure that, no matter your age, you feel part of AUB’s brilliant student community. This Officer gets to sit on AUB’s Equalities Committee, making sure mature and postgrad voices are heard by the university.

Campaigning & Planning

From awareness campaigns to coffee mornings, this Officer can work with SU staff to put on great events for their peers.

PART-TIME OFFICERS

Representing

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RACE EQUALITIES OFFICER (1 position available)

Must self-define as belonging to an ethnic minority to stand for this role

Representing

This Officer works to ensure that students of all backgrounds, cultures, and nationalities are represented and treated equally during their time at AUB. This includes getting to sit on AUB’s Equalities Committee!

Campaigning & Planning

This Officer can get creative, putting on events and running campaigns to change things for the better at AUB.

RAISING AND GIVING (RAG) OFFICER (1 position available)

PART-TIME OFFICERS

Planning & Organising

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RAG stands for Raising and Giving, and that is exactly what the RAG Officer helps students at AUB to do, through organising events, volunteering activities, and fundraisers.

Creativity

To raise money and get students interested in volunteering, the RAG Officer gets to come up with all sorts of whacky ideas: whether its a sponsored sky dive, a hitchike race across the country or a fancy dress night out, there’s all sorts of things you can do!

SOCIETIES OFFICER (1 position available) Promotion The Societies Officer works with committee members to promote what their groups do, getting even more people involved with all of our brilliant student run societies at AUBSU.

Planning

This Officer can also get stuck into planning for Freshers, socials, and any other weird and wonderful events. They can also help make all the processes and training for committee members more simple and fun!

SPORTS OFFICER (1 position available)

Planning

As well as helping to coordinate AUBSU’s Give It A Go scheme, this Officer can also get stuck into planning for Freshers, socials, and working closely with the Societies Officer, make life easier for sports club committee members.

PART-TIME OFFICERS

Promotion The Sports Officer helps to get as many students as possible involved in sport at AUB, wether they’re playing for fun with friends, or competing at national competitions.

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STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES OFFICER (1 position available) Must self-define as having a disability to stand for this role

Representing This Officer can attend AUB’s Equalities Committee to represent students with disabilties to the University, making sure that campus and all courses are accessible for people with all kinds of disabilties (both physical and mental).

Campaigning & Planning

The Students with Disabilities Officer can run events, campaigns and raise awareness of issues that students with disabilities face.

PART-TIME OFFICERS

VOLUNTEERING OFFICER (1 position available)

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Teamwork The Volunteering Officer works closely with the Green, RAG and Community Officer to develop and promote volunteering opportunities for students at AUB to get involved with.

Planning & Organising

This Officer will be in charge of seeking out cool opportunities for students to donate a bit of their time and enrich their experience at AUB. This would include working with SU staff to get all the behind the scenes work done.

NOMINATE YOURSELF! Think you’ve found your calling?

Brilliant! Just follow these easy steps to get yourself nominated: 1) Head on over to AUBSU.co.uk 2) Log in with your student ID 3) Head to the nominations page 4) Fill in the form and hit send.

Boom! You’re all finished There are a few things you’re gonna need to make sure your nomination goes through: - Your student number (to confirm you are an AUB student)

- Some words about why you’d be good for the role and what you want to change, aka your “manifesto”. This is 500 words for Sabbatical Candidates, 200 for Part-Time Officer Candidates.

NOMINATE YOURSELF!

- Two proposers (also AUB students)

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RULES & TOP TIPS Though we hate to spoil the fun, there are a few rules that everyone campaigning must follow. We have these rules in place to make sure that the Election is fair for everyone.

We’ll fill you in on all of these (and give you some top campaigning tips) when you come along to the Candidate Briefing. For now, here are a few Dos and Don’ts:

Do: - Use your campaign budget for promoting your candidacy (£30 for Sabbatical Officer candidates, £10 for Part-Time Officer candidates); - Get together a team of friends to help you with your campaign; - Get creative! Whether that’s through the ideas you want to put forward, or how you promote your campaign, don’t be afraid to think outside the box - Talk to as many students as possible!

Don’t:

RULES & TOP-TIPS

- Break the law or any of AUB’s policies;

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- Campaign in learning spaces, e.g. the library, studios, lecture theatres; - Flypost (put posters up on walls around uni); - Start campaigning until the official campaigning week - Get endorsements from AUB staff or Officers.

VOTING Even if you’re not planning to run in the AUBSU Elections, you can still help shape the future of your university by casting your vote.

We work hard to ensure that the right people hear your voice, and your ideas have helped to make AUB what it is today. Don’t lose your voice!

You can vote via the AUBSU website. Just login and head over to the voting page, where you can view all candidates’ manifestos and vote for your faves.

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IMPORTANT DATES 5th FEBRUARY - 26th FEBRUARY Nominations (aubsu.co.uk) 2nd MARCH Candidate Briefing 12:30pm 5th MARCH - 9th MARCH Campaigning & Voting

IMPORTANT DATES

5th MARCH Speeches - 12pm Arts Bar Voting opens - 2pm

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9th MARCH Voting closes 2pm Results - 4pm Arts Bar

FAQ Who can run for Sabbatical / Executive Committee positions?

Any current AUB student can run for any of the available positions, the only exception being roles for which a student must self-define as part of a certain group, or meet other specified criteria.

Where can I find out more about the roles?

Come to the Students’ Union and we can answer your questions!

If elected,do I need to do anything before I start?

If you’re elected into any of the positions you won’t start your role until July. Before that time, we will ask you to attend a training session to help you get the most out of your role. If you are elected, you will be given all the details!

What are the time commitments?

The two Sabbatical positions are full-time (paid), 37 hours a week.

Occasionally the SU will ask for your support at events or to attend meetings. We always expect your studies to come first!

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The Executive Committee positions are part-time and highly flexible to fit around your studies. On average most Exec Officers give no more than 5 hours a week to their position, however we won’t complain if you decide you want to do more!

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CONTACTS Beth Rubery Students’ Union President brubery@aub.ac.uk Ezra Evans Students’ Union Vice President Education and Welfare eevans@aub.ac.uk Bethan Dovey Democracy Coordinator bdovey@aub.ac.uk