College Life Coordinator

Role Description

Department

Student and Academic Services (S&AS) provide a range of services to assist students with many aspects of their university life.  Colleges sit within the Student Life and Well-being team of S&AS and are in a unique position to provide students with direct support and opportunities to develop their skills and interests, or signpost college members to other services.

Colleges are central to the York experience, helping students to achieve a broad education not just a degree. They play an important role in providing a distinctive and cohesive experience for students and staff and in enriching the academic life of the institution. Whilst many college members are undergraduates, there are also taught and research postgraduate members.  As well as the resident community, the colleges have large non-resident populations.  

As College Life Coordinator, you would be joining a College team committed to providing the best possible service to our members, and one that reflects the sociable and supportive ethos of the college community.

Role

College Life Coordinators provide important wellbeing interventions for our students and deliver key student experience projects in their local college. They provide support directly for student members through 1:1 and group interventions, and work as Independent Facilitators on Level One Support to Study cases. They also work in their college to provide a sense of community and belonging through college level events and activities. This is a role where you will have the opportunity to develop your project management and delivery skills, working with senior colleagues in Colleges across both University campuses to deliver University wide student experience projects such as Welcome and Orientation, College Sports and our peer support functions (College Life Advisors, Mentors and Student Connect.

Skills, Experience & Qualification needed

• Knowledge of the common pressures facing University students and effective techniques for addressing them
• Awareness of the drivers of community development within the Higher Education sector
• Experience of providing support to those in distress
• Experience of organising events

Interview date: TBC

For informal enquiries: please contact Martin Crosby on martin.crosby@york.ac.uk

Condition of employment

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. Consequently, all applicants will be asked to declare both unspent and spent convictions on their application form.

Appointment of the successful candidate will be conditional on a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

The University strives to be diverse and inclusive  – a place where we can ALL be ourselves.

We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the University. 

We offer family friendly, flexible working arrangements, with forums and inclusive facilities to support our staff. #EqualityatYork