What roles am I electing?

The Part-Time Officer (PTO's) positions are voluntary roles, with a term of office that starts in mid-June 2020 until June 2021. Any student may run and vote for these positions. All of the PTO's:

• Are voting members on the Student Senate
• Attend meetings with the full-time Executive Officers
• Create and manage projects

Part-Time Officers

All of these positions are part-time, voluntary roles that you can carry out alongside your studies. These roles last for one academic year, starting in June 2020. For most of these groups, you may only run for positions if you are part of the relevant student group (for example, if you are part of that Faculty).

Faculty Officers

Biology, Medicine and Health Faculty Officer: Undergraduate (UG)
Biology, Medicine and Health Faculty Officer: Postgraduate Research (PGR)
Humanities Faculty Officer: Postgraduate Taught (PGT)
Science and Engineering Faculty Officer: Postgraduate Taught (PGT)

Each Faculty has two undergraduate and two postgraduate (PGT and PGR) Officers. They will influence and make key decisions on Faculty committees. They run faculty-specific campaigns and work with a wealth of students reps to effect necessary change. 

Student Community Officers

Student Community Officer - Fallowfield and Withington
Student Community Officer – City Centre

These roles are designed to represent students outside in the wider community. They will campaign on issues such as environment, transport, housing and safety.

Access Officers 

Student Parent Officer
Widening Participation Students Officer
Mature Students Officer
Part-time Student Officer

These positions work specifically on issues of concern to a particular section of the student community, to remove barriers and boundaries to learning these students are more likely to face.

National Union of Students (NUS) Delegate 
National Conference 

Manchester Students’ Union is a member of the National Union of Students (NUS) and each year, we can send delegates to NUS National Conference.We send 11 *delegates to represent Manchester Students. 

* Fair Representation rules mean that all Voting Delegations will have to have at least 50% self-defining women on them (rounded down).