Career Staff: Student Communities Coordinator

The Role

Joining a team of eight (including four other Student Communities Coordinators), you will support student leaders and volunteers to build a sense of community and belonging for a wide and diverse range of students.

The working environment is collaborative and dynamic, responding to the needs of our membership, and this role would suit someone with skill in handling challenging conversations and sensitive, often contradictory, viewpoints.

We are particularly interested in speaking to candidates with lived or professional experience of working and building relationships with groups facing particular challenges/barriers to engagement.

Key duties in this role include:

• Understand and Empower Academic Representatives.
• Build relationships in the Academic Rep system from Academic reps to University staff.
• Support Student Community Organisers with training and delivery of high-quality projects
• Support with student groups & communities with planning, development and data insights
• Work closely with all stakeholders (both internal and third party) to maintain and build relationships
• The full list of duties can be found in the job description below

Application process

Please review our Job Description 

You can submit your application by clicking apply, completing our application form outlining and relevant skills, experience and why you are interested in the role. Following the closing date stated on our job adverts, applications will be shortlisted against the criteria outlined in the person specification and job description.

We will contact you by email to let you know whether or not you have been shortlisted to participate in the next stage of the selection process.

If you have any questions about the role, application process or working for Students' Union then please don't hesitate to get touch su-people@sheffield.ac.uk

Location: The University of Sheffield Students' Union

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Contract Type: Permanent

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Salary: £26,009 (B1)

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Specific Hours: 35hrs per week

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Closing Date: Monday 6th July 2026 (11:59pm)

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Interviews/Assessments:
Thursday 16th July 2026

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Start Date: Monday 17th August 2026

Details
£26,009.00 per hour
Location: Sheffield, S10 2TG, GB