APPLICATION FORM
SUITABILITY DETAILS
Position applied for:Your Suitability
Looking at the person specification listed in the job advert, please use brief examples to provide further evidence of how you meet the selection criteria. You should provide details of relevant skills, abilities, experience and knowledge that you have which will enable you to carry out the job effectively. These may be gained from your life and work experience (paid or unpaid), education, training or hobbies/interests. You will help your application if you highlight which criteria you are addressing each time you give an example. For example, you could write, “Communicates Effectively, and Organisational Skills,” as a heading, and then give the example of how you keep in touch with the members you have in your society. Continue on a separate sheet if necessary.
Essential Criteria
Knowledge: An understanding of the benefits of Freshers' events, Freshers' week and the Students' Union as a whole
Experienced: Previous experience of working a customer service role
Reliable: Demonstrates high levels of availability & punctuality, maintaining communications
Assertive: Experience of controlling pressured situations in a calm and effective manner
Initiative: Ability to be a proactive self-starter, effectively getting on with work
Effectiveness: Ability to manage workload, delivering high quality work on time
Positive: Shows a positive and adaptable attitude towards the Union and work
Supportive: Shows mutual support for the manager and team to benefit students
High Standards: Shows high expectations of themselves and their work
Values led: Champions students and Union values, always trying to do the right thing
Respectful: Friendly with respect for others, helps create a safe and tolerant place to work
Empowering: Empowers others to be fulfilled in their roles by support, learning & development
Progressive: Being fair, valuing equality, diversity, ethics and the environment
Desirable criteria
Previous experience working in a role that supported Freshers’ Week Activities
Previous experience of working in high-pressure environment
Previous experience of supervising staff or volunteers
Employment and voluntary working history
Additional experience, knowledge and qualifications
Please tell us if you have any additional and relevant experience, knowledge, or qualifications which would support your application
Thank you for your interest in employment with the University of Sussex Students Union.
Completed Personal Details form must be returned along Suitability Form by the closing date shown on the job advertisement. We would also be grateful if you could include a completed, optional, Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form. Where possible forms should be e-mailed to the person identified in the advert, however if this is not possible then please post them to HR Office, Room 261 Falmer House, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QF.
We try to contact every applicant within 3 weeks of the closing date, whether or not you have been successful.