About the Role
This role leads the Union's work to protect student welfare within student-led groups and to widen inclusion in student activity. It sets and upholds standards of conduct across more than 60 student-led clubs, manages how concerns are raised and resolved, and works to remove barriers to participation for students who are inactive or underrepresented.
The post holder will design and deliver training for club committees, covering consent, Active Bystander, and alcohol and drug awareness. Also manage the welfare and incident reporting process, supporting fair and consistent responses. Gather and report data in line with BUCS expectations, working closely with safeguarding, wellbeing and university colleagues. Develop activity and partnerships that widen participation among students from under-represented groups.
About You
You will need significant experience in student welfare, safeguarding, equality and inclusion, or a related field, ideally within sport. Experience of delivering training and handling sensitive cases with sound judgement is essential, alongside strong organisational and relationship management skills and a genuine commitment to student welfare. Experience of working in higher education or a student-led environment is desirable.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced professional to lead culture, welfare and inclusion across QMSU Sport. This is a new post, created in response to growing national focus on student sport culture, including the BUCS Club Culture Summit and the new BUCS Club Culture Framework. You will work across our sports clubs to build safe, positive and inclusive environments where every student feels welcome to take part.
About the Department
Queen Mary Students' Union represents and supports over 30,000 students and 4,500 staff at Queen Mary University of London. Our services and programmes help create an inclusive and vibrant student experience, with sport and physical activity playing a vital role in promoting wellbeing, engagement, and community impact.
About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.
Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.
Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality
£33,928 to £40,815 per annum.