The Role of a PASS Student Coordinator

The Role of a PASS Student Coordinator

As a Student Coordinator you are responsible for promoting the scheme within your discipline and you will become a regular point of contact for the Staff Coordinator(s), Leaders and Peer Support Interns.

Our Expectations of you

You will be responsible for helping your Leaders and ensuring that they have the best possible experience. You will run debriefs which will be attended by all your Leaders, the Staff Coordinators, and the Peer Support Intern.Debriefs are important because:

• You can ensure that the registers are completed
• You can find out how the Leaders are doing, if they have any problems, and how you could overcome these as a team.
• Inform leaders of any news, and receive updatesfrom the Interns.
• You can feedback the first year experiences to the Academic Coordinator.
• Leaders can network with other leaders.
• They are a place to organise socials.

As a Student Coordinator you will support your Leaders and develop your scheme, this is paired with the freedom to becreative and develop the scheme. Some of the most successful Student Coordinators have been those who have put effort into developing new and interesting ways to enhance the experience of students on their course.

Student Coordinators MUST:

• Recruit Leaders (with help from the Academic Coordinator and Peer Support Intern).
• Attend all Coordinator Workshops.
• Work with staff coordinators to assign Leader groups.
• Support Leaders by running debriefs.
• Ensure there is an online group (E.g. Facebook, Whatsapp) where Leaders can readily share information with each other.
• Ensure PASS registers are completed by Leaders and are easily accessible to the Peer Support Intern (For example, using online google.docs).
• Work with Leaders to organise events and activitiesfor the scheme.
• Produce handover information for the next Student Coordinator at the end of the academic year.
• (If applicable) Create Pre Arrival Guides for next academic years new students.

Support and Opportunities for you

Peer Support Interns are there to ensure the maintenanceand development of the scheme and that your personal goals and plans for the scheme are achieved. It is important that you keep in touch with them so they can help you with this.

Student Coordinators are all required to undergo Student Coordinator Training at the start of the year. There will also be Coordinator Workshops throughout the yearwhere all Coordination team (Academic, Admin, and Student Coordinators) will be invited to attend or deliver a workshop around key themes which your scheme may need help in. All PASS Coordination teams across the University will also be present so will be a great place to share good practice.

We also provide paid, volunteering and training opportunities (some of which will only be advertised to Coordinators) and chances to represent the University at different events.

Most importantly the role of Student Coordinator is acommitment with responsibilities but students report it to be a fun role.