{"id":468,"date":"2015-02-06T11:33:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T11:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/?p=468"},"modified":"2015-12-16T11:37:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T11:37:03","slug":"why-you-should-become-the-next-susu-ethical-and-environmental-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/2015\/02\/06\/why-you-should-become-the-next-susu-ethical-and-environmental-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should become the next SUSU Ethical and Environmental Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elections are fast approaching! Southampton University Student\u2019s Union (SUSU) is recruiting for the next Ethical and Environmental (E&E) Officer<\/a> to join the Senior Leadership Team to start in July 2015. We invited Lydia Butler, the current E&E Officer, to shed some light on\u00a0the inner workings of this role and\u00a0show you why you should\u00a0run for this amazing opportunity.<\/p>\n

Guest blog by Lydia Butler, current SUSU Ethical and Environmental Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Life<\/a>If you\u2019re passionate about the environment, ethics and making a positive difference in your uni, this role is for you!<\/p>\n

There are four\u00a0main responsibilities of the E&E Officer:<\/p>\n

1. Encourage SUSU to operate in a socially responsible and environmentally friendly way through an effective environmental and ethical policy to ensure the Union\u2019s activities and services have a minimal impact on the environment and are positively ethical<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As E&E officer, you automatically become a trustee and director of SUSU; attending regular internal meetings including Union Council, Commercial Sub-Committee, Trustee Board and a variety of high-level University meetings on environment and sustainability, carbon management, waste and procurement and biodiversity.<\/p>\n

It has been incredibly interesting to attend these meetings. I can have a say in how all SUSU\u2019s and the University\u2019s impacts are managed and stand up for better practise on behalf of all students!<\/p>\n

As part of this year\u2019s policy focus on waste I’m working with Southampton City Council and the Waste and Recycling Officer within Estates and Facilities to improve recycling information and collection. I’ve also\u00a0ensured that the new American Diner provides a food take-away box and in a few months\u2019 time my\u00a0committee will be holding a waste awareness day.<\/p>\n

I also work towards better ethics. When SUSU\u2019s President announced the formation of an enterprise fund I advised him about integrating ethical requirements for all newly funded student enterprises.<\/p>\n

2. Educate students and staff on relevant issues through campaigns and events to promote behaviour change.<\/em><\/p>\n

Campaigns and events are the well-known and the officer works with the support of the E&E committee, VP Welfare and with Sustainability Action for student-staff partnership events. Committee member Sarah Muskett organised Blackout<\/a> in collaboration with Sustainability Action in November and Waste Wars<\/a> (shameless plug: sign up here<\/a>!), Swap Shop<\/a> and Fairtrade Fortnight are yet to come.<\/p>\n

3. Represent the interests of Union members in ethical and environmental issues and empower and support members to take action to achieve this.<\/em><\/p>\n

The E&E officer also supports other Union groups by advertising events, providing stalls at E&E week for societies. This year E&E has also been supporting Fossil-Free Southampton through technical discussions on how to realistically approach the campaign.<\/p>\n

4. Manage a committee of support coordinators.<\/em><\/p>\n

Finally, as stated before, a major responsibility of being E&E Officer is to manage a support committee who help organise the major education and awareness.<\/p>\n

If this sounds like something you would be interested in nominate yourself<\/a> on the SUSU website before the 12th<\/sup> of February and if E&E officer isn\u2019t for you, or if you want more information, email eande@soton.ac.uk<\/a> to find out how you can get involved in the committee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elections are fast approaching! Southampton University Student\u2019s Union (SUSU) is recruiting for the next Ethical and Environmental (E&E) Officer to join the Senior Leadership Team to start in July 2015. We invited Lydia Butler, the current E&E Officer, to shed some light on\u00a0the inner workings of this role and\u00a0show you why you should\u00a0run for this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[431146],"tags":[493667,122602,491490,496232,496240,460885,496248],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-experience","tag-blackout","tag-employability","tag-guest-blog","tag-make-a-difference","tag-swap-shop","tag-volunteering","tag-waste-wars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}