Nominate yourself

Your SU is run by students for students. We have a team of 13 Officers, 4 Full Time and 9 Part time, who help shape the services we provide and what we work with the university to improve. Each year we give students the power to decide who they want to represent them through elections that take place in during January and February. Students can vote for all Full Time Officer Positions and the Part Time Officer role which relates to their College/Campus.

Your SU asks students who are interested in our roles to nominate themselves to become candidates and run in our elections. In further steps we’ll explain exactly how you can do this.

We suggest all students who would like to become candidates read our General Union Election Regulations. If you have further questions, you can always email elections.su@coventry.ac.uk.

Eligibility Information

Full-time Officer Eligibility

To run in the election, individuals must hold current student status until at least the date results are announced (13 February 2026). To run for a full-time position, students must either be in their final year of study and have completed their degree by August 2026 at the latest, or be prepared to take a year out of study.

Part-time Officer Eligibility

To run for a part-time position, students must be studying and have current student status until at least 1 January 2027.

Visa Information for full-time officers

If you are studying on a Coventry University sponsored Student Visa, this can continue to be sponsored by the University for up to two years whilst you undertake a full-time Officer role. This does not require a different visa application for the position; the terms of your Student Visa will allow you to work as a full-time Officer until its expiry.

If you are elected to a full-time Officer position, you will need to notify the University’s Visa team at your earliest opportunity at reg.isc@coventry.ac.uk to make them aware, as they will need to inform UKVI of the change in your circumstances. If your Student Visa does not already cover the full length of the role (until 31 May 2027), you will need to apply to extend your Student Visa in order to take up the position.

If you do need to extend your visa, you will need to liaise with the University’s visa team at reg.isc@coventry.ac.uk to go through the normal sponsorship process, and make a visa application for the full-time Officer role accordingly. If you are returning to your studies after you have completed your term as an Officer, you may then need to make another visa application at that time. Please also note that the full-time Officer position will not count towards your time limits for studying in the UK.

Before standing for a full-time Officer position, you should check whether you are able to make your application for visa renewal whilst within the UK, or whether you will need to allow time to leave the UK and apply from your home country.

The endorsement on your eVisa will be the same as other Student Visas, meaning that it will not state that you are now a full-time Officer and it will still state that you are restricted to working a maximum of 20 hours per week in term time. However, please be reassured that you can work full time as a full-time Officer with this endorsement.

Please be aware that if your visa expires before the elections due to having finished your programme of study, you will not be able to make an application to extend your Student Visa to remain in the UK for the elections, and would likely mean that you have to leave the UK during the election period. Please ensure that your Student Visa will cover the election period before standing for a full-time Officer position.

Roles

We have a total of 13 roles available, with a range of full-time and part-time positions on offer. You will find job descriptions, eligibility criteria and a job outline for all roles on this page.

Elected roles at Your Students' Union:

Full-time officers

Full-time officers are paid a minimum of £25,448 a year, and work approximately 37.5 hours per week in their role. This is a full-time role so you cannot carry on your studies during your time in office (though you may be able to pause and restart them once you have finished yout term as an officer). Full-time officers represent all students studying across the Coventry University Group, and focus on different elements of student life at the SU such as societies and community groups, sport, welfare and education. The exact remits of each Officer can be found in the role descriptions linked below.

To be eligible for a full-time Officer position, you must still have current student status at the end of the election period (13 February 2025). You must also have right to work status for the duration of the role term (between 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2027).

Roles available:

• Education Officer focusing on academic representation, student issues affecting learning experience, and wider student voice initiatives - Education Officer role description
• Welfare Officer focusing on issues affecting students in their non-university lives, representing student mental health, wellbeing and welfare matters to the university, and developing initiatives to support student welfare - Welfare Officer role description
• Activities Officer focusing on societies, communities, volunteering and campaigns for social change - Activities Officer role description
• Sports Officer focusing on competitive sport, social sport opportunities, and micro sport opportunities - Sports Officer role description

Part-time officers

You will be paid at a rate of £12.64 per hour plus £1.53 holiday pay. If you are a London-based PTO, you will be paid at a rate of £12.64 per hour plus £1.71 holiday pay (inclusive of the London Weighting Allowance). Part-time officers hold their office alongside their studies and tend to represent a specific community of students (e.g. a College or Campus) or a specific area of the student experience.

To be eligible for a part-time Officer position, you must be able to fulfil a minimum of at least 6 months in post. The date of office starts on 1 June 2026, which means that you must have current student status until at least 1 January 2027, in order to be eligible. You must also be a student from the specific college or campus relevant to the role.

Roles available:

• Arts and Society College Officer - Arts and Society College Officer role description
• Business and Law College Officer - Business and Law College Officer role description
• Engineering, Environment and Sciences College Officer - Engineering, Environment and Sciences College Officer role description
• Health and Care School Officer - Health and Care School Officer role description
• CU Coventry Campus Officer - CU Coventry Campus Officer role description
• CU Scarborough Campus Officer - CU Scarborough Campus Officer role description
• CU London Campus Officer - CU London Campus Officer role description
• Coventry University London Campus Officer - Coventry University London Campus Officer role description
• Postgraduate Research Officer - Postgraduate Research Officer role description

Once you have decided on a role, you will need to tell people why they should vote for you. To do this you are required to write a manifesto with five distinct ideas that relate to the role you are running for. This explains what you will do if you are voted in. This short guide will help you create your manifesto (Coming Soon). You will also need to take a suitable head and shoulders photograph so people can see who they are voting for. If you would like us to take your photo for you, you can attend one of our candidate photo days.

When submitting your nomination, you’ll also be able to submit a 30 second video answering the question of ‘why students should vote for you’. This will be displayed Your SU’s Instagram to help promote candidates. This is optional and not required for you to be a candidate in the election.

If you need help, we have a number of workshops to help answer any of your questions and explain some of these things in detail. You can also contact the elections team at any time, by emailing elections.su@coventry.ac.uk

All students who wish to be candidates must complete their nomination by 23:59 on 26 January 2026. This includes submitting your manifesto and photo which were mentioned in step 4. This is also the deadline for submitting the video.

If you are running for a Part Time Officer role, it is the student’s responsibility to ensure that you have submitted the nomination under the correct College/Campus.

Students who try to submit after their nomination after the deadline or do not complete their nomination through the widget will be unable to run as candidates in the election.

Video on how to submit a nomination coming soon.