Student Activities Assistant Manager
Salary: £32,080 - £36,636 per annum
Contract: Permanent and Full-Time
Location: Coventry
Coventry University Students’ Union is a charity dedicated to improving the experience of students at the Coventry University Group, operating across 7 campuses in Coventry, London, and Scarborough.
We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Manager in our Activities Team. You would be leading a small team of Activities Coordinators to work with and develop our student leaders to deliver high-quality, safe, and inclusive student-led activity through our student communities, societies, events, and campaigns. Supporting and deputising for the Activities Manager, you would be working to increase engagement from our students and enhance the university experience for students on our Coventry Campuses. This role would be ideally suited to someone with experience working with students or service users and already in a supervisory or management role, or an experienced Coordinator looking to gain line management experience.
Coventry University Students’ Union’s values are to be helpful, inclusive and ethical and these are reflected in our progressive and people focused rewards and benefits. We offer generous annual leave, an agile working scheme and place a high level of importance on staff support, development, inclusivity, and wellbeing.
Key duties will include:
- Leading in the management of our Coventry-based societies, activities programmes, communities and network building, and campaign based activity.
- Supervising and directing the Activities Coordinators to develop, grow, and promote our Societies and Communities in Coventry with an emphasis on equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Holding responsibility for, and leading the team in, the effective and responsive management of student activity enquiries.
- Supporting with the delivery of training to student leaders to develop their capabilities in leadership, governance, event delivery, and campaigning.
Working hours and Location
This post is permanent working full-time 37.5 hours per week; a flexible approach to working hours is required.
As an organisation we have an agile working programme which allows for some opportunity for working from home. For this role the successful candidate will be required to work on campus in our Coventry office a minimum of 4 days a week during term time, with additional flexibility to meet business need.
Salary Details
The salary is £32,080 - £36,636 per annum.
It is usual to start at the bottom of the grade and will increase incrementally on an annual basis, however for a candidate with highly relevant previous experience an offer may be made within the grade range.
Application Process
You will be asked to complete an application form listing your previous work experience and qualifications as well as some application questions for you demonstrate how you meet our shortlisting criteria.
We encourage you to read the job description and person specification (accessible in the top-right of this page), which contains the shortlisting criteria for this role. The applications that most closely match our shortlisting criteria will be invited for interview.
When you are ready to apply, please click "Apply for Role" at the bottom of this page. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application or interview process, please contact hr.su@coventry.ac.uk. If you have any questions or would like an informal conversation before applying, please contact hr.su@coventry.ac.uk.
Applications close on: Monday 13th July 2026 at 9:00am.
Interviews are expected to take place in the week commencing 27th July 2026, however if you are selected for interview you will receive further information closer to the time.
We anticipate that the successful candidate would commence in post approximately in August 2026.
Please note that the job title of this role internally will be Activities Assistant Manager.
Focus on Diversity and Inclusion
We are an equal opportunities employer and actively committed to promoting equality and diversity, and expect all staff, students, and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are especially keen to encourage expressions of interest from people currently under-represented within the organisation, these include but are not limited to those from the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, and those from a Global Majority background.
We are a disability confident employer and candidates with a disability will be guaranteed an interview, providing they meet in full all of the essential requirements of the post.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application or interview process please contact hr.su@coventry.ac.uk.
Staff Benefits:
Our benefits offered to staff include:
- Occupational Pension Scheme, employer contributions matched up to 6%
- Generous annual leave; this role attracts 31 days holiday plus bank holidays (2 additional days after 2 years’ service and a further 3 additional days after 5 years’ service) per annum
- Free 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme offering confidential advice and support
- Mental Health First Aiders, colleagues who have received training to support others
- Life Insurance 3 x salary
- Discounted Gym membership (in Coventry)
- Eye care and Flu vouchers
- Staff reward and recognition schemes
- Agile working scheme
- Volunteer days, up to 2 paid per year
Find out more about Your Students' Union here: https://yoursu.org/