Mind Your Mood
Mind Your Mood is the student-led mental health campaign. It is ran by students, for students, to help raise awareness of mental health issues that affect students at Queen's, and in wider society. It seeks to remove the stigma attached to discussing mental health, encourage students to practice self-care, build resilience, and connect with internal and external support services.
Through a student-led committee, events, workshops, fundraisers, and social opportunities, Mind Your Mood is a powerful vehicle for change and discussion at Queen's.
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Mind Your Mood - We're Hiring!
Mind Your Mood are pleased to launch applications for four paid positions, exclusively for students at Queen's!
You can apply at the bottom of this page.
About the roles
Queen’s University Student Disability & Wellbeing Services requires up to four students to carry out a number of roles in relation to the Queen’s Mind Your Mood student-led Mental Health Awareness Campaign.
Mind your Mood was established in 2013 delivering educational programmes to students across the University. Since then, it has continued to raise its profile on mental health awareness with the student population at Queen’s.
The successful applicants will work with key stakeholders including the Project Board, Student Disability & Wellbeing Services, the Students’ Union, and external organisations such as Aware NI to co-ordinate, design and brand the next phase of the programme.
The students will also be involved in redeveloping the structure and content of the programme based on ongoing research conducted alongside the campaign.
Finally, in addition to previous rounds of recruitment for a Mind Your Mood Lead Co-ordinator, this year, we are excited to recruit an additional three posts of Mind Your Mood Faculty Wellbeing Ambassadors. Together, these four successful applicants will work on the implementation and delivery of the Mind Your Mood campaign on a whole-university approach.
Therefore, the four roles available are:
- Mind Your Mood - Lead Co-ordinator
- Mind Your Mood - Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (AHSS) Ambassador
- Mind Your Mood - Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (EPS) Ambassador
- Mind Your Mood - Faculty of Medicine, Health & Life Sciences (MHLS) Ambassador
If you are not sure what Faculty your School/course is a part of, you can view the full list here: https://www.qub.ac.uk/about/Leadership-and-structure/Faculties-and-Schools/
These posts is available from November 2021 to 30 June 2022. The hours of each roles are set out below.
Please Note:
These roles will be largely office-based, and therefore successful applicants should expect to be on-campus for the full duration of the posts.
Closing Date
Applications for these posts will close at 11:59PM on Sunday 28 November 2021. Applications submitted after this time will not be considered.
Anticipated Interview Date
Friday 3 & Monday 6 December (you may wish to hold time in your schedule on this date if invited to interview)
Queries about the Roles?
Informal queries on the role can be directed to mindyourmood@qub.ac.uk
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Major Duties
Main duties associated with these posts are:
Developing and delivering the 'Mind Your Mood' student mental health campaign, to include:
- Organising and delivering a range of engaging events and workshops, targeted towards a student audience;
- To co-ordinate the planning and logistics of events, whether delivered internally or through an external facilitators;
- Managing and motivating a team of volunteers (e.g. the Student Committee, and other students who express interest in joining the campaign)
- Developing publicity and raising student awareness of the campaign and mental health in general, in particular development of social media and online communications and resources, working with Students’ Union and Schools and ensuring promotional presence at relevant events;
- Maintaining relationships with current partners and developing new contacts to support the campaign;
- Development and operation of campaign governance structures, such as the Project Board, comprised of student representatives, University staff and external members;
- Contributing to the management and monitoring of budgets;
- Seeking funding sources and contributing to development of funding applications;
- Further developing ways for project monitoring, evaluation and reporting;
- Carry out any other duties which are appropriate to the post as may be reasonably requested by the supervisor
- Essential Criteria
- Registered students at Queen’s University Belfast for academic year 2021 - 2022 and for the full period that these posts are available, otherwise the application will not be considered.
(Please note, eligibility restrictions apply to PhD/MPhil applicants based on date of first registration as an undifferentiated research student, as per the University's code of practice and University Regulations associated with PGR students, in the first instance).
- An awareness of, and a keen interest in Mental Health issues
- At least three to six months experience of organising events including booking venues, communicating with attendees, preparing materials, and identifying and resolving issues as they arise;
- At least three to six months demonstrable experience of taking initiative and solving problems in a working / volunteering environment with minimal supervision;
- At least three to six months experience of posting engaging content across the main social media platforms and growing audiences;
- Experience with and proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office applications and in the use of the internet as a tool for finding information;
- Willingness to complete the training required to undertake the role;
- Willingness and ability to work flexible hours - must be available for at minimum 8 hours a week between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday during term time.
- Desirable Criteria
- At least three to six months previous experience of working on Mental Health campaigns (in a paid or volunteer capacity).
- At least three to six months experience of developing policies and procedures for an organisation or project that are carried out and followed by other people within the organisation / project;
- At least three to six months previous experience of supporting students or pupils, in paid or voluntary capacity in a role that involved giving one-to-one advice;
- At least three to six months experience of writing content for publication (e.g. FAQs, Blogs, Website, leaflets), and social media;
- Evidence of creating innovative campaigns;
- Hours and Pay
The pay for these roles will be £8.91 per hour.
- The Lead Co-ordinator will be contracted to work for between 12-15 hours per week.
- Each of the Faculty Ambassadors will be contracted to work for between 8-10 hours per week.
- How to apply?
Interested applicants can apply using the link to the application form below.
Applications for these posts will close at 11:59PM on Sunday 28 November 2021. Applications submitted after this time will not be considered.
Please note: we strongly recommend that you complete your application beforehand in a word processing software such as Microsoft Word. This is so that you can perfect your application, as once it is submitted, you will be unable to amend your application thereafter.
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Take time to submit your application, and clearly outline how you meet the essential criteria. This is what we will use to shortlist your application.