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► Communications Officer

Six students are elected every year to work as full-time elected officers. Their complete job descriptions can be found in the Students' Union Constitution and you can find out more about the other elected positions in the Students' Union and how we make decisions using the menu to the right.

The Communications Officer 2011/12 is Ariel Cohen

About Ariel

I studied History BA & International Relations MA at Sussex.

I started involving myself with the Union with timid attempts at writing for the Badger in my second year. I then became the Politics editor for the Pulse in my third and then editor in chief last year.

The combination of a political conviction fostered at Sussex with a passion for student media where the deciding factors in my standing for election.

I love the accessibility to interesting and odd cultural goings on in Brighton.

The Communications Officer's role

The Communications Officer is responsible for ensuring the membership are adequately informed about the Union in order to foster student engagement.

I help represent the University of Sussex Students' Union, to stakeholders and media, locally and nationally. I am also responsible for ensuring there is adequate support and facilities for Union media outlets to continue to develop.

Ariel Cohen

communications@ussu.sussex.ac.uk

Phone: 01273 87 3347

Office: Top floor, Falmer House

Facebook: Ariel Cohen Comms-Officer

Twitter: @CommsUSSU

Activities & updates

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Plans for the year

In my manifesto I pledged to increase the accessibility and transparency of the Union through Q&A type sessions and with Union tours, these will be incorporated into wider plans to improve democracy at the Union. I will be working to help implement these plans.

I will also be working with the part time Media Development Officer to improve Student Media and building on work to introduce a students academic journal.

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Manifesto

UNION

Transparency
• Elected officers’ timetables and minutes of their meetings will be made public.

Representation
• Facilitating grass-roots students’ political campaigning.
• Develop the idea of a students’ journal, providing opportunities to publish academic work.

Democracy
• Regular public meetings with elected officers.
• Democratic reform and a platform to give feedback for the Union and Student Media.

STUDENT MEDIA

Skills development
• Free media related workshops and training.

Society and Sport representation
• Through better use of the website and union pages.

Inter-media unity
• Through enhanced communication and clearer definitions in role and relationship.