{"id":2156,"date":"2014-10-02T10:24:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T10:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:14:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:14:57","slug":"sspssr-placement-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2014\/10\/02\/sspssr-placement-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"SSPSSR Placement Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of\u00a0the University&#8217;s 50th anniversary celebrations, a\u00a0placement\u00a0has been specially created\u00a0for an SSPSSR student.\u00a0The successful student will help with the &#8220;50 Years of Feminism Project&#8221; during the 2014\/15 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the anniversary year, this project will celebrate, showcase and disseminate the achievements of feminist academics at Kent in improving women&#8217;s rights and well-being through their research, scholarship, pedagogy and activism over the last four decades.<\/p>\n<p>This is your chance to take part in one of the many projects taking part in our University&#8217;s anniversary year, see more details and the application process below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Austerity Conference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>help out with the registration and planning the conference organisation,\u00a0the booking\/managing tickets and accommodation for participants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Films:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>help out with organisation\/promotion of the festival to the larger public, help with leads, provide links to modules, help out with booking\/managing tickets and accommodation for speakers if needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Radical Women Symposium:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>help out with registration on the day of the symposium, and with the\u00a0booking\/managing of tickets, accommodation for participants, promoting the event to the\u00a0larger public a nd to help out with administrative tasks related to the conference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Website:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>help gather information needed for the website (from each of the sub-projects),\u00a0help set up and promote the webpage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Student Awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>help with administrative tasks and the promotion of the awards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please apply for this placement if you have good management skills, enjoy working with others and engaging in activities such as event management planning. You should have good organisational skills and be able to work independently as well as part of a team.<\/p>\n<p>This is a competitive placement. To apply for this work experience position please send a CV and Covering letter to SSPSSRemployability@kent.ac.uk by <strong>midday on\u00a0Thursday 9 October 2014<\/strong>. Please explain why you think you would be most suitable for this placement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please note this is an unpaid placement but a bursary can be applied for via the Careers and Employability Service B-Kew scheme: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/employability\/working\/students\/bursary-and-expenses.html\">http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/employability\/working\/students\/bursary-and-expenses.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Volunteering hours can also be logged via the employability and volunteering toolkit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentunion.co.uk\/login\/?redirect=\/eandv\/toolkit\/profile\/\">http:\/\/www.kentunion.co.uk\/login\/?redirect=\/eandv\/toolkit\/profile\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get rewarded via the Employability Points Scheme: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/\">http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of\u00a0the University&#8217;s 50th anniversary celebrations, a\u00a0placement\u00a0has been specially created\u00a0for an SSPSSR student.\u00a0The successful student will help with the &#8220;50 Years of Feminism Project&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2014\/10\/02\/sspssr-placement-opportunity\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6910,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[872],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}