SUSTAINABILITY REPRESENTATIVE
As a sustainability representative, you do your best to raise awareness among the student population about contemporary environmental issues and to reduce the ecological footprint. You work closely with the KU Leuven Green Office and Leuven Climate Neutral, and you come up with initiatives and run campaigns to bring sustainability to the attention of Leuven students.
WHAT KIND OF PROFILE ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
A sustainability representative is primarily environmentally conscious, socially aware, and somewhat familiar with the prevailing environmental issues. Moreover, you are willing to support circles in environmentally conscious actions or help make their events ecologically responsible (e.g., reducing paper use).
TIME COMMITMENT
You stay informed about and actively participate in developments at the KU Leuven Green Office and Leuven Climate Neutral. You receive and read reports and documents related to sustainability meetings and actively participate in these meetings. You represent the opinions of the students and occasionally inform the General Assembly (GA) about the status of sustainability developments. You come up with new initiatives around sustainability for and by students.
MEETINGS
As a representative at LOKO, you are also expected to attend a number of meetings. The number of meetings may seem quite extensive. In practice, they are usually well spread out and it all works out fine. If you can't make it once, it's not a disaster. We are all volunteers among ourselves.
- GENERAL OFFICE (AB)
You sit as a representative in the General Office. Here, all volunteers from LOKO - DaBu and representatives, possibly also project staff - come together and discuss the progress made in the past period. Additionally, you prepare files and notes for the AB that will then be presented to the AV. The AB takes place biweekly during the academic weeks and is usually followed by a small team-building activity: the après-AB.
- GENERAL MEETING (AV) & WORK MEETING (WV) STUDENT POLICY
Alternating with the AB, the General Meeting & Work Meeting Student Policy – AV & WV Student Policy - takes place biweekly on Friday evenings. In the AV, administrative matters concerning the internal organization of LOKO are discussed, while in the WV Student Policy we address representation issues. All student representatives from the student circles come together to take positions and make decisions on matters that concern their students. As a sustainability representative, you are needed to propose a specific agenda item or to mentally support your LOKO colleagues. After the AV/WV, we head to a fakbar to get to know each other better!
- MANDATE MEETINGS
Depending on your role, you are also part of those meetings for which you are specifically elected. You sit in the working group Green Office and Leuven Climate Neutral. You consult regularly with the Sustainability department of KU Leuven. Based on your files and actions, you organize ad hoc meetings.
WHAT IS EXPECTED OF YOU?
You commit yourself as a motivated and socially engaged volunteer with loyalty to LOKO. You always put the representation of students first and support your LOKO colleagues where possible. You engage yourself to make students more environmentally conscious and organize actions or campaigns for that.
WHAT DO YOU GET IN RETURN?
Being a member of LOKO means being part of a super cool team full of motivated students. You can achieve effective improvements for the Leuven students and learn useful skills for later in your life.
PLACES: 2
TEAMMATES
You work together with your coordinator, in this case the president or vice president of LOKO, your fellow representative for Sustainability, and possibly other representatives when their field of work aligns with yours, such as Alma, Acco, Student Services...
ARE YOU INTERESTED?
You will be put in contact with a current sustainability representative: they will explain to you what the mandate entails and inform you about recent files. Are you convinced? Yay! Then you can submit your application by email to loko@loko.be, consisting of your CV and a motivation letter. You will then receive the questions you need to prepare for your election. After that, you will go through the election procedure at the General Assembly. Don't worry! It may all sound a bit scary, but you are never alone: the current and upcoming LOKO team will gladly guide you and is always ready to help you.