Updating Your Officer Profile

Are you wondering what you can include on your Student Officer profile to make it engaging and serve as a platform to share with students what you’re up to? We can help! 

Editing Your Officer Page

To find where to edit your page, follow the steps below:

1. Go to your officer page. You can find the Student Officer pages at the following link here: https://studentsunionucl.org/officers

2. If you are logged in to the website, you will see a button below your officer title labelled ‘Edit’. 

   

3. Click on the sidebar that says ‘Current Office Holder(s)’

   

4. In the box that says “Officer statement”, you can now add content!

Top Tips

Tip 1: First Person

When writing on your page, use the first person! This is your page; you should be able to have your voice heard. And, if you are in a job-share, ‘we’ is fine too. 

Additionally, it makes people feel more included when you refer to the reader as ‘you’! 

Tip 2: What are your Frequently Asked Questions?

As you carry out your role, you’ll discover that students might approach you with similar questions. For example, if you’re the Societies Officer, you could be asked how to join a society. 

In this case, a good way to fill out a page is to list your frequently asked questions and direct people to your profile if they have further questions later. 

If you’re worried about too much content, use an accordion to keep large text sections tucked away until a reader wants to see them. 

In the image below, we have highlighted the accordion button to help you easily locate it when editing your page.

Tip 3: Photos & Media

Photos and media are a quick way to enhance a page and make it more engaging. These photos should ideally feature you performing your role as an Officer or be directly related to your role. 

The golden rule is: “If you’d be happy to post it on LinkedIn, it can go on your Officer Page.”
For example, this guide feels significantly more engaging when I include our beloved unofficial Union dog, Frankie, compared to when she's not part of it.

Tip 4: Linking Relevant Union Content

Are you an Officer with a Network? Do you have relevant societies linked to your role? Is there a Charity Partner you could highlight? Put it on your profile! 

The Union is bursting with opportunities, and we really encourage you to put the things you think are relevant from the Union on your profile. 

Quick guide for creating accessible written content 

1. Use heading styles and use them in a sensible hierarchy in both Word and web pages and create bookmarks and document structure tags when creating PDFs.
2. Add descriptive Alternative Text to images to help those who use screen readers (and if an image is purely decorative, you can mark it as such). You should also do this in Word and PowerPoint documents, not just web pages.
3. Use descriptive hyperlinks to direct your audience to other content instead of web address links (and never use ‘click here’).
4. Use bullets and numbered lists to break up text and use punctuation at the end of each item.
5. Don’t underline text, or it will be confused with links.
6. Think about people with shade-blindness and colour-blindness and use contrast and patterns to convey meaning as well as colour. Avoid using red, green and pink to convey information.
7. Include captions, transcripts and/or audio descriptions in multimedia if possible.
8. Use left-justified paragraphs and increase your margins to reduce the width of text blocks, thereby improving readability. 

And remember, by making your files fully accessible to people with disabilities, they will be easier for everyone to use! 

Further Helpful Links

Check out our how-to guides on content editing at the following link here: https://studentsunionucl.org/how-to/category/content-editing