The Student Council is looking for new members. 

Are you motivated to bring change to the school?

Do you want to learn how to make collective decisions?

Are you excited about supporting students' projects?

Do you have ideas to strengthen our community?

You can become a part of the student-led body of Rietveld and Sandberg.

             APPLY NOW!

This is a paid position at the working student rate of scale 1, the contract is for 8 hours a week. We meet once a week for two hours, the other hours are spread throughout the week depending on the projects/working groups you’re participating in. The contract will last until the end of 2024, with a possibility of extension of up-to around a year . For non-EU students, we will apply for a work permit that allows you to have a contract at school.

The Student Council aims to be a bridge and a connective tissue between the divergent parts of the school. Its roles include listening to student voices and putting forward student-centered ideas, supporting community-oriented student-led projects through funding, and developing democratic structures, created for and by students.

What will you be doing? 

The focus of the Student Council is to address concerns and issues that students find important that are not (yet) sufficiently considered in the school’s organization and community. What does that mean? It means you will be supporting student initiatives, writing open calls, following up with people, planning, organizing, supervising, attending meetings, writing agendas and minutes, scheduling, connecting, checking in and archiving.

WAIT, WHAT? 

Here are some examples of what took place during the last years:

• We have supported over 100 student-led projects, all funded through our biannual Spring and Fall Funding Round. Last Fall we chose “Assemblies” as the theme, the Spring Round was centered around Rest as Resistance. You can see the projects here: https://studentcouncil.nl/projects/
• We’ve provided menstrual products for the Rietveld and Sandberg students.
• We’ve initiated, produced and supported lectures, events and gatherings outside of the Funding Rounds, especially when Covid destabilized our education and the wars in Ukraine and Palestine brought stress to our environment. 
• We’ve collaborated with other bodies within the schools such as Unsettling, Non-EU Support, Colab, including the recent Program in Solidarity: Learning from Palestine.
• We’ve helped students finding their ways to confidential advisors and joined some in these meetings

HOW TO APPLY:

Please send us a motivation letter (one A4) and a CV with relevant experience, keeping in mind the following:

• What topics interest you?
• Which skills or history do you have that will be useful for working as a Student Council member?
• What would you like to see differently in the Rietveld and Sandberg? This includes the past and future.
• What issue/urgencies in the Rietveld and Sandberg would you like to address as a member of the Student Council?
• Please also mention whether you have worked in the school previously, for how long, and what your position was.

Are you interested? Please send your motivation to studentcouncil@rietveldacademie.nl by Midnight on Sunday February 11th of 2024. Current Student Council members will select up to 10 students for interviews, of which 3 students will be chosen to join the Student Council.

We aim and work towards having a diversity of experiences and identities present in the Student Council. This will be reflected in the process of our selection. 

Additionally, we will prioritize students who will not be graduating this semester. This will allow the Student Council to have an up-to-date understanding of the school’s community and a continuous engagement with it through its members.

The interviews are planned to take place on Friday the 16th of February.

The position starts in the Spring, with a first orientation meeting by the end of February, 2024.

Big love,

Student Council