The Swedish Welfare Council has chosen a new management for the coming year. The new manager boasts of his commitment despite the fact that he could have wished for more candidates.
– It feels a bit surreal, says the newly elected leader.
On Tuesday, the Welfare Council in Gjøvik, Ålesund and Trondheim elected new leadership, called the working committee. Jakob Øygarden Selfors was elected as the new manager.
The Welfare Board manages the semester fee and must look after the students’ welfare offer. He and the rest of the management in the working committee will serve from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025.
Facts
This is the new working committee
- Manager: Jakob Ø. Selfors
- Deputy Chairman: Henrik Vorkinn
- Association manager: Kornelia Hagberg
- Communication officer: Ida S. Skarshaug
In a press release from the Norwegian Welfare Board, it is stated that Selfors had a clear motivation behind applying for the full-time position.
– Students are characterized by a tight economy, a pressured housing market and an increasing proportion of loneliness. I want to work to ensure that all students can get good welfare offers that meet them where they are, he says in the press release.
No lack of commitment
Selfors tells Universitetsavisa that he started thinking about running for the working committee ever since he learned about the Welfare Board, just over a year ago.
– It has been a plan for half a year, but the idea of the leadership position came a little later, he says.
There was a real election for three of the four positions on the working committee, which means that more than one candidate ran for three positions. Selfors is very pleased with that.
– Although we would have liked to have a few more candidates, there is definitely no shortage of commitment, he says.
The position where only one candidate applied was for the position of deputy chairman.
Has clear priorities
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The new manager has clear priorities for what he wants to work on in the coming year.
– It will be particularly fun to follow up on the upgrading of Dødens dal, and to strengthen cooperation with political leadership in the municipality, says Selfors.
At the same time, he is most looking forward to working with the low-threshold offers for the Swedish Welfare Council.
– I hope I can link the student body closer to the offer that exists.
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