The Örebro Student Union's chairman is politically elected by the General Council and has overall responsibility for leading the Örebro Student Union's operations. The chairman is responsible for student policy issues and for contact with external actors such as the municipality and university management as well as with other student unions. Together with the vice-chairmen, the chairman leads the union board's work to implement the business plan on behalf of the General Council, and has the primary responsibility for ensuring that the union board meets in accordance with the statutes and leads the work forward.

Internally in the organization, the chairman is also responsible for finances and budget work, must lead all meetings that fall to the chairman according to the union board's policy, and be the contact person for Örebro Student Union's elected representatives.

As mentioned, external work consists of being in contact with stakeholders such as the municipality, the university and the region on external organizational and strategic issues and overall student policy issues.