Student Ambassador in Edinburgh

Grade UE02: £24,547 per annum, pro rata. Guaranteed Hours contract: 20 hours per annum. Fixed term: duration dependant on length of study.

We are looking for enthusiastic Undergraduate Student Ambassadors to share your authentic experience with prospective students and their supporters. To ensure representation across the University's academic programmes and to complement our current pool of ambassadors, we are recruiting Undergraduate Student Ambassadors from particular schools and subject areas within them.

The Opportunity: Being a Student Ambassador is a great way to get involved in university life, have fun, and gain valuable transferable skills. You'll play a key role in helping prospective students and their supporters understand what makes the University of Edinburgh a great place to study. Student Ambassadors represent the University, their School, and the wider student body to a range of internal and external audiences. The work is varied and may include leading campus tours, supporting on-campus and online events, taking part in peer-to-peer text chat, contributing to student panels, and supporting other activities throughout the year. Ambassadors will receive role-specific training to support the activities they undertake. The role is flexible and designed to fit around your studies, with no guaranteed or set number of hours per week or month. While the work is ad hoc and cannot offer a steady income, it provides valuable paid work experience. The pay rate for this role is £13.45 per hour, with an additional 18.1% (£2.43) applied to cover holiday pay.

Essential skills and attributes for success:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Awareness of equality, diversity, and inclusion
• Passionate about the university experience and the University of Edinburgh
• Able to represent the University with integrity, professionalism, and enthusiasm
• Friendly, approachable, and confident initiating contact with prospective students and/or their supporters
• Reliable, with strong time-management and organisational skills
• Willingness to follow instructions and guidance
• Excellent team-working skills
• Self-motivated and able to work independently on individual tasks
• Basic IT skills (e.g. use of Microsoft Office)
• Current student at the University of Edinburgh and residing in the UK

Desirable skills and experience:

• Previous customer service experience or experience in a similar ambassador-type role
• Awareness of barriers that individuals may face when accessing Higher Education

How to apply:

Completing your application Before you apply, we strongly recommend you check that we are recruiting students from your undergraduate degree programme. You can do that here: Full list of accepted degree programmes. You can then find our full advice on how to complete your application here: Application advice. Please submit a cover letter/personal statement, this should be no longer than one page of A4. This cover letter must answer the following questions: Why do you want to be a Student Ambassador? What skills and experience do you have that are relevant, in particular in relation to the essential and desirable criteria? The cover letter is the most important part of your application and will be used to decide who is progressed to interview but you can also submit a CV/resume to support your application.

Key dates to note:

• The closing date for applications is Wednesday 2 March.
• Interviews will be held w/c Monday 23rd March.
• Training will be conducted on campus on Saturday 23rd May.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality. To ensure that our ambassadors appropriately represent the University we will be recruiting students to reflect the diversity of the student body. We encourage all applications, and we welcome applications from students who are evidentially underrepresented within our student body including those from black and ethnic minority backgrounds, individuals who are care experienced and those who have lived experience of a UK state school.