Postgraduate Student Ambassador

Job Description

Grade UE02: £24,547 per annum, pro-rata

Student Recruitment and Admissions

Guaranteed Hours: 10 hours per annum contract

Fixed Term: dependant on length of studies

The Opportunity:

Discover new ways to make an impact. Unlocking Edinburgh.

Our people come from a wide range of backgrounds, each bringing their abilities and experiences to our organisation, helping us thrive and innovate together.

We are looking for enthusiastic Postgraduate Student Ambassadors, who are undertaking their studies on campus, to share your authentic experience with prospective students and their supporters.

The University of Edinburgh is a world-class organisation. We are a large University covering a wide range of activities. In Professional Services, we support the University's research and teaching, offering many career and role specialisms.

Being a Student Ambassador is a great way to get involved at the University, have fun and gain valuable skills. You're also helping prospective students learn why the University of Edinburgh is a great place to study.

Ambassadors will have opportunities to represent the University, their School and the student body to internal and external audiences. The work is always varied but will primarily involve opportunities to lead campus tours, on-campus and online events, peer-to-peer text chat, and student panels. As well as other activities that arise throughout the year. Ambassadors will receive specific training to support the activity that is expected of them.

The work is also flexible around your studies - there are no set hours per week or month. Whilst this work cannot offer a frequent income, it does offer valuable work experience. The pay rate for this role is £13.45 per hour. As the work is ad-hoc, an increment of 18.1% is applied to cover holiday pay.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Driven to make a real impact on student recruitment activity
• Proud to represent the University - always acting with integrity, professionalism, and enthusiasm
• Excellent communication skills, verbally and in writing, both in person and online to a variety of audiences
• Awareness of equality and diversity
• A dependable team player and work independently when needed
• Reliable with excellent time-management and organisational skills

People have always been at the heart of our work. Our people are at the centre of the University community and everything we do. We value colleagues with drive, determination and a passion for what they do.

As a valued member of our team, you can expect:

• A competitive salary.
• An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
• To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
• Comprehensive Staff Benefits, including generous annual leave entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, a wide range of staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page(opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the value of your pay and benefits.

Championing equality, diversity, and inclusion

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 a Stonewall Proud Employer, actively promoting LGBTQ+ equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University, you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages(opens new browser tab)

Key dates to note

The closing date for applications is Monday 21st September. Please note, once you submit your application, you will be sent an additional online application form to complete. This allows us to complete necessary Right to Work checks. If you do not complete this by the deadline, we will be unable to progress your application.

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm UK time. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.

Interviews will be held week commencing 5th October 2026. If you are successful to interview you will be given the opportunity to select a range of interview dates and times that would suit you. If you do not complete this by the deadline given at that time, we will not be able to progress your application.

For all new Student Ambassadors attendance at a training session is mandatory.

For all on campus students: Mandatory training will take place in-person on Saturday 7th November 2026, between 10:00-16:30. This is the only training session available to on campus students and you will not be able to undertake any work as a Student Ambassador unless you complete this training.

Please note that additional training will be required beyond these sessions, details of this will be given at the time.

About Us

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow's greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About the Team

Student Recruitment and Admissions (SRA) leads the design, development and implementation of the University of Edinburgh's strategy for student recruitment, admissions, and widening participation. SRA is one of a number of key services within the University Secretary's Group (USG). We contribute to two core University strategies: the Student Recruitment Strategy and the Widening Participation Strategy.

We support the implementation of these strategies in two ways:

• Our teams deliver a range of core, University-wide activities;
• We lead and co-ordinate the delivery of aspects of the strategies where there is shared responsibility with Schools, Colleges and Support Group services.

Our departmental values are:

• Professional: we are experts and skilled practitioners: adept communicators, analysts and strategic thinkers.
• Collaborative: we work in partnership with colleagues within and beyond the University, forming valuable networks and teams.
• Constructive: we are helpful, supportive, reliable and trustworthy.
• Creative: we are innovative, inspiring, proactive and flexible.