CAHSS Student Ambassador (Undergraduate) chez Edinburgh University Group
Edinburgh University Group · Edinburgh, Royaume-Uni · Hybrid
- Bureau à Edinburgh
Grade UE02 £22,995 - £23,350 per annum, pro rata (£12.60 - £12.79 per hour, plus 18.1% in lieu of annual leave)
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / Student Recruitment & Admissions
Part time, Guaranteed Hours contract: 20 hours per year
Fixed Term: initially until 31 July 2025
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 normally resident in all UK countries, from all Schools and subject areas across the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
The Opportunity:
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.
CAHSS Student Ambassadors key role will be to support the College’s Calling Campaign on a Tuesday or Wednesday evening each week from December to approx. end of April, pro-actively contacting applicants from widening participation backgrounds across the United Kingdom to offer Information, advice and guidance on what they might want to consider when choosing whatever offer they think is right for them. We are not calling them to convince them to choose Edinburgh, so no hard sell.
Ambassadors will also have a plethora of opportunities to represent the University, their School and the student body to internal and external audiences. The work is always varied, and may include peer-to-peer text chat, social media content creation, student panels, campus tours, and online and on-campus events. Ambassadors will receive specific training to support the activity that is expected of them.
The work is also flexible around your studies – there are only a few 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 £12.60 per hour. As the work is ad-hoc an increment of 18.1% is applied to cover holiday pay (£2.28). This means Student Ambassadors receive around £14.88 for each hour worked.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Passionate about the student experience, especially for students from Widening Participation backgrounds.
- Current student at the University of Edinburgh and ordinarily domiciled in the UK.
- Represent the University with integrity, professionalism and enthusiasm
- Excellent communication skills, verbally and in writing, in person and online to a variety of audiences
- Cultural sensitivity and awareness of our diverse society
- An ability to work in a team as well as independently
- Reliable with excellent time-management and organisational skills
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Important information for your application:
- Desirable but not essential: Widening Participation background and normally resident in Scotland, England, Wales or Northern Ireland. Some examples of Widening Participation backgrounds would be living in an SIMD20 postcode in Scotland, A POLAR1 postcode in England, Adult Returners and Care Experienced Students. These are examples only and not exhaustive criteria. If you are unsure whether you would be considered as coming from a Widening Participation background, please contact the Applicant Experience and Conversion Officer at [email protected] and we will be happy to explore this with you.
- If you already have an existing work contract with another department within the University of Edinburgh use your University work email address when applying for this role, not your student UUN email address.
- Please submit a cover letter/personal statement, this should be no longer than one page of A4. Your cover letter must outline your skills and experience, clearly indicating how that experience is relevant to the Student Ambassador position. This cover letter must also include the answers to the following questions:
Why do you want to be a Student Ambassador? Why are you passionate about the University of Edinburgh’s student experience? What do you wish someone had told you while you were choosing which offer to accept and how would that have helped you choose?
- 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/résumé to support your application.
- If you are unfamiliar with a cover letter, you can find more information at our Careers Service – How to write your cover letter
- We will not look at references for this role as these are not required – when completing the online application please put “not applicable” in this section.
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 Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT 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).
The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
You must also have, or be applying for, a National Insurance Number. Everyone working in the UK is required to have one. Further information is available on our National Insurance webpages.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 6 October 2026.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm British Summer Time. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
It is intended that invitations to Interview will be sent by email on Tuesday 7 October 2026
Interviews will be held Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 October 2026 – you will be asked to state which time you are available after you have submitted your application
Initial compulsory training will be held in person or online on Monday 10 or Tuesday 11 November 2026. This is paid training. We request you attend in person if possible.
About Company
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.
