Information for students
Being a Student Ambassador is a great way to get involved with the University, have fun and gain valuable skills.
When is the next recruitment?
We typically recruit on-campus postgraduate ambassadors in Autumn semester. We welcome applications from new Masters students as well as PhD students in any year of their programme. Please come back and look at this website in early September 2023 for more details about Postgraduate Student Ambassador recruitment.
We may host a small Undergraduate Ambassador recruitment process in the Autumn. Please check this website in early September for more details about whether we are recruiting ambassadors from your academic discipline. Applications are usually due during Week 1 of classes.
What are student ambassadors?
Student Ambassadors are an essential part of the University’s recruitment and pre-arrival activity. The ideal candidate is someone who is enthusiastic about sharing your authentic student experience with prospective students and their supporters. Ambassadors will have opportunities to represent the University, their School and their academic programme to internal and external audiences.
Ambassadors will receive specific training to support the activity that is expected of them.
The work is varied and dependent on ability, interest and availability. It includes but is not limited to participating in activities that allow you to share your student experience with prospective students and their supporters. For example:
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Student panels
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Peer-to-peer text chat
- Blogging/vlogging
- Social media content creation
- Assisting with recruitment, offer holder and welcome events
- Participating in photo shoots/video, focus groups and other marketing activity
- Opportunity to be involved with wider University activities, for example graduations
Essential
- Matriculated on-campus undergraduate student at the University of Edinburgh during the 2022/23 and 2023/24 academic years
- Reside in the UK during the 2023/24 academic year
- Be able to attend an online interview via MS Teams during the 19-21 April 2023.
- If unable to attend the in-person training in September you must be able to watch the training recording and complete self-directed online training by Friday, 29th September 2023.
- Excellent communication skills, verbally and in writing
- Awareness of equality and diversity
- Passionate about the university experience and the University of Edinburgh in particular
- Represent the University with integrity, professionalism and enthusiasm
- Friendly, approachable and happy to initiate contact with prospective students and/or their supporters
- Reliable with excellent time-management and organisational skills
- Willingness to follow instruction
- Excellent team working skill
- Self-motivated to work on individual tasks
- Basic IT skills eg. use of Microsoft Office suite
- Access to a desktop, laptop or smart device
Desirable
- Attend in-person training led by the Student Recruitment and Admissions team in September, tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, 13th September.
- Previous customer service experience or having held a similar ambassador type role
- Awareness of the barriers people might face when accessing Higher Education
- Experience of blogging or creating social media content (this includes social content for personal use)
Pay and contracts
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Student Ambassadors are guaranteed a minimum of 10 hours of work in each year of their contract. Work only needs to be accepted if they are available but we encourage active participation throughout the year in a variety of roles.
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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.
- Student Ambassadors are paid £11.14 per hour (plus 16% in lieu of annual leave allowances) - updated 7 February 2023.
Interested in applying to be an ambassador next year?
If after reading the information detailed above, you are interested in the Student Ambassador position you can check this webpage for application details in September or email our team to be added to our mailing list. If you join the mailing list we will email you when there are new ambassador roles available.
Join our mailing list:
student.ambassadors@ed.ac.uk
Need Help?
If you have any questions about the position or the application that are not answered on this page please contact the Student Ambassador team: mailto:student.ambassadors@ed.ac.uk