Student Ambassador (ACES)

Grade UE02, Salary Range £21,978- £22,134

Student Recruitment and Admissions

Fixed Term/Guaranteed hours 40 hours across duration of fixed contract

Fixed Term Dates: 08 August 2024 – 31 July 2025

The Widening Participation Team is looking for two Student Ambassadors to support the delivery of the ACES project (Access to Creative Education in Scotland). Our Student Ambassadors help with the full range of events we offer and give insight into student life. 

We welcome applicants from all sections of the community, regardless of age, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, nationality, religion, sexual orientation or transgender status. We strongly encourage 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, and those from backgrounds that the ACES project supports. 

To ensure that our Student Ambassadors appropriately represent the University, we will be recruiting students to reflect the diversity of the student body and subject areas.

The Opportunity:

Join our small team of creative practitioners and support us in achieving big results for under-represented and disadvantaged young people interested in studying art, design, or architecture at university. The events delivered by ACES range from a six-month Portfolio Preparation Programme to one-off events and online talks. Our events are delivered blended (a mix of online and in-person activity) and the successful students will be supporting both.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• You are a current, matriculated student (including academic session 2024-25) within the School of Art, School of Design, or ESALA at Edinburgh College of Art 
• Work experience or internship in education or a customer facing position, with demonstrable ability to deal with people in a professional, helpful and welcoming manner.
• An understanding of, and empathy for, the student groups targeted within Widening Participation programmes
• Good oral and written communication skills 
• Excellent interpersonal skills, flexibility and time-management skills 

Two posts are available. As most shifts will be available from September to January around Portfolio Prep, the successful applicants must be available to work one of

• Fridays 13:00-17:30 between 30/08/24 to 31/01/25
• Saturday 11:00-14:30 between 31/08/24 to 01/02/25

A detailed Portfolio Prep schedule can be requested.

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As a valued member of our team you can expect: 

• To gain fantastic experience working with young people and supporting events
• An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. 
• To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
• Comprehensive Staff Benefits; check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total 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 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.

Key dates to note

The closing date for applications is Monday 6 May 2024. Interviews will be held in-person on Tuesday 14 May 2024.

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

An in-person training day for the successful candidates is scheduled for Friday 9 August 2024.

If you have any questions about this role, please email stef.blum@ed.ac.uk