Job Description
Grade UE02: £22,995- £23,350 per annum, pro rata
USG / Student Recruitment and Admissions
Fixed Term (based on duration of studies), Guaranteed Hours contract: 10 hours per year
We are looking for enthusiastic
Postgraduate Student Ambassadors to share your authentic experience with prospective students and their supporters. We welcome applications from both on-campus and online postgraduate students.
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.
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 £12.60 per hour. As the work is ad-hoc an increment of 18.1% is applied to cover holiday pay (£2.28).
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
Passionate about the student experience
Current postgraduate student at the University of Edinburgh and residing in the UK
Represent the University 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
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
Completing your application
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/résumé to support your application. Our advice on how to write this is here: Application advice
Use of AI tools in writing your application
We strongly recommend you do not use AI tools to write your cover letter. We have recently seen a rise in cover letters that do not match the person we interview. When this happens the candidate is removed from the process. Please ensure that your cover letter represents you and includes real examples from your past experience.
Applying and next steps after submission
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.
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.
Once you have submitted to P&M our team will contact you asking you to fill out an additional form to help us with the recruitment process, which includes essential information we need for your Right to Work Check. You will be given 2 days to complete this form.
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.
Working in the UK
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
Monday 22 nd September 2025.
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.
Interviews will be held
w/c Monday 20 th October – 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: Training will take place in-person on Saturday, November 8 2025 between 10:00-16:30. This is the only training session available to on campus students.
For all online students: There will be an online session (through Microsoft Teams) on Thursday, November 13, from 18:00-20:00. Online students who live in or around Edinburgh can opt to attend the in-person training above if they prefer. This will give you the option of doing in-person work.
On campus students
cannot choose to attend the virtual session as this session will not cover everything we need to go through for on-campus work.
You will only be considered an online student if you are studying a PhD by distance or one of the degree programmes listed here: https://postgraduate.degrees.ed.ac.uk/index.php?r=site/online
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.
