Student Ambassador and Events Coordinator

About the Role
We are seeking a Student Ambassador and Events Coordinator to support student recruitment and widening participation activity at Queen Mary University of London.

Working within the Student Recruitment and Widening Participation team the postholder will coordinate the Student Ambassador Scheme, supporting ambassador recruitment, training, scheduling and administration to ensure a high-quality experience for prospective students. The role will also coordinate key recruitment and outreach activity, including enquiry management, campus tours and Post-16 campus visits.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys coordinating people and activity, working with students, and supporting access to higher education.

About You
You will have experience coordinating or supporting a student ambassador, volunteer or peer workforce, and delivering small to medium-scale events or outreach activity.

You will demonstrate strong organisational and administrative skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities accurately. You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, a strong customer-focused approach, and confidence using IT systems and digital tools, including CRM systems and Microsoft applications.

Experience of working within higher education or a comparable education, public service or community-focused environment, and experience of delivering presentations or workshops, would be an advantage.

About the School Department
The role sits within the Student Recruitment and Widening Participation team, part of the wider Marketing and Widening Participation function in the External Relations Directorate. The team is responsible for recruiting students across the UK, with a particular focus on supporting students from under-represented backgrounds to access higher education and progress successfully. Through events, outreach, ambassador-led activity and digital engagement, the team delivers activity aligned to Queen Mary’s Access and Participation Plan priorities and plays a key role in promoting the University’s educational offer and supporting Strategy 2030.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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