Student Projects and Campaigns Assistant

About the Role

The Student Projects and Campaigns Assistant plays a vital role in supporting the planning, delivery and evaluation of student-focused events and campaigns. The role involves working as part of the Student Life team, creating content for digital and print communications, supporting the delivery of welcome and induction activities, coordinating peer mentoring schemes, and maintaining Student Life web and social media channels. The post-holder will also carry out a range of administrative tasks, provide support for student enquiries, and collaborate with the Students' Union and other university departments to enhance the overall student experience.

About You

The successful candidate will hold relevant academic or vocational qualifications (such as GCSEs, NVQs, or City & Guilds), with a degree-level qualification considered desirable. They will have experience working in a customer-focused environment and will demonstrate excellent communication, IT, and organisational skills. Proficiency in using social media, website content management, and design software (such as Adobe Creative Suite) is advantageous, as is an understanding of student wellbeing and experience in coordinating events. The role also requires a flexible approach, with a willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends.

About the Department

The Student Experience Directorate is the university’s main student support directorate and comprises Library Services, Careers and Enterprise, Registry Services and Student Wellbeing. Student Wellbeing is made up of the Advice and Counselling Service, the Disability and Dyslexia Service and the Student Life team, which oversees diverse areas such as the Chaplaincy, the Student Health Service, Report and Support and Music. Student Life also manage the university’s welcome and induction programme for new and continuing students, the Buddy Scheme (peer mentoring scheme for UGs) and play a crucial role in delivering the campus experience for students in collaboration with QMSU and Residential Services.

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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