Job Description

USG / Student Recruitment and Admissions

Grade UE05: 29,588 - 33,951 per annum, pro rata

Part time: 17.5 hours per week

Fixed term: until 31/7/2026

The Opportunity:

The Project Support Officer role will contribute to the administration, organisation and delivery of the Access to High Demand Professions (AHDP) project, within the University's Widening Participation team.


The Project Support Officer will provide key administrative, organisational and event delivery support to Access to Creative Education Scotland (ACES) Edinburgh and Reach Edinburgh projects. The post holder will facilitate events, including the Portfolio Preparation programme on Fridays.


The role will occasionally support wider team and departmental outreach and recruitment activities.


This role is designed to enable those with an interest in Widening Participation to develop valuable skills and experience within a busy and creative team supporting school pupils from the most underrepresented backgrounds to progress into Higher Education.


We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and wish to particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black and ethnic minority backgrounds as well as backgrounds that the AHDP projects support.

Your skills and attributes for success:

You have an understanding of, and empathy for, the student groups targeted within Widening Participation programmes You are a team player who strives to support colleagues as well as external audiences Very good written and oral communication skills Excellent IT skills and working knowledge of MS Office packages

The successful candidate will support the ACES Portfolio Preparation Programme and regularly work Fridays 12:00-17:30 between 05/12/2025 to 24/01/2026.



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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, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. 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, a Disclosure Scotland PVG check needs to be completed. Further information is available on our PVG Check 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

Wednesday 15 October 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 in-person on

Wednesday 29 October 2025

For queries about the role, please email

stef.blum@ed.ac.uk