Job Description

Grade UE03: 23,742 to 25,804 per annum pro rata

CSE / School of Chemistry, Marketing / Recruitment and Communication Team

Part-time: 3 hours per week in term time academic year 2025/26

Fixed-term: 31st May 2026

The Opportunity:

The School of Chemistry is looking for Student Ambassadors interested in creating engaging social media content, (reels and posts) predominately for our Instagram channel. The project's objective is to showcase authentic student-created and student-led digital content highlighting the School of Chemistry student experience. The project's goal is to help engage with prospective students and their supporters to help them better understand what living and studying Chemistry in Edinburgh is like from our students' perspective. The post-holders will research different social media trends and be supported to prepare engaging content to inspire prospective students and offer holders to study Chemistry with us. The postholders will work closely with the School's Marketing, Recruitment and Communications team to help showcase the school's sense of community and what you love about life studying Chemistry and living in Edinburgh. Guidance will also be given around equipment/editing. For inspiration please visit the School Instagram to view our current content.


This exciting opportunity is open to all School of Chemistry undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh. It assumes an equivalent of 3 hours work per week to complete the project and can be flexible to fit around the postholder's studying and other commitments.


The successful applicants must be in Edinburgh during the project.


Informal enquiries about the role are very welcome - you can contact Martin.Boddie@ed.ac.uk for further information.

Your skills and attributes for success:

Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills Demonstratable interest in creating engaging content for social media including Instagram Demonstrable interest in Chemistry and/or STEM subjects and showcasing how Chemistry is key to a sustainable future addressing key global issues Proactive, resourceful and enthusiastic to learn new skills and technologies and engage with audiences Comfortable balancing studying and working independently with a wide range of people A strong sense of service delivery and motivation to inspire others from a wide range of backgrounds/cultures

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As a valued member of our team, you can expect:

A competitive salary and a wide range of

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staff discounts, and entitlement to all staff benefits during their employment. An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. You will be supported to make connections with a wide range of staff, learn new skills, and have the opportunity to be creative and apply your own ideas to make a difference. The opportunity to make a difference in other students' lives, you'll help us make students from all backgrounds feel more welcome and confident about joining us and staying.

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

28

th

of October 2025

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