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WBS CareersPlus Work Experience and Placements Ambassador

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1079953


University of Warwick


16/09/2024


Other - See Job


Maximum 5 hours per week (flexible) Monday – Friday 9-5pm apart from any events which may be outside of normal university working hours although this would be discussed in advance


Smart Casual

Pay


£12.00


£1.45

Description

Role
The WBS Undergraduate CareersPlus Team provides a specialised careers service solely for UG Warwick Business School students. We are looking for a Work Experience Ambassador to support our UG service and to help shape our work experience and placement provision and promotion to students.

Duties and responsibilities

  • Advocate all types of undergraduate work experience – insight days/internships and work placements.
  • Coordinate, lead and facilitate on and offline events with our team of placement pro volunteers
  • Promote different campaigns/initiatives e.g. lecture shout-outs 
  • Analyse current student expectations through means of network/surveys, provide feedback to Careers service in order to contribute to the content and support the development of careers resource pages on my.wbs
  • Support with student placement pop-up sessions during term time and signpost internal career services
  • Support year away work-related specific information sessions throughout the year i.e. contribute to student panels and/or student Q&A sessions
  • Work collaboratively with the Communications and Engagement and Year Abroad Ambassadors to deliver holistic campaigns throughout the year on and offline
  • Explore ideas/systems for recording and capturing seasonal internship information for undergraduate students
  • Work with the Placement and Internship team to develop a placement culture across the business school
  • Deliver keynote speeches at our key Year Away events (such as Year Away Student of the Year awards)
  • Be an advocate on social media and provide support and guidance on platforms such as Linkedin to WBS students considering any work experience/placement year activity
  • To engage with WBS academics/lecturers across all WBS modules and present in lectures/seminars your own learned experience the importance of undertaking work experience (e.g. a placement year/internship) and how these can impact specific employability skills and how the learning outcomes from these modules are applicable to real-world employment practice

Skills and experience
Essential 

  • A final year WBS Student who has previously undertaken an optional placement year or year abroad work placement 
  • WBS Student for the 2024-25 academic year 
  • Prepared to work up to 5 hours a week for this role from September to May (hours are flexible) 
  • Experience in Public Speaking/Presenting to audiences
Desirable 
  • Experience in Digital and physical communications 
  • Passionate about work experience and promoting the benefits to undergraduate students 
  • Affiliations with student societies (WBSS, WFS, WCS, WAFS)

Location
Combination of working from home and on campus (must be in the UK)

Additional information

  • Predicted interview date - End of May 24
  • Start and end date: 16/09/24 - 16/05/25
  • Deadline to apply: 22.05.24

Please provide a CV and cover letter with your application.

Please note upon applying for this role you are consenting to your contact details being shared directly with the hiring manager.

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