Skills Ambassadors 2025/2026

Reference
1095218

Branch
University of Salford

Start date
30/06/2025

Duration
Ongoing

Hours and days
0 - 12 per week

Dress code
Smart Casual

Rate of pay
£12.67

Holiday rate
£1.53

Role

The Library, Careers and Enterprise Service are looking to recruit a team of enthusiastic current University of Salford students to become our Library, Careers & Enterprise Skills Ambassadors.

The focus of the roles will be to raise awareness of the Library, Careers and Enterprise Service through pro-active engagement with current students, graduates and staff.  You will direct service users towards our range of Library, Careers and Enterprise Services such as workshops, e-learning and one-to-one appointments and events. 

You will also be an initial point of contact for all visitors to the Careers Hub in the Lady Hale building, answering questions and dealing with queries from students, staff, alumni, and employers. You will also provide support during events such as Welcome, Careers Fairs and Enterprise Start Up Schools.

As part of your role, you’ll develop a keen understanding of the Library, Careers and Enterprise Service offer and provide information to inspire others about getting started. You’ll provide a personable, relatable service for enquirers to understand what is on offer from the Library and the Careers and Enterprise Service.

Duties and responsibilities

Job Specification

Representing the Library, Careers and Enterprise Service to your fellow students to raise awareness of what is on offer and encourage students to take part, e.g. through roving across campus, promoting and distributing resources such as posters and flyers.

You will be actively initiating conversations and engaging with students whilst roving and staffing campus wide stalls and events. This involves striking up conversation with students you don’t know, to tell them about our services and how we can support them. You will be required to meet student engagement targets on all your shifts.

Supporting with events on campus (including careers fairs). To act as guides and to answer any questions from guests (students, staff, employers, and visitors).

Be part of our student voice and help us improve our services through focus groups and feedback activities, including collecting feedback on campus and sharing feedback forms with the wider student body.

Meeting student engagement targets set through the year.

Be responsible for staffing Careers and Enterprise Quick Query Drop-Ins – providing students with information on Academic Skills, Digital Skills, Numeracy, Careers or Enterprise topics (training will be provided for this).

Complete ad-hoc small tasks as and when required, these could include assisting with social media, printing, inputting data and preparing resources for a careers fair.

 

Skills and experience

Our essential criteria

• You must be a current student in January 2026 at the University of Salford and must be available to work on any campus (Peel Park, Frederick Road, or Media City) throughout term-time.
• You must be outgoing in your approach to the role – being able to spark up a conversation with anyone, including people you don’t know, to speak passionately about Library, Careers and Enterprise.
• You can show initiative and be able to solve problems proactively.
• You must be organised, flexible and adaptive, with excellent time management skills, as this role will likely include a variety of tasks completed at different times and places.
• You must be able to work well in team but also work well independently. There will be times when you are working closely alongside your teammates, but you may also be asked to work some shifts alone.
• You must be an excellent communicator, with the ability to use active listening skills.

Location
University of Salford

Additional information

Extra Information: 

You must be eligible to work in the UK alongside your studies (you may be working between 0-12 hours per week. International students with a visa that allows for part-time work are welcome to apply).

You’ll be working on all campuses (Peel Park, Frederick Road, and Media City), but will be centred around Clifford Whitworth Library and the Lady Hale building where the Careers and Enterprise Hub is located.  You will often be roving around Peel Park and Fredrick Road Campus, but you may be asked to work at Media City on occasion. The role will involve standing for long periods of time (notwithstanding reasonable adjustments) and weather appropriate clothing and layers will be needed. A uniform (polo shirt, hoodie and waterproof jacket) will be provided.

Please apply through the red button below with your up-to-date CV and covering letter explaining how your skills, knowledge and experience make you suitable for this role. 

It is also a requirement of the application process that you complete the questions in the submission of interest form from the link below or copy and paste this link to your browser to access the form https://forms.office.com/e/Ke94zq4fVi:

Expression of interest form

The closing date for applications is Friday 25th April 11.55pm and interviews will be held in the first week of May, on campus.

Start date:  30th June 2025. 

Training Dates: 30th June – 10th July 2025.  You must be available for the 2 weeks of training on campus.

Duration: 6 months - possibility of further contract extensions subject to performance in role.

Hours and days:  Variable hours - minimum 0 hours up to 12 hours per week.

Dress code:  Smart Casual – some uniform will be provided (polo shirt, hoodie and waterproof jacket). Layers and weather appropriate clothing recommended as there will be some work outside

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