Good afternoon SBM Students
Welcome back and welcome to all who have just arrived this year. We are looking forward to working with you all.
We have now opened the opportunity for students wishing to apply for the position of SBM Student Ambassador for this academic year (2024 – 2025).
If you are looking for casual work and you are…
- Passionate about your course, SBM and QMUL
- Have or want events experience
- Social Media Savvy
- Confident and comfortable talking to groups of people
- Comfortable in using online meeting platforms such as MS Teams and Zoom
…then this opportunity may be for you.
WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?
The School of Business and Management is keen to give its students as many opportunities as possible. We work hard to raise aspirations and expand the recruitment of students/international students who are currently under-represented in higher education. We are looking for Undergrad, Postgrad/ PhD students to help with events as well as ad-hoc administrative jobs to help run the school sufficiently.
As a Student Ambassador, you can gain experience working at our internal and external events, such as Open Days, academic conferences, seminars, and socials. You will also work with young people on school visits, do campus tours, facilitate workshops, and more. There are also opportunities to facilitate other activities around the university.
Training will be provided, and you will gain valuable skills in planning events and creating content for our social platforms. If applied to your CV, this experience will also benefit job searching in the future. Networking with external clients, speakers, and academics is also a key benefit.
Student Ambassadors are paid £14.52 per hour and have shift opportunities on an ad-hoc basis. Before applying, please read the attached job description thoroughly.
HOW TO APPLY
You will need to submit 3 things. Please see the information below:
- Please submit a 1-minute video to (sbm-events@qmul.ac.uk ) explaining the following:
1. Introduction to yourself - Name / Course / Year / A little about yourself
2. What relevant experience you have relating to 3 essential/desirable person specification points (within the experience and skills sections of the job description). You may take about any other skills you have which may be beneficial.
3. Why you would like to join the SBM Student Ambassador team
NOTE: You may be as creative as you like. If you find that the video is too large to submit via email, please send via Teams to Nicole Ramdeen. You will need to state that this is what you have done in your email
- You will also need to submit a short paragraph (no more than 250 words) on either of the below questions, explaining a time when:
- you had to take on a leadership role you hadn’t been fully trained for.
- you faced a challenging situation at work
- you endured the biggest change you’ve had to deal with? How did you adapt to that change?
- What’s the most interesting thing about you that’s not on your CV/resume?
- Complete the SBM Student Ambassador form via the link (https://forms.office.com/e/BRLPdhzCDj)
All submissions need to be sent by Thursday 3 October 2024 by 16:00. Any submissions after this time will not be included in the shortlisting.
Successful applications will be notified on Wednesday 9 October and invited for an in person interview shortly after. The interviews will commence on Tuesday, 15 October, and Wednesday, 16 October (13:00-15:00) or (16:00 -18:00). Details will be sent to those selected.
If there are any questions, please email sbm-events@qmul.ac.uk
Thank
you and good luck 😊
