Postgraduate Course Ambassador

Only for current MDX Postgraduate students

Promoting Middlesex University to prospective PG students throughout their journey to PG study, providing in-depth insight into the students’programme /subject of interest and what it’s like to be a PG student at Middlesex. Raising awareness of PG study, driving PG applications, encouraging and inspiring prospective PG students to choose Middlesex and to enroll with us.

Duties and responsibilities
As a Postgraduate (PG) Course Ambassador at Middlesex, you will:

• Participate in PG Open Evening, talk to prospective students, answer questions regarding course, subject area, timetabling and act as their point of contact for student life questions at theevent.
• Take part in additional PG student recruitment, conversion and student engagement events, acting as students’ point of contact throughout the event.
• Personally, conduct all areas of a PG telephone campaign relating to a course or cluster area, whether this be for event bookings, accepting an offer to study with us or just to keep warm.
• Attend subject specific PG fairs to give a student voice, where applicable.
• Write regular blog posts, talking about what has happened to you each week as a PG student at Middlesex, offering deep insight into the course content and your student experience.
• Post on social media, as required, encouraging prospects to engage and ask questions and find out about upcoming events and other activities or key points of the student journey.
• Be involved in the production of CRM emails which will sit within the PG Enquirer and Applicant CRM streams. This may include videos, photos, quotes and written copy and will be produced throughout the scheme.
• Contribution to web pages in a similar manner to CRM.
• Contribute to online chats and answer questions on PG specific forums, where applicable.
• Attend compulsory training sessions for specialised events.
• Any such other duties required by Middlesex University which are consistent with the .

Flex your creative muscles

• Be part of fun photoshoot sessions with your fellow students or help produce photographs to support content across the Marketing and Recruitment initiatives.
• Help produce video content, both of yourself and with other Course Ambassadors, for use on university webpages and in CRM (marketing emails).
• Write blog posts, as required, on various activities relating to your experiences of Middlesex University, living in London, your course and your student lifestyle.
• Post on social media as required, encouraging prospects to engage online and attend events.
• Provide quotes, testimonials and other written copy to be used across recruitment activities.

Reach out to prospective students and other relevant duties

• Call prospective students who are interested in studying your subject. This may be to encourage to events or to answer questions they may have about studying at MDX.
• Respond to questions from students through the Unibuddy online chat platform.
• Attend compulsory training sessions for specialised events.
• Any such other duties required by Middlesex University which are consistent with the .

Skills and experience
Selection Criteria:

Essential:

• Current PG students, enrolled at the university for the duration of the contract.
• Ability to confidently and positively promote your course/subject area and your PG student
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Evidence of strong self-motivation and ability to meet agreed objectives on own initiative.
• Evidence of effective time-management skills and the ability to prioritise workload.
• Good knowledge of the UK Further / Higher Education environment.

Desirable:

• Involvement in Middlesex University Students’ Union, Societies or Sports.
• Good relationships with Academic Staff from your subject area.
• Knowledge of student services and facilities available at Middlesex University.
• Experience in giving advice/guidance about Higher Education.
• Experience of working as a student/course ambassador previously.

Location
Hendon Campus

Benefits

Pay Rate: £17.20 p/h + holiday pay

Please do not apply if your course is not on this list as we have already recruited to all other areas. You can only apply for the course area that you actually study in, under the Cluster column. If you believe your course of study is missing from one of the sections that are on this list,please contact [email protected] to check before applying.

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