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Job details
Job title: Student Success Peer Mentor
Job reference: REQ241121
Date posted: 16/12/2024
Application closing date: 26/01/2025
Location: Loughborough
Package: £13.35 per hour
Job description:
Open to final year undergraduate Loughborough University students who identify as black African, black Caribbean, South Asian Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi. This role has been created as a Positive Action initiative (Section 158, Equality Act 2010) to address the gap in placement progression and degree attainment between black, South Asian and white students at Loughborough University and is permitted under Schedule 9, part 1 of the Equality Act 2010.
Applicants must be from the schools of Architecture, Building, Civil Engineer (ABCE) or Wolfson Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing Engineering (WMEME) or Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical, Material Engineering (AACME) or School of Design and Creative Arts (SDCA) or School of Science (preferably on a Computer Science undergraduate degree course).
Part time (term time only, casual basis) commencing February 2025 to April 2025.
Get Ahead Together is a peer mentoring scheme designed to help new Loughborough students settle in, manage the transition to studying at a university and become part of a community. The programme is being extended as a new pilot for 2024-25 to support some Part B students who are seeking a placement by offering them advice, signposting to support available and sharing mentor experiences. This is a unique opportunity for creative and innovative individuals who are motivated to want to make a difference to their peers’ time at university.
You will be expected to work most Wednesdays and some other weekdays as needed. A compulsory training session will be held on 17th February 2025. You will be paid for your attendance at this.
For informal enquiries about this role please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team - 01509 22 2078, future.talent@mailbox.lboro.ac.uk
Application closing date: Sunday 26th January 2025
Interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams on: 3rd-5th February 2025
For more information refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.
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