Placement Accessibility Intern - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

UE03 £21,978 to £22,681 per annum (A revised salary range for this grade of £22,214 to £24,248 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024)

College of Science and Engineering, School of Engineering

Full Time 35 hours per week, however, we are open to considering part-time (Minimum 28 hours)

Contract type - Fixed Term (12 weeks, commencing 3rd June 2024)
**Location of internship - remote working with some visits to campus as required

**The Opportunity: As Placement accessibility intern you will be a student interested in accessibility and learning through work experience. You will be willing to investigate gaps in placement accessibility and find action-based recommendations to help address these gaps.

You will spend the summer identifying barriers to placement opportunities and look at how look at how these barriers affects student decision making when it comes to placements.

You will look at how we can help address those gaps through the design and roll out of a survey.

If you are passionate about making opportunities accessible to a larger and more diverse group of students, enjoy research and talking to people, get in touch.

This internship is part of the on Campus programme which is run by the Careers Service in collaboration with University departments and Schools.

It offers exclusive summer internships at the University over the summer for 2nd year to penultimate-year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh based in the UK.

You cannot take part if you are a visiting student, or you have already taken part in the programme before.

Expected commencement date
:
June 3rd week internship)
This post is advertised as full-time (35 hours per week), however, we are open to considering part-time (Minimum 28 hours)

on Campus is run by the Careers Service in collaboration with University departments and Schools.

It offers exclusive summer internships at the University over the summer for 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh.

based in the UK.

You cannot take part if you are a visiting student, or you have already taken part in the programme before.

Further information about on Campus can be found on our
on campus webpages (opens new browser tab).

Your skills and attributes for success:

Ability to actively listen to people's viewpoints and report them with accuracy and synthesis
Sensitivity and awareness of the diversity of our student cohort.
Experience of analysis of quantitative and qualitative information
Reliable with excellent timemanagement and organisational skills
IT skills eg. Microsoft Office suite, Excel etc

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**As a valued member of our team you can expect: - An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.

To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, familyfriendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our
staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.

We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK.

Further information is available on our
right to work webpages (opens new browser tab)

Programme Information
on Campus is run by the Careers Service in collaboration with University departments and Schools.

It offers exclusive summer internships at the University over the summer for 2nd year to penultimate year undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh.

As well as great work experience, the Careers Service provides supporting resources, this is combined with a framework to support the development of participants' employability and self-reflection with an Edinburgh Award as part of the internship.

Key dates to note
Interviews will be held between the 1 st and 19 th April.