Hourly Pay Rate: £10.15 hourly pay + £1.22 per hour holiday pay

An exciting paid opportunity has arisen to work for the university as a Peer Mentor. The role is to work within the Student Services’ Learning Communities to provide new students with a friendly and professional peer-to-peer support programme. Being a peer mentor is a key role within the University and it gives you the chance to act as a role model and an ambassador for our University. Read more and Apply here: Student Services Peer Mentor – Manchester Metropolitan University (mmu.ac.uk)

Information about role:

The role of a Peer Mentor is to work within the Student Services’ Learning Communities team to provide new commuter students with a friendly and professional peer-to-peer support programme. This will begin via telephone/MS Teams calls with students before they start at university in order to answer any queries they have,  and to alleviate any of their anxieties.  A peer mentor will help new students settle into University life, build friendships, help foster a sense of belonging, support engagement with campus activities and be a key point of contact for any concerns or queries a new student may have.  Typical activities a peer mentor will undertake in the first semester include:

• Engaging with students prior to arrival, answering questions and helping them to prepare for arrival and engage with induction.
• Assisting students with identifying relevant support services as required during the Induction period and general transition to university during the first semester
• Attending information sharing ‘events’, e.g. induction, on-line events, stalls and information fayres
• Delivering group activity to develop community and facilitate engagement e.g. quiz, activities, tours 
• With the approval of the Learning Communities Team, providing 1 to 1 mentoring to students where this is identified as a need.
• Working on other initiatives during the year. These may include: Support with community building initiatives; Working at Options Fair(s); Transition events for students.
• Working in a cooperative manner with the Learning Communities PALS team and faculty- based Student Experience Officers
• Assist with and deliver digital communications to raise awareness of wellbeing and study support available at the University
• Contributing to the delivery of specific wellbeing activities and campaigns alongside University staff
• Providing time limited support to individual students as referred by the PALS team