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Library Student Partners
Job Description
The Library's Academic Skills Centre is seeking enthusiastic and committed students to join our team as Library Student Partners. Drawing on your awareness of the challenges and barriers students may face while transitioning through university, you will play a key role on the team by helping to identify and develop academic skills programmes that support students with their studies. Additionally, you will take part in participatory research, working with the Academic Skills team as research partners throughout the full lifecycle of research projects. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the support provided to students while gaining valuable skills in research, teamwork, and project development.
Job Purpose
As a Library Student Partner, you will work independently and as a team to develop online resources, workshops, or other projects that aim to help students be successful at university. The position reports to the Transition Programmes and PASS Support Officer and will work closely with Academic Skills Centre colleagues and fellow Library Student Partners.
We are looking to recruit three Library Student Partners from February 2025 until the end of May 2025, working 4 hours per week, paying 15.82 plus holiday pay. There may be opportunities for selected candidates to extend their contracts beyond this period.
Key Duties
Programme Development:
- Identify areas within the Academic Skills Centre where student support could be improved, collaborating with other Library Student Partners to brainstorm new or enhanced initiatives that support students? needs.
- Work independently and as part of a team to design and implement new or enhanced initiatives.
- Support the design and delivery of the Get Ahead programme for prospective first-year students.
Participatory Research:
- Act as a research partner by engaging in all stages of research projects, from planning, reviewing the literature and data collection to report writing.
- Collaborate with Academic Skills Centre colleagues to ensure research outcomes align with student needs and priorities.
Teamwork and Communication:
- Participate actively in regular meetings with the Transition Programmes and PASS Support Officer and other Library Student Partners.
- Communicate effectively and professionally with colleagues across the university to promote programmes and achieve project goals.
- Maintain open communication with your team, updating them on project progress and flagging any challenges or delays.
- Respond promptly to emails and other communications.
General Responsibilities:
- Represent Queen Mary in a professional, competent, and enthusiastic manner when engaging with students and staff.
- Meet deadlines and manage your workload alongside your academic commitments.
- Attend Library Student Partner and participatory research training sessions.
- Contribute to the Library's Transition Programmes evaluation activities and additional projects as required.
- Proactively identify challenges within initiatives and work collaboratively to develop solutions.
Qualifications
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Skills
Required
- Currently enrolled in an undergraduate programme at Queen Mary.
- Achieved 70% or higher in at least one assignment or exam within the last academic year.
- Awareness of the challenges and barriers students may face while studying at university.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.
- Articulate, reassuring, and clear when speaking with others.
- Effective time management, balancing the role's responsibilities with academic demands.
- Capable of engaging with colleagues across the university to promote and support the programme.
- Flexible and open to taking on a variety of tasks, including contributing to research and participating in events.
- Enthusiastic about supporting other students and improving the student experience.
- Dedicated, reliable, and punctual.
- The ability to meet UK right to work requirements.
Desirable
- Previous experience in a leadership role, such as a course representative, PASS leader, mentor, or peer-led team learning (PLTL) participant.
- Experience working in a team setting.
- Decision-making skills to ensure the successful implementation of projects are desirable.
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THIS ROLE IS NOT SUITABLE FOR CURRENT STUDENTS. Please note that start dates are prospective and subject to change depending on recruitment timeline.
To provide a high level of service to both internal and external customers dealing with a wide range of post-award administration duties. To monitor income and expenditure transactions in order to achieve accuracy of data paramount to providing accurate management information to departments and senior officers. To produce invoices and claims in a timely manner to a wide variety of Research sponsors e.g. Charities, Industry, Government and Research Councils to meet pre-determined deadlines to avoid financial sanctions.
To carry out responsibilities with due regard to the College?s Equal Opportunities & Health & Safety Policies.
To undertake any other duties as may be reasonable expected by the line manager of Head of Department.
Main duties and responsibilities
- To support the Financial Compliance & Management Officers with the daily running of the section, ensuring that an efficient service to both internal and external customers is maintained. Duties will involve a diverse range of activities dealing with specific sponsor types e.g. Charities, Research Councils, Industry and Government Offices.
- The preparation of claims and invoices in a frequency determined by the sponsor, ensuring accuracy of information and reconciling the total value of the claim to the general ledger and making any necessary adjustments in agreement with other central service sections and academic departments.
- Responsible for ensuring the daily milestone tasks are completed on Worktribe in order of priority to meet the needs of the sponsor. The efficient timing of invoice and claim submissions is essential to facilitate the College?s cash flow.
- The continuous process of checking the information held in Agresso in order to ensure the accuracy of the data produced, for both routine and management information reports which are regularly presented to academics, Heads of Department, Senior Officers, and the relevant committees.
- To produce routine reports as required, from the general ledger and PCB modules in Agresso, for data analysis and the compilation of information to meet departmental and external sponsor requirements.
- Responsible for dealing with customer enquiries to the Helpdesk promptly to ensure a quick response time and efficient levels of service.
- To initiate and enter journals onto Agresso relating to internal expenditure transfers and salary re-charges, paying careful attention to accuracy to avoid the misrepresentation of data.
- To work closely with the Finance Department to ensure accuracy of research grant expenditure and liaison with the Credit Control Section to assist with the collection of income on research grants and contracts.
- Ensuring that regular budget/expenditure reports are sent to departments in a timely manner. Monitoring budget control and alerting the relevant departmental administrators and grant holders to significant variances for appropriate action.
- Maintaining document repository on Worktribe to satisfy both internal and external audit requirements, liaising with departments where necessary to complete this process
Qualifications
GCE or equivalent in Maths and English
Skills
| AAT or relevant experience |
| Experience/Knowledge |
| Knowledge of good accountancy practice |
| Excellent written and oral communication skills |
| Solid account office experience |
| Numerate skills to appropriate level |
| Knowledge of computerised finance systems |
| Experience of excel and word |
| Experience of working with all levels of staff including senior officers |
| Skills/Abilities |
| Ability to work under pressure and to meet predetermined deadlines |
| Ability to work on own initiative in a challenging environment |
| Ability to liaise credibly and articulately with colleagues at all levels including Sponsors, Funders and Sr. Management. |
| Ability to build and maintain close working relationships with other administration offices and departmental Research Manager, including Human Resources, Procurement, finance and service departments within QMUL and Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Other |
| Flexible and professional approach to work |
| *The ability to meet UK ?right to work? requirements. |
COMPASS-MS Therapist
Qualifications
MSc in Health Psychology
Skills
Experience in CBT therapy
Library Student Ambassadors - six roles available to work 15 hours between February and June 2025
We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated students - at all levels- to become Library Student Ambassadors to help improve the student experience in the Library. We want to increase the student voice and focus on library developments and improvements that are most important to students. We need you to tell us!
Library Student Ambassadors will be actively involved in a number of library projects, take part in user experience research or focus groups, attend some Library Working Group meeting, and take forward suggestions for improving and developing library services and help promote library services and resources.
The hours will be worked between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday and we will try to be flexible around your studies and other commitments. Some weeks it will be 2 or 3 hours and other weeks, no hours - making a total of 15 hours worked between Feb and June 2025
Qualifications
Current London Met student
Skills
Excellent communication skills in order to act as a sounding board for ideas, talk to other students, and give suggestions for improvements in Library Services and Special Collections
How to apply - PLEASE send letter of interest
Email Laura Simmons (l.simmons@londonmet.ac.uk), Head of Library Operations, with heading LIBRARY STUDENT AMBASSADOR detailing your course and School and what year you are in and no more than 300 words outlining why you think you would make a good Library Student Ambassador in terms of your skills and interests and a suggestion of one thing you would like to see improved or developed in the library either online or in the physical library. Thank you!
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