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Job Description
POST/JOB TITLE: Student Assistant (Spring Careers Fair)
SCHOOL/DEPT: Careers, Employability & Skills
NO. OF HOURS IF PT: 11 hours during term time, specific to event (6th/7th February 2024) 6th February - 1.00pm to 4.00pm for briefing and set up & 7th February 9.00am - 5.00pm (Spring Fair Day) Must be available on specified dates/times
JOB PURPOSE:
To support the successful delivery of our Spring Careers Fair within the University, undertaking promotional and logistical event tasks, with focus on providing an excellent Fair experience for students and employers.
MAJOR DUTIES:
Fair Event Delivery
- Work as part of a team to ensure the successful and smooth delivery of our Spring Careers Fair on Wednesday 7th February 2024 (set up and briefing on Tuesday 6th February 2024)
- Provide consistent and high level of customer service at central careers fairs, to include:
- Welcoming exhibitors (including employers), staff and students on campus;
- Acting as a point of contact and a source of information and guidance;
- Registering students;
- Guiding exhibitors according to designated seating or floorplans;
- Providing directional support as required.
- Accurately capture required Fair information, e.g. scanning student attendance, recording feedback and providing update to supervisors as required.
- Undertake event set up and tear down tasks as allocated, to include:
- Event staging, dressing of exhibitor stalls and positioning of branding collateral at Fair venues
- Recording and storing of Fair collateral post event
- Undertake any administrative duties in support of careers fairs, e.g.:
- Preparing exhibitor welcome packs and other fair paper
Event Briefing and Training
- Undertake and fully participate in all relevant event training, as required.
- Attend all individual fair briefing sessions, set-up and tear-up for Fairs, as directed.
- Key dates where availability is required are Tuesday 6th February 2024 (1.00pm – 4.00pm) and Wednesday 7th February 2024 (9.00am – 5.00pm)
- Act as an ambassador and representative of the University at all times when undertaking duties.
- Carry out any other duties which are appropriate to the post as may be reasonably requested by a Supervisor.
Qualifications
n/a
Skills
Experience / Skills Required:
- Previous experience of working in a customer facing environment (face-to-face contact) e.g. could include event venues, bars, clubs or restaurants, this is preferred but not essential
- Proven ability to work as part of a team and make a positive and constructive contribution
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to proactively engage others in promotion of key messages and deal with face-to-face enquiries in a confident, courteous, patient, and professional manner
- Ability to use initiative and be proactive
- Provide a high level of customer care
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About the event:
Techstars Startup Weekend is a three-day programme where aspiring entrepreneurs can experience startup life. It’s taken place in hundreds of cities around the world, and now it’s coming to Belfast! Over 400,000 people have participated in Startup Weekends in 150 countries, and the Startup Weekend methodology has successfully created thousands of companies!
Tasks will include:
- Welcoming participants
- Liaising with caterers on site
- Supporting with room set up
- Liaising with mentors, speakers and judges
- Helping set up technology
- Answering queries
- Guiding participants to the right rooms etc
- Answering questions
- And any other tasks that might come up
Qualifications
There are no qualifications required of the role
Skills
There is very little experience required for this role. We are looking for people who are confident in communicating with others, who are relatively organised and an interest in the Start-Up world is a bonus!
Queen’s University School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EEECS) require a student to provide IT Support assistance. The IT Support Assistant posts is based at Computer Science Building (CSB), 18 Malone Road, Belfast.
The post is available from 05 August 2024 to 20 December 2024 in the first instance and may be extended, working up to 16 hours per week.
Main duties associated with this post are:
- Provide evening technical support cover on-site in Computer Science Building.
- Provide user support on-site.
- Respond to user requests via the school helpdesk.
- Software installation and configuration.
- Operating system image deployment.
- Troubleshooting software installations.
- IT record keeping and asset management.
- Support users both onsite and users working remotely.
- Provide IT technical support for events.
- PC hardware maintenance and upgrades.
- Automation using SharePoint Online and MS Office 365 low-code approach.
- Must be able to work flexibly and cover evening hours required to deliver our evening rota.
- Lifting and moving of equipment e.g., system units, computer monitors and printers.
- Carry out any other duties which are appropriate to the post as may be reasonably requested by the supervisor.
Qualifications
Currently registered students at Queen’s University, Belfast entering final year of an Undergraduate course of study in MEng/BSc Computer Science, MEng/BEng Software Engineering/Software and Electronic Systems Engineering, BSc Computing and Information Technology/Business Information Technology.
Skills
- Currently registered students at Queen’s University, Belfast entering final year of an Undergraduate course of study in MEng/BSc Computer Science, MEng/BEng Software Engineering/Software and Electronic Systems Engineering, BSc Computing and Information Technology/Business Information Technology.
- Have one year work experience in a technical support role or have successfully completed a year out placement in a technical support role.
- 50% average to date in all modules taken to date.
- All students for whom English is not their first language must have achieved a minimum pass mark of 7.0 in the writing and speaking band of IELTS (International English Language Test Score) or equivalent. Please note a copy of your IELTS results will be requested by email to your QUB email address following submission of your application).
- Understand Windows Networked environment and know how to configure network settings on a windows machine.
- Experience of upgrading or maintaining PC hardware.
- Experience of installing software or operating systems.
- Proven basic knowledge of regulations and procedures, including H&S requirements.
Desirable Criteria:
- At least 60% average to date in modules taken.
- Exposure to Linux and Linux network configuration.
- Familiarity with University support systems including helpdesks and service desk software
POST: AHSS Student Skills Assisant x 12 (Specialists in Digital, Academic, Employability/Transversal skills)
SCHOOL/DEPT: AHSS Faculty Office
DURATION: Fixed Term until 30th June 2025 (with the possibility of contract extension through to August 2025)
WAGE: £19.23 per hour (Salary may increase as of August 2024 but will be commensurate with Queen's University's Agenda for Change)
CLOSING DATE: Midnight on Sunday16th June 2024
EXPECTED INTERVIEW DATES: Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th June 2024
NO. OF HOURS PER WEEK: Minimum of 8 hours per week (with the possibility of 10/week)
JOB TITLE: AHSS Student Skills Assisant
QUESTION? Informal queries can be directed to Aileen Carson (Employability and Skills Development Officer with AHSS) a.carson@qub.ac.uk.
JOB SUMMARY:
We are looking for 12 exceptional students to join our Student Skills Development Team in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS). As part of a dedicated team of Student Assistants, you'll provide peer-to-peer support and training for both Undergraduate and Postgraduate students, and to promote the student skills agenda.
The team will be made up of Digital (x4), Academic (x4) and Employability/Transversal (x4) assistants* to form the ‘Student Skills Development Team’ who will then be split into 3 sub-teams supporting either Undergraduate (UG), Post Graduate Taught (PGT), or Post Graduate Research (PGR) students across the faculty. Your responsibilities will include organising events, delivering training, offering support through 1-2-1s and group drop-in sessions, and creating engaging learning guides in written and video formats. Additionally, as a member to the Student Skills Development Team, you will actively represent the student voice in important committees and working groups, contributing to decisions that shape the future of student skills development within the AHSS Faculty and the wider university. See a summary of the overall team breakdown below:
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