Climate and Sustainability Curriculum Intern - Undergraduate

UE03 £20,863 - £22,197 Per Annum

Corporate Services Group/Strategic Change Unit

Fixed Term Contract, 26 June 2023- 8 September 2023

Full time (35 hours per week)

We are looking for students, over a ten-week internship, to help deliver a suite of resources to support educators across the University to embed climate and sustainability in their academic practice. You will be working with a range of professionals in this space and have agency to develop employability skills.

The Opportunity:

Hosted by the Department of Social Responsibility and sponsored by the Curriculum transformation project, the climate and sustainability curriculum interns will help to deliver suggestions from the Climate and Environmental Sustainability in Curriculum working group in relation to the curriculum transformation project.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Ability to consolidate and summarise complex information.
• Excellent skills in writing and communicating.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills, and an ability to strike a good rapport with a range of educators.
• Ability to work independently (and remotely) on tasks with minimal supervision.
• Ability to create engaging resources to meet end users needs.
  

As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page (opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

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. Further information about the Edinburgh Award can be found our Edinburgh Award homepage (opens new browser window).

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.

Interviews will be held week commencing 12 June 2023.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work web pages (opens new browser tab) .

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