Mentor Recruitment Officer

Do you want to join a fast-paced, international, student-led, social impact charity? Are you looking for meaningful voluntary experience and a community of like-minded, ambitious people?

We are looking for a friendly, organised, and hard-working person who studies or has studied a graduate degree at one of our target UK, US, or EU universities to help train our inspirational mentors!

You will be working closely with Taran – our Global Director of Mentorship Programs and Campus Operations.

Responsibilities include:

  • Recruiting enough mentors so that every mentee on our mentorship programs is paired with a mentor.

  • Actively reaching out to potential mentors using our Project Access social media accounts (Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok etc.), and via email.

  • Targeting individuals at our target universities who could be great mentors, and contacting university societies and universities themselves.

  • Using our internal data dashboard to identify our most urgent mentor needs according to university and degree subject, and prioritising recruitment activities accordingly.

    The ideal applicant is...

  • [Ideal but not essential] Studying, or has studied, for a degree in one of our target universities in the UK (Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial College London, UCL, LSE, King’s College London, Warwick, Durham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds), the US (Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, UPenn, Brown, NYU, Princeton, Dartmouth, UCLA, UC Berkeley), or the EU (Trinity College Dublin, Sciences Po, ETH Zurich, Bocconi, Copenhagen Business School, University of Amsterdam, Copenhagen Business School).

  • Passionate about our mission to help underrepresented students get into their dream universities – you efforts will be incredibly helpful in ensuring our mentees have the mentorship journey their deserve at Project Access.

    You will get...

  • The chance to improve your written communication and strategy skills.

  • Access to a great community of talented and ambitious students.

  • To build a direct relationship with the mentors that power our Project Access mentorship programs!

    The position is an unpaid, volunteer role that will require 3-5 hours of work per week, with flexibility during busy times of year (e.g. during exams).

    If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with Taran, our Global Director of Mentorship Programmes and Campus Operations (taran.glasson@projectaccess.org).