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The Student Ambassador Programme

Are you ready to share your Richmond American University London perspective with our community? Look no further—You could be our next Student or Digital Ambassador!

Become an Event Experience Ambassador and embark on a rewarding journey where you earn while you learn, gain invaluable work experience, develop essential skills, and expand your network for the future. You’ll collaborate with individuals from diverse backgrounds, ages, and nationalities, honing your communication and team-building abilities along the way. Recruiting passionate students at the start of each academic year, the Student Ambassador program offers opportunities to engage in various on-campus and London-based events, working alongside peers and staff members.

Meanwhile, our Content Production Ambassadors initiative provides a platform to unleash your creativity, acquire work experience, share your passions, and illustrate what it means to be a #RichmondUniLdn student. Whether you’re comfortable in front of the camera or prefer working behind the scenes, your social media prowess will shine through in numerous capacities.

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What does an Event Experience Ambassador do?

Our Student Ambassadors are passionate about RAUL and eager to share the best RAUL experiences with prospective students, overseas visitors, and school leavers. As a Student Ambassador, you will:

  • Deliver campus tours
  • Help with open days and other on-campus events
  • Give presentations in schools and colleges
  • Represent RAUL at Higher Education fairs
  • Participate in online web chats with prospective students
  • Make calls to RAUL applicants

What are the benefits of being a Student Ambassador?

Our Student Ambassadors meet monthly to discuss ideas, meet other ambassadors, and learn new skills. In this role, you will also:

  • Connect with the RAUL community of students, alumni, academics, external guest speakers, and RAUL stakeholders
  • Meet people across campus and beyond and develop your networking skills
  • Get valuable work experience that will help make your CV stand out
  • Develop a range of transferable skills, including communication, organisation and time management skills, confidence, and the ability to multitask
  • Gain professional references for future employment

Essential Requirements for our Student Ambassadors

To be a Student Ambassador, you must be a current undergraduate or postgraduate RAUL student. Other requirements include:

  • Demonstrating an understanding of equality and diversity and willingness to show commitment to promoting equality of opportunity in all aspects of your work
  • Well-developed communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Possess good time-management skills and reliability
  • Be adaptable, flexible, and proactive
  • Having an interest in your degree subject and the ability to enthuse students to further their education
  • Able to represent the University professionally and positively regarding presentation and conduct
  • Great at thinking on your feet and using your initiative, while being solution focused

What does a Content Production Ambassador do?

As a Digital Ambassador, you’ll be an integral part of our Marketing, Recruitment, and Communications team. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Providing social media coverage for RAUL events—such as orientation, open day, public lectures, clubs events, Student Affairs events, and graduation
  • Sharing student stories via our digital channels and the ‘I am Richmond’ blog
  • Promoting RAUL across various social media channels through microblogging, student takeovers, and strategic messaging
  • Interviewing students and academics for their #RichmondUniLdn perspective
  • Identifying and recommending content and trends for RAUL’s digital channels

What are the benefits of being a Digital Ambassador?

Our Digital Ambassadors meet once a month for workshops, brainstorming, and briefing sessions. In this role, you will also:

  • Connect with a diverse community of students, alumni, academics, and stakeholders
  • Expand your network across campus and beyond
  • Gain invaluable work experience to enhance your CV
  • Develop a diverse skill set, including communication, organization, and time management
  • Obtain professional references for future endeavors

Essential Requirements for our Digital Ambassadors

To be a Digital Ambassador, you must be a current undergraduate or postgraduate RAUL student.

If you are part of our alumni community and have an idea for our social channels, please reach out to [email protected]

Other requirements include:

  • Be a confident social media user
  • Experience or interest in photography, creative writing, and/or video production
  • Strong writing and editing skills in English
  • Excellent time management and reliability
  • Proactive, adaptable, and flexible mindset
  • Commitment to delivering exceptional customer service
  • Ability to represent the university professionally and positively

Student Standing and Right to Work checks

We expect student ambassadors to be in good academic standing and comply with student terms and conditions. There are no minimum GPA requirements, but we would advise students on academic probation to prioritize their study first. 

Payment and Hours

We are looking for digital ambassadors to work on an ad-hoc basis, with no fixed hours but paid as and when they complete work. For events, ambassadors are paid for the duration of the event and for any preparatory work as needed. This can be tied to 20 hours a week max (according to student visa regulations) alongside any other work the student does. Some evening and weekend work may be required to attend events.  This is a paid role on an hourly basis:

Age 20 and under: £10.18 per hour 

Age 21 and over: £12.21 per hour 

How To Apply

 Please note the deadline to apply is 8th December 2025.

  1. Complete a short form online to express your interest and briefly tell us what you would most like to benefit from this work
  2. We will email you to let you know if you have been shortlisted for an interview with one of our team members, that you’ll be working with.
  3. If selected, we will then conduct a student status check with Student Affairs and a right to work check with HR
  4. If the checks are successful, we’ll contact you by email to invite you to the onboarding meeting, to be held on campus in January, for which you will be paid to attend.

If you have any questions about the Content Production role, please contact [email protected], and any questions about the Event Experience role, [email protected].