Caledonian Club Undergraduate Student Mentor Job Description ...

Caledonian Club Undergraduate Student Mentor Job Description
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Caledonian Club
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Student Mentor
Caledonian Club Staff
£7.00 per hour
caledonianclub@gcu.ac.uk
Please complete the student mentor application form, which is
available to download from our website:
www.gcu.ac.uk/caledonianclub/mentors/join/
You can submit your application to the Caledonian Club at our
open day on Wednesday 21 st September from 1:30‐4:30pm in
CPD 6/7 or
You can email your completed form to:
caledonianclub@gcu.ac.uk quoting ‘Student Mentor Application’
in the email subject field.
Please note that the closing date for receipt of applications is
Thursday 22 nd September.
To act as a role model and assist with the delivery of Club activities.
The Caledonian Club is an educationally based project with a longterm
vision to facilitate true social change in the communities
Glasgow Caledonian University serves. We work with young people,
from nursery age through all school stages and their families to raise
the life‐long learning aspirations of our members and equip them
with key life skills. We achieve this by offering targeted nursery,
primary and secondary schools a linked set of activities delivered by
staff and students from GCU.
Working as a Student Mentor will offer you first and foremost the
opportunity to earn money in a part‐time job with the flexibility to fit
around your studies. However, it will also allow you to fulfil a role as
an active citizen, develop skills to improve your future employment
prospects and meet and work with other GCU students from a
variety of disciplines. You will also be eligible to enrol on GCU’s
Student Leaders Programme.

Person Specification
Education • Students must be registered on an undergraduate GCU programme.
Experience • Experience of working with young people is advantageous, however
full training is given prior to participation.
• We aim to recruit students from a wide variety of entry routes into
Higher Education and are particularly (though not exclusively) keen
to recruit mentors either from GOALS/FOCUS West schools or from
our own Caledonian Club schools, so they can return to their former
school as role models. The Caledonian Club secondary schools are:
All Saints Secondary, Drumchapel High, Springburn Academy, St
Margaret Mary’s Secondary and Whitehill Secondary.
Knowledge • Knowledge of the GCU campus is essential.
• Appreciation of widening access initiatives is expected.
• Knowledge of the Scottish education system would be
advantageous.
• We aim to recruit students from a variety of schools and
departments across the University, who can apply their knowledge
to the activities of the Caledonian Club and act as ambassadors for
GCU. In addition to our general mentors, we are also interested in
students with expertise in animation, dietetics, music, drama or art,
so please make this clear on your application if you have any of
these additional skills.
Skills, Abilities
&Competencies
Additional
Requirements
Appointment
• Possess a genuine interest in making a positive contribution to the
lives of young people and can act as a role model for them.
• Reliable and motivated.
• Sociable and enthusiastic.
• Good organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to work as a member of a team.
• Ability to communicate with a variety of people of all ages.
• Students should have access to the internet, an e‐mail address and
ideally a mobile phone, in order to sign up to activities and keep in
touch with the Caledonian Club office and other students.
• Students should be prepared to travel to local schools alongside
Caledonian Club staff. Students who have their own car can claim
back mileage if they use it to transport other staff and mentors to
Caledonian Club activities, but must have the appropriate business
insurance.
If successful at group interview stage, any appointment is subject to
receipt of satisfactory references and a PVG member check. In addition,
all students must participate in skills training for the various elements of
the programme and associated focus groups to enable the Caledonian
Club to grow and develop.

Summary of Caledonian Club Core Activities
As a Student Mentor, you will be given the opportunity to be trained and take part in some
or all of the following activities alongside Club staff and subject experts.
Nursery Campus
Visit Project
Primary 2 Digital
Book Project
Primary 5 ‘Uni
Day’ Animation
Project
S2 ‘Think Ahead’
Project
S6 ‘Professor’s
Challenge’
Project
S6 Shadowing
Project
Other Activities
Mentors work with pupils in their pre‐school nursery year to help them
understand where they are in their educational journey by leading them
through activities relevant to their age and stage. This visit takes place
over half a day at GCU and parents are invited to come along. Through
participation, pupils are inducted into the Club.
Mentors work with pupils in school for half a day over a four week
period to create the story, art work and narration of a digital and print
book in our ‘Molly and Cally’ adventure series. The project culminates in
a showcase for pupils, parents and teachers the following month.
Mentors work with groups of pupils in school and on campus on a quiz
to learn about university and drama and animation workshops based on
a particular theme, which links into the school curriculum. Students
assist pupils in creating stop‐motion animations, which are screened a
few weeks later to pupils and their families.
Mentors work with groups of pupils in school and on campus to assist
them with their SQA options and choices through various workshops
and challenges. This projects aims to give pupils a better understanding
of how their school subjects link practically to future study and careers
and raises their aspirations.
Mentors are assigned a group of pupils to work with over a half day in
school and two days at GCU. Students aid pupils in completing a real
life business marketing challenge by working through the various stages
of the brief and giving them the confidence to pitch their ideas to a
panel of experts.
Mentors work with those pupils who took part on the S6 challenge but
who are now considering Higher Education when they leave school.
They take them to first year classes in a subject they are interested in to
help them confirm their intention to apply for a specific course.
Mentors may have the opportunity to take part in other Club activities
such as our nursery nutrition project, P2 music project, S6 mentoring
and community engagement activities and the promotion of the Club
within and outside the university.