Student ambassadors with focus on Chinese social media

The University of Gothenburg tackles society’s challenges with diverse knowledge. 56 000 students and 6 600 employees make the university a large and inspiring place to work and study. Strong research and attractive study programmes attract scientists and students from around the world. With new knowledge and new perspectives, the University contributes to a better future.The University of Gothenburg aims to be an international institution that attracts international students to its courses. Today we have around 80 Master's programmes and a couple of Bachelor's programmes in English that are open to international applicants. To communicate with prospective students, we use student ambassadors – already enrolled students who can represent the University and share their experience of what it is like to be a student at the University of Gothenburg.  

As part of our international outreach, we are active on a variety of Chinese social media platforms, on which our student ambassadors play a key role in representing the University to prospective students from China. 

Are you an international student at the University of Gothenburg seeking an exciting and engaging part-time opportunity? We are now looking for two international student ambassadors for the academic year 2023/2024 to work with the University’s Chinese social media channels. 

The placement is at the Communication Unit, which is part of the University's Central Administration. We work with communication in many different areas: press, research communication, web and digital channels, student recruitment, visual identity, and more.  

Your official title as Student Ambassador will be Assistant.

Job assignments
As an international student ambassador, you are part of a team of around 15 ambassadors from all over the world with a variety of educational backgrounds and study areas. The main task of our ambassadors is to communicate with our prospective international students through webinars, virtual fairs, and various digital channels. 

More specific work tasks include, for example: 


• Run different social media accounts on a variety of platforms (Weibo, Zhihu, WeChat, QQ) 
• Plan, produce, and publish content for social media 
• Taking part in and hosting webinars 
• Providing support and guidance to our prospective international students regarding study-related matters during above mentioned events and channels 

The employment is an intermittent/on-demand employment that is paid on an hourly basis. There are no fixed working hours, and throughout the academic year there will be more or less busy periods, for example at the start of a semester or during the admissions period. 

As an international student ambassador, your assignments are flexible, and you can contribute with your own experiences and interests. You can both plan much of your work independently or work together with other ambassadors – of course, always in accordance with your studies. You will be able to conduct your work from home but are also very welcome to join us in our Communication Unit office in Vasastan for meetings and work sessions. 

In your application, please state which programme you are studying and which semester you are in.  

Qualifications 

• You are a student at the University of Gothenburg 
• You are studying an international Bachelor’s or Master’s programme
• You have very good proficiency of written and spoken Chinese 
• You have very good proficiency of written and spoken English 
• Meritorious: knowledge of and experience with the above-mentioned social media platforms 
• Meritorious: experience with similar tasks 

To be suitable for this assignment, you need to have a service-oriented mindset and enjoy working with people. We place great importance on personal qualities such as collaboration skills, motivation, and responsibility.  

Employment 
The employment is an intermittent employment, starting as soon as possible until 31 August 2024 with placement at the Communication Unit in Gothenburg. 

Hourly wage: 150 SEK

The university promotes equality, equity, and diversity in recruitment. 

Contact information for the post 
If you have any questions about the position, please contactt Matthias Teich, Communications Officer, +46 (0)31-786 67 19, matthias.teich@gu.se  or
Maria Eriksson, Head of Section, +46 (0)31-786 57 07, maria.eriksson@gu.se  

Unions 
Union representatives at the University of Gothenburg can be found here: https://www.gu.se/om-universitetet/jobba-hos-oss/hjalp-for-sokande 

Application 
To apply for a position at the University of Gothenburg, you have to create an account in our recruitment system. Submit your application via the University of Gothenburg’s recruitment portal by clicking the “Apply” button. It is your responsibility to ensure that the application is complete as per the vacancy notice, and that the University receives it by the final application deadline. The application should include:

- CV
- Cover letter
- Student certificate

Applications must be received by: September 7th, 2023.

The University works actively to achieve a working environment with equal conditions, and values the qualities that diversity brings to its operations.

Salaries are set individually at the University.

In accordance with the National Archives of Sweden’s regulations, the University must archive application documents for two years after the appointment is filled. If you request that your documents are returned, they will be returned to you once the two years have passed. Otherwise, they will be destroyed.

In connection to this recruitment, we have already decided which recruitment channels we should use. We therefore decline further contact with vendors, recruitment and staffing companies.