The Role of a Peer Mentoring Student Coordinator

The Role of a Peer Mentoring Student Coordinator

As a Student Coordinator you are responsible for promoting the scheme within your discipline and you will become a regular point of contact for the Staff Coordinator(s), Mentors and Peer Support Interns.

Our Expectations of you

You will be responsible for helping your Mentors and ensuring they have the best possible experience. You will run Mentor Meetings which will be attended by all your Mentors, the Staff Coordinators, and the Peer Support Intern. Mentor meetings are important because:

• You can find out how the Mentors are doing, if they have any problems, and how you could overcome these as a team.
• They are a place to organise socials. 
• Mentors can meet and chat with other Mentors.
• You can inform Mentors of any news, and receive updates from the Interns.
• You can feedback on the first year experiences to Academic Coordinator.

As a Student Coordinator you will support your Mentors and develop your scheme, this is paired with the freedom to be creative and develop the scheme. Some of the most successful Student Coordinators have been those who have put effort into developing new and interesting ways to enhance the experience of students on their course.  

Student Coordinators MUST:

• Recruit Mentors (with help from the Academic Coordinator and Peer Support Intern).
• Attend Coordinator training and workshops.
• Assign Mentor groups (with the help of the Staff Coordinators).
• Support Mentors by running Mentor Meetings.
• Ensure there is an online group (E.g. Facebook, Whatsapp) where Mentors can readily share information with each other.
• Ensure registers for Mentor meetings are completed and are easily accessible to the Peer Support Intern (For example, using online google.docs).
• Work with Mentors to organise events and activitiesfor the scheme.
• Produce handover information for the next Student Coordinator at the end of the academic year.
• (If applicable) Create Pre Arrival Guides for next academic years new students

Support and Opportunities for you

Peer Support Interns are there to ensure the maintenanceand development of the scheme and that your personal goals and plans for the scheme are achieved. It is important that you keep in touch with them so they can help you with this.

Student Coordinators are all required to undergo Student Coordinator Training at the start of the year. There will also be Coordinator Workshops throughout the yearwhere all Coordination team (Academic, Admin, and Student Coordinators) will be invited to attend or deliver a workshop around key themes which your scheme may need help in. All Peer Mentor Coordination teams across the University will also be present so will be a great place to share good practice.

We also provide paid, volunteering and training opportunities (some of which will only be advertised to Coordinators) and chances to represent the University at different events. 

Most importantly the role of Student Coordinator is acommitment with responsibilities but students report it to be a fun role.