Inclusive Design Co-Creator (UCL Students Only)

Unitemps Warwick; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 19,000 - 22,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Unitemps are recruiting for a Inclusive Design Co-Creator. This role is suitable for UCL Students Only. This is a part-time role with varying hours; the project is for 20 hours in total, with some working dates mandatory (10:00 - 12:00 in 2027, exact dates listed below).

This role is for an asap start date (end of October) and a projected end date of July 30th 2027. Payment is set at £14.85 per hour + £2.78 holiday pay. This role is UCL hybrid working.

Qualifications

• Current UCL undergraduate, postgraduate taught or doctoral student
• Identifies as disabled and/or neurodivergent
• Interest in improving inclusive teaching, learning and the student experience
• Interest in accessibility, inclusion and/or inclusive educational practice
• Availability to attend all scheduled workshops and project activities

Responsibilities

• Contribute lived experience to inform development of staff-facing resources and inclusive educational design approaches
• Support identification, review and interpretation of anonymised student insights
• Help ensure outputs are informed by authentic student perspectives and contribute to more inclusive teaching and learning practices across UCL
• Participate in co-creation activities and workshops

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Organisational

Feedback

Job description

Unitemps are recruiting for a Inclusive Design Co-Creator. This role is suitable for UCL Students Only. This is a part-time role with varying hours; the project is for 20 hours in total, with some working dates mandatory (10:00 - 12:00 in 2027, exact dates listed below). This role is for an asap start date (end of October) and a projected end date of July 30th 2027. Payment is set at £14.85 per hour + £2.78 holiday pay. This role is UCL hybrid working.

Context

UCL Arena is UCL's academic development centre, supporting staff to enhance teaching, learning and assessment across the university. Through professional development programmes, educational enhancement initiatives and partnership activities, UCL Arena works to improve educational quality and the student experience.

This role forms part of the Student Success Project, From Barrier Stories to Design Change: A Disabled and Neurodivergent Student Inclusive Design Panel. The project seeks to place disabled and neurodivergent students' expertise at the centre of educational design by exploring barriers and enablers to learning and translating these insights into practical improvements for teaching, assessment, communication and student support.

Main purpose of the job

The Student Inclusive Design Co-Creator will contribute lived experience and expertise as a disabled and/or neurodivergent student to inform the development of staff-facing resources and inclusive educational design approaches.

Working in partnership with UCL Arena staff and fellow student co-creators, the postholder will support the identification, review and interpretation of anonymised student insights, helping ensure that project outputs are informed by authentic student perspectives and contribute to more inclusive teaching and learning practices across UCL.

Students will not be asked to disclose diagnoses or evaluate individual staff members, modules or departments.

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Essential Criteria

Qualifications, experience and knowledge

• Current UCL undergraduate, postgraduate taught or doctoral student
• Identifies as disabled and/or neurodivergent
• Interest in improving inclusive teaching, learning and the student experience
• Interest in accessibility, inclusion and/or inclusive educational practice
• Availability to attend all scheduled workshops and project activities

Skills and abilities

• Ability to communicate ideas, experiences and perspectives clearly and respectfully
• Ability to reflect on experiences in a constructive and solution-focused way
• Ability to work collaboratively with staff and fellow students
• Ability to contribute effectively to group discussions and co-creation activities
• Ability to review information and provide constructive feedback
• Good organisational skills and ability to meet agreed commitments

UCL Ways of Working

• Ability to work collaboratively, listen to different perspectives and contribute constructively to shared goals in line with UCL’s Ways of Working

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of advocacy, partnership or co-creation activities
• Experience providing feedback on services, resources, projects or student initiatives

UCL; hybrid working, part from the office and part from home

This job will close for applications at 11.59pm on Monday October 19th. Interviews will be held shortly after.

*Please note to be eligible to work within this role, you must have the right to work in the UK, be physically based in the UK and be able to travel to our London based office for a RTW check (if required).

*If you have a full‑time contract of employment with UCL, you are not able to work through UCL Unitemps at the same time.

Unitemps reserves the right to close this advert for applications prior to the date specified above, if a high volume of suitable applications are received so pleased don't delay applying.

Unitemps payroll is monthly, one month in arrears, please see the payroll dates here.