Become an eStudent 360 Ambassador

We are opening applications for student ambassadors in Ghana and Canada.

Before the pitch, the honest position. eStudent 360 is early. Mentors are verified and matching works, and there are parts of it that are thinner than we would like. An ambassador is not someone who pretends otherwise. You are the person who tells other students what this actually is, which is the only kind of recommendation a sixteen-year-old believes anyway.

What an ambassador does

Represent the platform where you already are. Your school, your campus, your youth group. A five minute talk at the start of a class, a noticeboard, a message in the right group chat.

Run one introduction session a term. With a member of staff present. We give you the slides and the script; you make it sound like a person rather than a leaflet.

Say what it was actually like for you. Your own experience, in your own words. We will never send you a testimonial to read out. If mentoring did not help you, say that too, and tell us why.

Walk one student to their first session. Not sign them up, not do it for them. Sit next to them while they book. This is the single most useful thing you can do, and there is a reason we are asking for it specifically: plenty of students get matched with a mentor and never book a meeting. If you can find out why, that is worth more to us than fifty signups.

Tell us what students actually ask. The questions that come up again and again, the ones our pathways do not answer, the subjects nobody has a route for. You hear these; we do not.

Point people at the right door. If someone raises a concern about a mentor or another student, you tell them how to report it and you tell us. That is the whole of your role there.

What an ambassador is not

This part matters more than the list above, so read it twice.

You are not a counsellor. If a student comes to you in distress, you are not expected to handle it, and you should not try. You signpost them to a trusted adult and to our safety route. Nobody will be disappointed in you for that. It is the correct action.

You are not responsible for anyone's safety. Safeguarding on this platform is our job and the job of the adults around a young person. It is never the job of another student.

You do not sign anyone up, collect their details, or use their account. Students register themselves. Under 18s need a guardian's approval, and that has to come from the guardian, not from a friend with a phone.

You do not vouch for mentors. Verification is ours. Never tell a student a mentor is safe because you know them.

You do not speak for us on incidents or to the press. Send those to us. This protects you.

Who can apply

You must be 16 or over. If you are under 18, we need a guardian's written approval for the ambassador role specifically, separate from any approval they have already given for mentoring. We will contact them directly.

You do not need to be top of your class, and you do not need to know what you want to do. Being the student who asks the awkward question is a better qualification than a perfect transcript.

You should already have used the platform. Ambassadors who have never been mentored cannot describe it honestly, and honestly is the entire point.

What it takes

Two to three hours a month, for one term minimum. Less than most people expect. We would rather have somebody reliable for twelve weeks than enthusiastic for two.

What you get

It is unpaid, like mentoring.

You get a written reference from us describing what you actually did, with dates, which is worth something for university and scholarship applications that ask about service and leadership. You get a certificate at the end of each term. You get named on the site if you want to be, and not if you do not.

You also get a direct line to the people building this, early access to what we are working on, and genuine influence over it. When an ambassador tells us a pathway is wrong for their country, we change the pathway.

And you get practice standing in front of a room and explaining something you believe in, which is a skill that transfers to everything.

How to apply

Get in touch through the contact page and tell us three things: where you would represent us, what you would tell a student who asked whether this is worth their time, and one thing you would change about the platform.

That last one is not a trick question. We will read the answers.

Applications are reviewed as they arrive. If you are under 18 we will speak to your guardian before anything is confirmed, and every ambassador goes through a short safeguarding briefing before they start.