Student jobs and roles at UniSQ
Paid opportunities
Make a difference and support students while building your professional skills. Casual positions for students may become available across all three campuses, including face-to-face and online environments, with all offering competitive hourly rates. Ongoing casual positions may also support a roster that is flexible around your study schedule, allowing you to earn while you learn.
This could look like:
- Supporting students as an iconnect concierge
- Helping future students to apply or accept an offer
- Guiding new students to enrol in their first courses
- Assisting with graduation ceremonies or other events
- Providing computer and software support to students.
If you are interested in any current or future casual positions, please email us with your interest and attach a copy of your current resume.
The Student Ambassador Program is an opportunity for passionate current students to represent UniSQ and support the delivery of activities aimed to recruit domestic future students to UniSQ. The role of a Student Ambassador is to support the delivery of domestic future student recruitment activities including campus tours, information presentations, visits to high schools, workshops and university open days or careers events.
A Student Ambassador will promote UniSQ, share their journey to study and create excitement around the possibility of attending UniSQ. The capturing of prospective student contact details (‘leads’) for remarketing purposes is also a central requirement of these roles.
The next recruitment round will take place in early 2026, express your interest and be notified when it opens.
Do you enjoy working with a great team to help other students find information and resources? Our Student Library Assistants are currently enrolled students who contribute to the Library service and form a vital part of our on-campus teams. Casual positions for students may become available across all three campuses, offering competitive hourly rates. We advertise positions throughout the year, so keep an eye on your UConnect announcements and UMail.
What you'll do
As a Student Library Assistant, you’ll:
- Work on our Library help desks, helping students to find information and library resources
- Use online support resources to provide general advice about library research skills and referencing
- Help to maintain library resources, including shelving, finding, scanning and moving printed resources
- Help look after library spaces, assisting with furniture, equipment, displays, and events
Student Library Assistants develop skills in client service, problem-solving, academic study, and teamwork. It’s a great environment in a supportive, dynamic team.
Are you passionate about helping others succeed at university? Want to build your leadership and communication skills while making a real impact? Become a Peer Learning Facilitator and support your fellow students in a collaborative, welcoming environment.
What you'll do
As a Peer Learning Facilitator, you’ll:
- Facilitate workshops that help students build confidence and develop effective study strategies.
- Create a sense of community by fostering connection and belonging.
- Share practical tips for studying smarter—not harder—and navigating university systems like StudyDesk and support services.
- Collaborate with staff and academics to co-create study resources and workshops.
- Promote peer learning activities through engaging posts and communications that encourage participation.
Why join?
- Develop valuable facilitation and leadership skills.
- Gain experience working with professional staff and academics.
- Make a meaningful contribution to your university community.
- Support equitable access to education for all students.
As an Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme (ITAS) tutor, your role is to support students in developing the academic skills and confidence they need to succeed independently. Your focus is on fostering autonomy,and helping them build the skills they need to achieve success.
At this time, there are no available positions and we are not accepting applications. Please check back later for future opportunities.
The Student Success Advising team assists students with support and advice throughout their learning journey at UniSQ. Student Success Assistants support the Student Success Advising team to assist UniSQ students to achieve their version of success. Student Success Assistants outreach to students and connect them with personally relevant resources and services, provide them with advice on navigating the learning environment and university processes, and assist them with finding answers to questions.
This is a paid position and Student Success Assistants receive training and ongoing support. Throughout their time in the program, Student Success Assistants develop UniSQ graduate attributes in digital literacy, written and spoken communication, coaching and advising, problem solving, analytical thinking, cultural competence, and teamwork.
Staying at the Residential Colleges provides a number of leadership opportunities for students, including taking on a position in the Collegiate Team or Resident Student Club.
The Collegiate Team is a group of residents employed by the each college to help students out with any difficulties they might have while living on college, whether academic, social or personal.
Each college has a Resident Student Club (RSC) of which all resident students are members. The running of the RSC is vested in a committee voted in by all members of the resident body. The RSC is responsible for organising sporting and informal social activities as well as representing students in discussions at committees.
Study Skills Assistants (SSAs) are employed to provide a range of supports to assist students with a disability to achieve their academic goals. Study Skills Assistants are usually students undertaking study in the same area, or may have recently graduated and have good knowledge of the tertiary environment.
The support role encompasses a wide range of roles including:
- study skills support
- participation assistance
- note taking, and
- sign interpreters.
We recruit Study Skills Assistants each year at the start of each semester. If you are interested in providing support services, please email disabilitysupport@unisq.edu.au or call 07 4631 2372.
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