3 March 2026

The Alumni Office at Leiden University College is currently looking for a new a Student Assistant! 

In this paid role, you will work closely with Anureet Bali (Recruitment and Alumni Officer) for 6 hours per week across ten months of the academic year (mid-July to mid-May), with the possibility of extension. The role is a mix of recurring responsibilities and project-based work, and there is real room to take ownership and be creative. 

The role consists of four key pillars:

1. Social Media Management: You will manage the alumni presence on LinkedIn and Instagram, keeping accounts active, creating content, designing posts via Canva, and coming up with new ideas that reflect the LUC brand. 

2. Event Organization: You will support alumni events throughout the year, including a large annual gathering of around 150 people. This means getting involved in speaker coordination, promotion, planning, and facilitation. 

3. Alumni Spotlight and Editorial Work: Each month, you will contribute to alumni spotlights by finding interesting alumni, reaching out to set up interviews, and turning those conversations into engaging written pieces. 

4. Community Research and Data Support: You will help audit and build the alumni directory, track master's degrees and career paths, manage the alumni inbox, and gather student input on what they want from the office. 

Upcoming projects you will be a part of:

This is a hands-on role with real projects from day one. Some of what we will be working on together next year: 

• Interactive Alumni directory: Auditing existing alumni data and building a searchable, interactive directory, think of a living map of where LUC alumni have gone, what master's they pursue, and what careers they have built. The goal is to give current students a real, visual resource they can actually use when thinking about their own next steps. 

• Mentorship programme: Designing and launching a structured mentorship programme that pairs current students with alumni based on background, interests, and industry. This means building the matching process, defining how the programme runs, and making sure it creates genuinely useful connections rather than just introductions that go nowhere. 

How to Apply?

Send a short 3-minute video responding to the following questions, along with the graphic asked for via the form below to by 8 May at 23:59. Tip: Try to implement the STAR method in your responses where possible.  

1. Tell us about an experience where you helped organise an event or build a network. What did you learn, and how would you apply it here? 

2. What would you, as a student, want to see from the alumni office, and how would you help make it happen? 

3. Give us an example of a time you had to manage multiple tasks or responsibilities at once. How did you stay on top of everything? 

Design task: Using the brief below, create a graphic and write a short caption you would use to promote it on Instagram or LinkedIn. Feel free to use whatever tools and make creative decisions about what to include and what to leave out. 

Brief: The LUC Alumni Office is launching a pilot mentorship programme in three focus areas: EdTech, sustainable fashion, and health policy. We are looking for alumni who want to mentor and students who want to take part. Mentors commit to two meetings per month for three months, offering guidance and concrete advice. Students commit to showing up and engaging fully. Applications open now, submit your CV and a four-sentence motivation via the form by 24 September. The programme kicks off on 14 October. 

Apply to be the new alumni student assistant with the link below!