Campus Entrepreneur Ambassador [NEWCASTLE]

Campus Entrepreneur Ambassador [NEWCASTLE]

Honorarium: £1,000 | ~2 hours/week | September 2025 – May 2026
Turn your master’s year into a launchpad for influence, connections and real-world impact.

Founders4Schools (F4S) is an award-winning education charity that has already connected over 750,000 students with the businesses shaping the future of their local communities. Through our Oak North Startup Speaker Series, we are seeking to appoint 12 master’s students to act as Campus Ambassadors—curating events and amplifying entrepreneurial insights to inspire secondary school students in six UK cities.

What you’ll do

Lead business outreach
Build relationships with local startups and scale-up businesses, encouraging their staff to share their career journeys with local school students.

Turn insights into influence.
Share top role takeaways through short LinkedIn posts and a quarterly Startup Career Briefing, helping more young people see themselves in entrepreneurial roles in the exciting startups in your community..

Advise F4S HQ:
Feed in real-time insight to help F4S better understand what skills are needed most for roles in the startup and scaleup sector.

What you’ll gain

• A founder-level network: Reasons to connect with 50+ startup and scale-up leaders, investors, and innovators in your city.


• Credible experience: Quantifiable results for your CV, LinkedIn, or visa application—every student reached is tracked.


• Coaching and support: Access to F4S proprietary databases, mentors and comms experts to help you grow your employability skills.


• A £1,000 honorarium, paid in three instalments for reaching monthly milestones.

Who you are

• A master’s-level student (MBA, MSc, MEng, MDes, etc.) enrolled at a UK university.


• A confident communicator who can cold-outreach a founder and have a meeting in the diary by the end of the week.


• Energised by entrepreneurship, social mobility, mentoring young people AND able to commit ~2 hours per week.


• Comfortable using LinkedIn as a professional outreach and storytelling tool.

Eligibility

• You must have the right to work in the UK (Student Visa holders welcome).


• You must be studying and living in Newcastle

Ready to lead?

1. A 150-word pitch: How would you persuade a local startup or scale-up founder to mentor young people?


2. Your LinkedIn URL (as this will be a key tool in the role).
   

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed week commencing 8th September 2025.

Let’s shape the next generation of changemakers—starting with you.