Peer mentoring is a fun and rewarding way to get involved in UCD and make a difference! You'll play an important role in welcoming new students to UCD and helping them settle to in. Check out the UCD Peer Mentor Role Description ((opens in a new window)link) to learn more about what's involved.
If you’re selected to be a Peer Mentor you’ll be invited to complete mandatory training where you can meet other Peer Mentors from across the university and get to know the team who will support you in the role.
As well as the satisfaction you'll get from helping new students settle in, being a peer mentor has other great benefits too:
- Meeting new people and becoming more involved in UCD life
- Developing your organisational and leadership skills
- Improving your communication with others
- Increasing your confidence
- Improves your CV an enhances your employability
- Peer Mentor Hoodie
The time commitment, when managed properly, will not distract from your own studies. You are required to:
- Attend training and Orientation days.
- Contact your mentees when they accept their place (before Orientation).
- Organise four group meeting with your mentees in the first trimester.
- Share extended orientation topics with your mentees (we send this to you) .
- Respond to individual requests from your mentees from time to time.
- Maintain contact with them until the start of trimester 2.