Student Opportunities Hub - Employers

• Applications should be focussed on the benefit of a student working on a project to find a solution to a strategic problem/issue/challenge your organisation faces
• You will receive funding to pay your intern at Living Wage (£12.60 per hour)
• All internships must start in June and finish by 10 September 2025. We can discuss working patterns/hours per week to suit your project, as long as all internships finish within the specified time frame
• We will support you throughout the recruitment process to identify the best possible candidate for your internship project
• We will advertise the role for you (you will initially create an account and upload the role on our Glasgow Careers platform) and complete basic quality and eligibility checks on the applications received before sending them over to you to review and organise interviews
• You will onboard, provide a contract and pay the student as an employee and then invoice the university for the funding (the process for this will be agreed in advance of your role going live)
• As an employer, it is your responsibility to ensure all appropriate PAYE, national insurance and pension contributions (where relevant) are processed in accordance with HMRC requirements. For further advice, please either contact HMRC or your own financial advisers
• You must have Public Liability Insurance and Employer’s Liability Insurance in place that will cover the intern (even when working remotely)
• If your project is not selected, we can discuss altnerative options for you to potentially still recruit a student
• All internships are subject to our terms & conditions. If successful, you will be sent a copy to sign prior to the start date of the internship. These can be found further down on this page

If you're a third sector organisation with a project in mind for this programme, please complete this application form by 3 March 2025.

We're holding two online information sessions on the below dates to help with applications.

• Thursday, 6 February, 12:30-13:30
• Tuesday, 25 February, 10:30-11:30

If you'd like to attend one of the sessions or have any questions, please get in touch via studentopportunitieshub@glasgow.ac.uk.

Previous projects have included

• Business Data Analysis Intern JD
• Community Consultation Intern JD
• Data Collection and Research Intern JD
• Graphic Design and Content Creation Intern JD
• Library Project Intern JD
• Research Intern JD
• Research Intern JD 2
• Social Media and Audience Research Intern JD

These projects are examples to help you in creating your project and show the format of the final advert. We welcome a range of projects, and your application doesn't need to be in one of these areas.

Previous projects have been targeted to students within certain subject areas. You can see a list of our colleges and schools here.

If you are successful in receiving this funding, you will be sent a copy of the below Terms and Conditions to sign and return prior to your internship being advertised.

1. We will pay You a grant of £2,016 to be used to employ an intern during the period 2 June 2025 to 10 September 2025. This is full funding and will cover 160 hours of work. 
2. You agree to pay the intern the UK Real Living Wage of £12.60 an hour. 
3. The intern will be employed by You, and You will pay them via Your current payroll programme. 
4. As an employer it is Your responsibility to ensure all appropriate PAYE, national insurance and pension contributions (where relevant) are processed in accordance with HMRC requirements. For further advice please either contact HMRC or Your own financial advisers. 
5. Upon signing this agreement, We will contact You requesting financial and company information so that We can establish You as a supplier in Our finance portal. You will send these details to Us within 7 working days of Us requesting this information. 
6. When the recruitment process is concluded, and an intern has been appointed and started their role, We will send You a purchase order for the agreed amount of funding. The purchase order will be sent to You by Our finance office to the email address that You provided in the above company information. 
7. Once You receive Our purchase order number, You can then invoice Us. Your invoice must quote the purchase number provided and be from the same company name and address that You provided in section 5 above. Your invoice should be in a PDF format and must be sent to the email address quoted on the purchase order and cc studentopportunitieshub@glasgow.ac.uk. You should submit Your invoice for payment within two weeks of the intern start date.  
8. Our standard payment terms are 30 days from receipt of Your invoice. If You have not received Our remittance advice and funds to Your stated bank account within a few days of this time frame, You must contact Us at studentopportunitieshub@glasgow.ac.uk so We are able to investigate within 7 working days. 
9. If You are late in submitting Your invoice, We may be unable to effect payment as Our purchase orders automatically close. Once Our purchase order is closed, We will be unable to make any payment to You and You will have no recourse to claim this funding. 
10. If the internship is not completed in accordance with the job description, We reserve the right to reclaim any payments made. 
11. If the internship is not completed to the agreed time frame, We reserve the right to reclaim full or partial payments made. 
12. You confirm that You have in place relevant employer insurance policies. 
13. During the internship, You agree to allocate some time for the intern to complete a brief reflection assignment. This will be discussed with the Student Opportunities Team when confirming the intern's employment.