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Volunteer as an alumni mentor

Alumni mentors share their expertise and offer personalised, meaningful guidance to students at the beginning of their career journeys. It's a rewarding experience - for mentors and mentees.

A student with a mentor

Sign up to one of our three alumni mentoring programmes, running from November 2023 to April 2024:  

We will do our best to match you with a student using the responses you have given us, but please be aware there is not always a suitable match available.

UCL Careers Extra skills mentoring 

Careers Extra is our programme of enhanced careers support for UK undergraduates from under-represented backgrounds.   

We are looking for UK-based alumni from a variety of disciplines to take part this year as mentors for Careers Extra students and are particularly keen to hear from alumni who would have met the eligibility criteria for belonging to Careers Extra themselves. 

Mentors will need to attend one or more of a series of the following training events:

  • Wed 8 Nov, 5-6 pm hybrid (40 Bernard Street/Microsoft Teams). 
  • Thurs 9 Nov, 1-2 pm (Microsoft Teams) 
  • Tues 14 Nov, 5-6 pm (Microsoft Teams) 

Sign up by Wednesday 18 October

Bartlett Promise Scholars 

We will match Bartlett Promise Scholars with UK-based or international mentors who have studied at The Bartlett or have taken career paths related to the built environment.   

The Bartlett is the UK's largest and most multidisciplinary hub for built environment education and research. Its 13 schools and institutes span a unique variety of disciplines including architecture, urban design, planning, construction, resources, policy and heritage.

Mentors will need to attend one or more of a series of the following training events:

  • Wed 8 Nov, 5-6 pm hybrid (40 Bernard Street/Microsoft Teams). 
  • Thurs 9 Nov, 1-2 pm (Microsoft Teams) 
  • Tues 14 Nov, 5-6 pm (Microsoft Teams) 

Sign up by Wednesday 18 October

UCL Laws skills mentoring 

The UCL Laws skills mentoring programme is a one-to-one programme where alumni mentors support students to develop the transferable skills needed for the workplace.  

We are looking for alumni working in the legal field or alumni who have undertaken an LLM or LLB to take part this year as mentors. 

Mentors will need to attend our online kick-off event on Thursday 16 November, 6:30-7:30pm GMT. 

Sign up by Sunday 22 October