Grade UE03: £24,729 - £25,804 per annum, pro rata
Information Services / Learning, Teaching and Web Services / DLAM Captioning Service
Fixed-term: 12 months contract
Vacancies available: 10
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The University of Edinburgh is a world-class organisation. We are a large University covering a wide range of activities. In Professional Services, we support the University’s research and teaching, offering many career and role specialisms.
We are looking for students from varied areas of study and interests to join our diverse team of intern Media Caption Editors. We work on videos and lecture recordings across the entire University to improve accessibility for students, general audiences, and assist teaching colleagues and staff who create media content. Our ideal candidates have excellent English language skills, impeccable attention to detail, good IT literacy and can brin expertise in an assortment of subject areas. Daily duties include reviewing media captioning accuracy, but may involve data entry and records keeping, as well as other short-term projects in collaboration with colleagues across Information Services and colleges.
People have always been at the heart of our work. Our people are at the centre of the University community and everything we do. We value colleagues with drive, determination and a passion for what they do. We are a place where everyone is welcome and offer a range of policies and benefits designed to support you in building the right meaningful flexibility that works for you.
This post is part-time (7 hours per week); however, we are open to considering 15 hours part-time or flexible working patterns. We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.
A career with us has a range of other benefits that can be tailored to your lifestyle:
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The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter, and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and particularly encourage applications from international candidates.
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The closing date for applications is 14 October 2026.
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Interviews will be held on the week commencing 26 October.
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