Alumni volunteering opportunities
Discover the current opportunities to become an alumni volunteer and share your knowledge and guidance.
Could you mentor a student?
We’re inviting alumni from all industries to give back to the next generation of professionals by mentoring a current student.
Mentoring is a powerful way to share your knowledge and experience while helping students gain confidence, career insight and a clearer sense of direction. Whether you offer advice, industry know-how, or simply a friendly ear, your support can truly make a difference.
Time commitment? It’s flexible, typically just one or two virtual or in-person meetings a month.
Interested? Complete a short application:
International webinars - call for speakers
We are looking for International alumni, from any subject area and study level, who would be willing to give an hour of their time to speak about their experience as a student in the UK, and then about their journey since graduating. We are equally interested in:
- Alumni who have returned to their home country to start their career;
- Alumni who have stayed in the UK, or taken a role in a different country, since graduating
International webinars help prospective students decide on their study and career plans - they take place online, so you can volunteer from anywhere in the world.
Register your interest in taking part by emailing [email protected]
Join us as guest speakers for Week 6: Get Career Ready
We invite alumni to give back by taking part in our annual Week 6: Get Career Ready week, running from 3 November. This annual event is dedicated to helping current students prepare for life after university and your experience could make all the difference.
We are looking for alumni to participate as guest speakers in panel discussions, interactive workshops, and networking sessions. By sharing your educational and career journey, you’ll provide invaluable insights and inspiration to students exploring their future paths.
Why Get Involved?
Week 6 offers students the time and space to focus on their career readiness, enhancing their career connectivity, literacy, and mobility. Your involvement helps bring real-world perspectives into the student experience, supporting them to build confidence, clarify goals, and take meaningful steps forward.
Register your interest in taking part by emailing [email protected]
Support students on our Young Enterprise Unit
The Department of Strategy, Enterprise, and Sustainability (SES) is inviting alumni to come on to campus as business advisors or dragons for our Young Enterprise (YE) students.
The business advisor workshops offer the opportunity for students to pitch their business ideas to a practitioner audience in an informal setting and receive feedback based on the advisor’s expertise and experience. These quick-fire business advisor meetings truly test out students’ knowledge of their business.
The dragons usually attend a launch day, mark the stands, and informally discuss the businesses with the students. They then listen to and assess pitches for investment.
To find out more or to register your interest, please email [email protected].
Hong Kong law mentoring
- Open to alumni who studied on Manchester Met law programmes taught at our partner HKU SPACE.
We are looking for graduates in a variety of roles to take part in the Alumni Chapter Hong Kong’s mentoring programme for students on our law programmes at HKU SPACE. Mentoring involves taking part in one or more evening or Saturday one-to-two hour sessions either online or face-to-face. The mentor role includes informally presenting and talking to students to give them study tips and career knowledge.
To find out more or to register your interest, please email [email protected].
Student consultancy projects
We provide our students with real world experience during their studies. As part of this you could provide a live project for our students to work on. Benefit from the expertise, knowledge, and fresh ideas of our students, as well as a key member of academic staff to supervise the progress and deliverables of the project.
Find out more by emailing [email protected].
Work with our students on your sustainability performance
Our inter-disciplinary team of academics and professionals have embedded carbon literacy and carbon management into our curriculum. You could offer industry experience to our students to support your organisations sustainability performance and enhance their learning. As part of this, we’ll provide supervised final year student group projects free of charge. To find out more, please email [email protected].
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If you have any questions, get in touch with our friendly team.