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Develop operations, event management, and project coordination skills by supporting the delivery of large-scale student engagement campaigns, live events, and marketing activations across the UK.native has been building for 10 years, but we're still very much a startup: fast-moving, ambitious, and building with intent. We're creating the infrastructure that connects students, Students’ Unions, universities, and advertisers through a managed marketplace.Every year, we deliver one of the largest student engagement programmes in the UK. From Freshers' Fairs and nationwide campus tours to experiential brand campaigns and large-scale student events, we create the infrastructure that connects students, Students' Unions, universities and advertisers.None of that happens by accident.Behind every successful event, campaign and activation is a huge amount of planning, coordination, logistics, problem-solving and execution. This graduate programme gives you the opportunity to learn how it all works from the inside during the most exciting period of the year.From July through to the Freshers season finale in October, you'll work alongside teams delivering live events, nationwide tours, advertiser campaigns and student experiences at scale.We're looking for recent graduates, final-year students, or those with equivalent experience who want to step straight into meaningful work, learn quickly and make a tangible impact.What We're Looking ForThis role requires clarity of thought, structured thinking and good judgement under pressure. You'll need to switch between projects quickly, handle competing priorities, solve problems before they become issues, and help teams deliver at pace during our busiest period of the year.The sharpest thinkers are often the ones who've had to work hardest to be taken seriously. The people who see patterns others miss are often the ones who've never quite fit the standard template. The candidates with the best judgement are frequently the ones who've been underestimated, or who've had to prove the same capability twice as many times as their peers.If that describes your path – if you've had to explain yourself more than others, or if you've done hard things that don't look impressive on paper – this role might be for you.We're looking for people who:Rebuild problems from scratch rather than inherit solutionsStay organised when lots of moving parts are changing at onceMake decisions in ambiguity without needing permissionTake ownership of outcomes rather than waiting to be askedEnjoy being useful, adaptable and trusted across multiple teamsCommunicate clearly and professionally with different stakeholdersDo work properly because it matters to them, not because someone's measuringHave done hard things that required more than just being clever on paperWe look for intellectual sharpness, practical judgement and a willingness to get stuck in. Strong academic records tell us something. So does organising events, leading projects, managing competing commitments, working in fast-paced environments, or simply demonstrating exceptional ownership in whatever you've done.The OpportunityYou'll join our Central Operations team during one of the busiest and most exciting periods of the year as we prepare for and deliver Freshers' season across the UK.This is a highly varied role designed to expose you to multiple parts of the business. You'll work alongside teams responsible for operations, logistics, campaign delivery, experiential marketing, events, staffing and student engagement.No two weeks will look the same.Your responsibilities may include:Supporting the planning and delivery of Freshers' Fairs across the UKHelping coordinate one of the UK's largest annual student engagement programmesAssisting with project management and operational coordination across multiple workstreamsWorking with our warehousing and logistics teams to ensure event materials, stock and assets are delivered where they need to beSupporting nationwide Freshers tours and experiential campaignsHelping coordinate staffing schedules, recruitment activity and event personnelAssisting campaign delivery teams to ensure advertiser campaigns are executed successfullySupporting the experiential delivery team with live activations and event executionWorking with student audience teams to drive engagement and participationContributing to the planning and delivery of the Big Student Lock-In Freshers Finale in London on 3 OctoberMaintaining documentation, trackers and operational systems that help teams stay alignedIdentifying opportunities to improve processes and remove operational bottlenecksJumping into whatever needs doing to help the wider business succeed during peak delivery periodsIf you have experience in design, content creation, creative production or video editing, there may also be opportunities to support campaign and event content throughout the programme.Why This Programme Is DifferentMost graduate programmes expose you to one team. This programme exposes you to a business. Over three months you'll work across operations, logistics, live events, campaign delivery, staffing, audience engagement and experiential marketing, building a broad understanding of how large-scale student campaigns and experiences are planned and delivered.You'll gain practical experience in:Event OperationsProject ManagementLogistics & Supply Chain CoordinationCampaign DeliveryExperiential MarketingStakeholder ManagementLive Event ExecutionResource PlanningProcess ImprovementStartup OperationsIf you're unsure exactly where your career will take you, but know you enjoy organising things, solving problems and making projects happen, this is an opportunity to learn from multiple disciplines in a fast-moving environment.What Happens After The ProgrammeThis programme runs throughout our busiest and most exciting delivery period, from July through to the completion of Freshers' season. You'll leave with hands-on experience delivering large-scale campaigns, events and operational projects alongside experienced teams responsible for reaching millions of students across the UK.While the programme itself is fixed-term, outstanding performers may be considered for future opportunities within native as the business continues to grow.Equal Opportunity StatementWe are actively creating an equitable environment for everyone at native to thrive. Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we are making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at native. At native, we embrace diversity in all of its forms and foster an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us.

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Develop research, survey design, and project coordination skills by writing research content, managing participant studies, and delivering insights for student audience research.native has been building for 10 years, but we're still very much a startup: fast-moving, ambitious, and building with intent. We're creating the infrastructure that connects students, Students' Unions, universities, and advertisers through a managed marketplace.Our goal is to increase student engagement while enabling Students' Unions to secure sustainable funding. For advertisers, we offer meaningful, measurable routes to student audiences. The more aligned these incentives are, the more defensible and scalable our business becomes.We're looking for graduates who can do two things well: write properly, and run things properly. The writing side means survey questions that land, emails that get opened, and findings written up so a sales team can actually sell with them. The coordination side means recruitment, scheduling, response monitoring, consent records, and all the operational scaffolding that keeps research moving on time and to standard.What we're looking forWe value clarity of thought, good judgement under pressure, the ability to create structure where none exists, and writing that does work rather than decorates it.You might be right for this if:You think in first principles, not borrowed answers, solving problems from the ground upYou write the way you think: clearly, precisely, and without paddingYou're organised by instinct, the kind of person who notices when a tracker is out of date and fixes it without being askedYou thrive in ambiguity, comfortable making decisions when there isn't a mapYou do the work, not for applause, but because it matters to you that things are done wellYou've got range, you're not just smart on paper, you've done things that demanded resilience, judgement, or initiativeWe are open to a wide range of degree backgrounds, but we look for intellectual sharpness, structured thinking, and a track record of writing well. That often shows up in disciplines like English, History, Philosophy, Classics, Languages, Journalism or Linguistics, but not always. If you've written a thesis, edited a student paper, run a newsletter, ghostwritten for a startup, or built any kind of body of work in prose, we want to hear about it. If your academic path is less typical, help us understand how your thinking and your writing have been shaped and why they stand up.What you'll be working onThis is a hybrid role. Roughly half writing, half coordination, with the balance shifting week to week depending on what's in flight.On the writing side, you'll be:Writing and refining survey questions, ensuring every item is clear, unbiased, and earns its place in the instrumentDrafting recruitment emails, reminders, and follow-up sequences that actually get students to respond, with attention to subject lines, opening hooks, length, and call to actionTurning raw survey responses into narratives, briefs, and sales-ready outputs that commercial teams can take into client conversationsEditing and improving copy across research touchpoints, from participant-facing comms to internal write-ups, holding a consistent voice and standardProviding support for ad-hoc research requests and reportsOn the coordination side, you'll be:Running end-to-end logistics for qualitative and quantitative research, including participant recruitment, scheduling interviews, and organising focus groups and prizes.Deploying surveys, monitoring response rates, and ensuring accurate sampling and timely completionMaintaining meticulous records of participants, consent documentation, and survey responses, with full compliance to data protection standardsKeeping trackers, schedules, and project documentation accurate and up to date so nothing slipsCollaborating closely with the insights team to ensure insights are accurately captured, well written, and actionableThis role provides practical experience in structured, high-quality research, the writing craft that surrounds it, and the operational discipline that makes both possible. It will quickly develop your end-to-end expertise in a fast-paced research environment.Required SkillsYou'll be right for this role if:You've studied a discipline that demands a lot of writing, such as English, History, Philosophy, Classics, Languages, Journalism, Linguistics, or similarYou can show us writing you're proud of, whether published, academic, student journalism, a substack, a newsletter, or work done on the sideYou have an instinct for email copy: you understand why some subject lines get opened and others don't, why some messages get a reply and others get ignoredYou have practical exposure to designing or critiquing survey instruments and understand the basics of question types, ordering effects, and writing for clarity rather than ambiguityYou're familiar with survey software like Qualtrics, Typeform, or similar, and with email tools (Mailchimp, Customer.io, Klaviyo, or equivalent) at least at the level of someone who has used them in a serious contextYou're highly organised, able to manage multiple projects, timelines, datasets, and writing deadlines accurately, and you take pride in keeping things tidyYou enjoy applying rigorous research methods practically and you see writing not as decoration but as the thing that makes the insight usableYou’re comfortable writing for a variety of audiences, adjusting tone and framing while maintaining clarity and precision.Location and ways of workingYou'll be based in our London office, working in person at least four days a week, with one optional day remote. We believe in high-bandwidth collaboration and fast decision-making, so most of the work happens face-to-face.

Posted 13 days ago

Develop software, data engineering, and machine learning solutions by building production applications, data pipelines, and AI-powered analytics for a student marketplace platform.Build Something That Mattersnative has been building for ten years and still runs like a startup: small, fast, and unsentimental about how things get done. We run a managed marketplace that connects students, Students' Unions, universities and advertisers. We increase student engagement, we help Students' Unions fund themselves properly, and we give advertisers a measurable route to a student audience. The closer those three line up, the better the business works.We're looking for graduates who want to do real work immediately, learn at speed, and grow into something bigger.What we're looking forWe value clarity of thought, good judgement when the pressure's on, and the instinct to build structure where there isn't any. You might be right for this if:You think from first principles and build answers from the ground up, not from the borrowed oneYou can decide when there's no map, and you build structure where there isn't anyYou care that things are done properly. That's reason enough to do them properlyYou have range. Not just sharp on paper: you've done things that demanded resilience, judgement or initiativeWe're open to a wide range of degrees. Intellectual sharpness and structured thinking turn up often in engineering, maths, computer science, philosophy, languages or history, but not always, and not only there. If your path is less typical, tell us how it shaped the way you think and why that stands up.What you'll be working onThis is a broad build role. The work runs from the pipelines that move and model our data to the applications that put it in front of people. The mix of software engineering, data engineering, data science and analysis shifts week to week, and we expect you to move between all four. You'll be hands-on with:Shipping production Python services in FastAPI, internal tools and dashboards, and front-end work in Jinja, Tailwind and React, across Heroku and AWSBuilding and maintaining data pipelines in dbt and BigQueryThe models behind our student personas: clustering and scoring students on their interaction data, labelling it (sometimes with LLMs), and turning noisy signals into something commercially usefulIdentity stitching, so a student looks like one person across sources that don't agree out of the boxApplying our pseudonymisation and data minimisation practices as you build. You won't own this, but you'll be trusted to get it rightFinding what's slow, fragile or held together with tape, and fixing it because you were the one who noticedHow the work gets doneWe build with agentic coding tools, and you will too. This is not a perk and not a line about being comfortable with AI. It's how an engineer here ships in an afternoon what used to take a week.That raises the bar rather than lowering it. The model is fast and often wrong in ways that look right, so the job is judgement. You frame the problem and decide what a good answer looks like before you let the model near it. You treat what it gives you as a first draft to be checked, not an answer to be trusted, and you catch the version that compiles cleanly and is quietly broken. When you open a pull request, you own every line in it, including the ones you didn't type, and you can stand behind them with the tool closed.If that sounds like more work than writing it yourself, sometimes it is. The engineers who get the most out of these tools are the ones who were already rigorous. That rigour is what we're hiring for.Required skillsYou've excelled at something, and we're not precious about the form: first-class honours, a Dean's List, a research result, a project you couldn't leave alone. We're reading for rigour and clarity of thoughtYou write proper Python, not only notebook Python. At home exploring data with pandas and numpy, equally at home writing a small service someone else can run without you in the roomYou write SQL with intent. Not just queries that return the right rows, but ones that stay clear when the data's messier than the exampleYou've worked with real, messy data: designing a schema, cleaning a dataset that fought back, checking your results are actually true. Coursework, Kaggle, a personal project, whereverYou teach yourself the tool you need before anyone tells you to. Data side: BigQuery, dbt, Airflow, Docker. Software side: git, a web framework, getting something live on the cloudBonus points if you've built and shipped something end to end that other people used. A tool, an app, an API, a bot. Anything realProgressionThis is a six-month engagement, and we mean it as a proving ground for a permanent hire, not an internship and not a rotation. Do well and you move into a promoted, permanent role at the end of it.The trajectory is the offer here. You drop into live production from week one with real ownership, and the breadth is the point: in six months you'll have shipped across software, data and ML. That's rare this early, and almost impossible to get on a scheme that keeps you in one lane while it decides what to do with you.During the process you'll talk to grads who joined this way, so you hear how it actually went from them rather than from us.Location and ways of workingYou'll work from our London office at least four days a week, with one optional day remote. We move fast and decide fast, and most of that happens face to face.

Posted 13 days ago

Develop commercial data analysis and research skills by analysing survey and platform data, building insights, and supporting data-driven marketing decisions for student audiences.Build Something That Mattersnative has been building for ten years and still runs like a startup: small, fast, and unsentimental about how things get done. We run a managed marketplace that connects students, Students' Unions, universities and advertisers. We increase student engagement, we help Students' Unions fund themselves properly, and we give advertisers a measurable route to a student audience. The closer those three line up, the better the business works.Insights is where that audience becomes legible. We turn survey data, behavioural signals and platform data into the research brand partners buy and the segmentation that shapes how they reach students. We're looking for graduates who want real work immediately, learn at speed, and grow into something bigger.What we're looking forWe value clarity of thought, good judgement when the pressure's on, and the instinct to build structure where there isn't any.You might be right for this if:You think from first principles and build answers from the ground upYou can decide when there's no map, and you build structure where there isn't anyYou care that the work is right, so you check itYou have range. You've done real things that demanded resilience, judgement or initiativeWe're open to a wide range of degrees. Intellectual sharpness and structured thinking turn up most often in economics, statistics, the sciences, social sciences, geography, maths or computer science, though strong thinkers come from plenty of other backgrounds too. If your path is less typical, tell us how it shaped the way you think and why that stands up.What you'll be working onThis is a broad data analyst role. The work runs from the survey and platform data we collect to the reports and analysis that go in front of partners. The mix of data analysis, survey research and visualisation shifts week to week, and we expect you to move across all of it.You'll be hands-on with:The analysis behind our insights, from raw data to the charts and the written findingSurvey data from Campus Voice and our commissioned studies: cleaning it, weighting it, and reading what it actually saysSQL against our BigQuery platform, pulling and shaping the datasets the team runs onClear visualisations for our reports, and the charts and numbers that feed our commercial pitches, from local advertisers to national brandsCrosstabbing survey and behavioural data against our student personas and segments, so a commercial pitch can show an advertiser exactly who it's reaching and how the segments differKeeping survey instruments, notebooks and documentation in a state where the research runs again next quarter without an archaeology digWorking with the engineering team to sharpen the datasets and pipelines the insights work leans on, and flagging what's slow or fragile because you're the one using itHow the work gets doneWe build with agentic coding tools, and you will too. It's how an analyst here turns a question into a checked answer in an afternoon, work that used to take a week.Used well, these tools ask more of you. The model is fast and often wrong in ways that look right: a query that runs clean and returns the wrong number, a chart that's plausible and misleading. So the job is judgement. You frame the question and decide what a good answer looks like before you let the model near it. You treat what it gives you as a first draft and check it, and you catch the analysis that's confident and quietly wrong. You own the output, including the parts the model wrote, and you can defend it with the tool closed.If that sounds like more work than just doing a small analysis by hand, sometimes it is. That's the trade for everything larger that now fits in a day. The analysts who get the most out of these tools are the ones who were already rigorous. That rigour is what we're hiring for.Required skillsYou've excelled at something, and we're not precious about the form: first-class honours, a Dean's List, a research result, a project you couldn't leave alone. We're reading for rigour and clarity of thoughtYou can reason statistically: you understand sample bias and weighting, what a significance test is actually telling you, and how to interpret a regression. From coursework, a competition, or a real projectYou're commercially curious: genuinely interested in how brands reach audiences and what makes a finding worth paying forYou've worked with real, messy data: cleaning datasets, validating a result, designing a schema that holds. This can be from coursework, a competition, a personal project, whereverYou write proper Python, in pandas and numpy, in addition to being able to structure it into functions and shared utilities that the next person can runYou write SQL that stays correct when real data is messier than the textbook example: the duplicates, the NULLs, and the joins that quietly break a query that looked fineYou can take a result and make it clear, in a sentence and in a chart, for someone who wasn't in the data with youYou teach yourself the tool you need before anyone tells you to: BigQuery, dbt, a plotting library, git, survey toolingBonus points if you've taken a piece of analysis end to end that other people used. A study, a dashboard, a report, a model. Anything realProgressionThis is a six-month engagement, and we mean it as a proving ground for a permanent hire. Do well and you move into a promoted, permanent role at the end of it.The trajectory is the offer here. You're in live commercial work from week one, with real ownership of analysis that partners read and pay for, and the breadth is the point: in six months you'll have run analysis end to end, cut survey data against our personas for commercial pitches, and seen your work reach brands. That range this early is rare, and almost impossible to get on a scheme that keeps you in one lane while it decides what to do with you.During the process you'll talk to grads who joined this way, so you hear how it actually went, straight from them.

Posted 13 days ago