Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.

Our greatest impact on society is through inspiring and educating creative, inquisitive and critically engaged minds. We have a reputation for authentic, strengths-based access initiatives, supporting participation, engagement, and progression for all students.

We recognise that individual student needs vary greatly and that in addition to our universal student supports, dedicated support for complex additional needs is hugely beneficial in ensuring student success. Our Maynooth Access Programme (MAP) Student Advisors are a key part of how we support the access, retention, and success of students from groups identified in the National Access Plan 2022 -2028 (NAP) as having low participation in higher education. These groups include students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds, mature students, further education award holders, lone parents, refugees and protection applicants, care-experienced students, students with disabilities, and members of the Traveller and Roma communities.

MAP Student Advisors provide tailored, student-centred guidance and support through both one-to-one and group settings. They assist students identified in the NAP as having low participation in higher education in navigating university life and conduct individual needs assessments to identify additional supports as needed, to help students thrive. The MAP Student Advisor role involves assessing, coordinating, and ensuring integrated delivery of a broad range of internal and external academic, personal and financial supports, for students from NAP priority groups. MAP Student Advisors work collaboratively with colleagues across the University and with external stakeholders. This post is a MAP Student Advisor role with a particular focus on assistive technology within the wider student advisory service.

Reporting to the MAP Student Advisory Manager within the Maynooth Access Programme (MAP), MAP Student Advisors are based in the Maynooth Access Office as part of a multidisciplinary team that includes outreach and student support professionals, clinical and technical specialists, and administrative staff. While MAP Student Advisors currently report to the MAP Student Advisory Manager, the breadth of engagement with colleagues across the university means that reporting lines can change in line with future organisational/structural reviews and developments as the service expands and develops.

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.

Our greatest impact on society is through inspiring and educating creative, inquisitive and critically engaged minds. We have a reputation for authentic, strengths-based access initiatives, supporting participation, engagement, and progression for all students.

We recognise that individual student needs vary greatly and that in addition to our universal student supports, dedicated support for complex additional needs is hugely beneficial in ensuring student success. Our Maynooth Access Programme (MAP) Student Advisors are a key part of how we support the access, retention, and success of students from groups identified in the National Access Plan 2022 -2028 (NAP) as having low participation in higher education. These groups include students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds, mature students, further education award holders, lone parents, refugees and protection applicants, care-experienced students, students with disabilities, and members of the Traveller and Roma communities.

MAP Student Advisors provide tailored, student-centred guidance and support through both one-to-one and group settings. They assist students identified in the NAP as having low participation in higher education in navigating university life and conduct individual needs assessments to identify additional supports as needed, to help students thrive. The MAP Student Advisor role involves assessing, coordinating, and ensuring integrated delivery of a broad range of internal and external academic, personal and financial supports, for students from NAP priority groups. MAP Student Advisors work collaboratively with colleagues across the University and with external stakeholders. This post is a MAP Student Advisor role with a particular focus on assistive technology within the wider student advisory service.

Reporting to the MAP Student Advisory Manager within the Maynooth Access Programme (MAP), MAP Student Advisors are based in the Maynooth Access Office as part of a multidisciplinary team that includes outreach and student support professionals, clinical and technical specialists, and administrative staff. While MAP Student Advisors currently report to the MAP Student Advisory Manager, the breadth of engagement with colleagues across the university means that reporting lines can change in line with future organisational/structural reviews and developments as the service expands and develops.