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Visual & Digital Resources Peer Consultant

VADR Peer Consultants

The Visual and Digital Resources (VADR) student peer consultants offers valuable support to teachers with peer-to-peer consultations to students for the visual and digital literacy of their academic work.

Selected student consultants, trained in multimedia design, data visualisation, and digital content creation, provide one-on-one assistance to their peers. This allows teachers to incorporate more visual and digital elements into their course assignments and activities, without worrying about the burden to needing to offer intensive assistance to students.

RECRUITING CiC Visual and Digital Resources Peer Consultants
(Sem 2, 2025-26)

Visual and Digital Resources (VADR) under the Communication Intensive Courses (CIC) initiative at the Centre for Applied English Studies (CAES) is now recruiting high-calibre Year 2, 3, 4 and 5 undergraduate peer consultants for Semester 2 of the 2025-26 academic year. Students from all disciplines are welcome to apply. Successful candidates will have excellent visual and digital skills, and they will be enthusiastic about helping others communicate effectively. Those hired will receive training in tutoring and communication skills and be supported by professional language instructors in their work.

Check out what we do in the video below!

REQUIREMENTS

Please read the following information before submission, kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.

NOTE: Full-time undergraduate and taught postgraduate students should work no more than 15 hours per week during teaching semesters. Students who plan to take appointments from multiple departments, please ensure your total working hours stay within this limit.

What visual and digital skills are we looking for?

We are looking for students who have expertise with some software in each of the two areas below:

Video editing software E.g. CapCut, DaVinci Resolve 18, iMovie, InShot, Adobe Premier
Visual and Poster Design software such as PowerPoint, Canva, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign

How much is the pay?

Competitive compensation commensurate with qualifications will be offered.

When is the training?

Initial training will be held in mid-Jan 2026; training time is counted as part of consultants’ contracted working hours.

When is the Interview?

The week of Nov 9 2025

When would I begin working, and what are the working hours?

New consultants will start working from mid Jan 2026 till early May 2026, and will work about 8 hours a week. A typical weekly work schedule includes training sessions (e.g. how to give feedback on student work, video filming, video and sound editing, assessment briefings), delivering workshops, providing assessment feedback, short administrative tasks, promotion work, and other ad hoc tasks. Consultants should be able to commit to serving for at least one semester.

Are the working hours flexible?

We will arrange workshops and training sessions to fit consultants’ schedules. Pre-consultation preparation work, consultant-development activities, and promotion work are scheduled flexibly.

How do I apply?

All applicants must submit the following items by 23:59 on 2 Nov 2025 to the submission button below.

Self-Introduction Video

1. 1-minute

2. All about you

3. English

Samples

1. Send us at least 2 examples of your past Visual & digital work

Photo of Woman Writing on Tablet Computer While Using Laptop

Paperwork

1. Completed Application Form

2. Your resume

3. Latest evidence of academic results at HKU

Submission here

Who We Are

Japar, Ignatius De Loyola Dominique (Ilo)

BEng, Faculty of Engineering

Year 3

Leung, Tsz Lok Cody

BA, Faculty of Arts

Year 4

Aditi Kumar

BBA, Faculty of Business and Economics

Year 3

Oluwatisheyitoju Oluwatoniloba Iji (Tishe)

BEng (BME), Faculty of Engineering

Year 4

Cheng, Yu Pin Celeste

BBA, Faculty of Business and Economics

Year 3

Aamara Telleria Lambkin

BBA, Faculty of Business and Economics

(2024 – 2025)

Wong Lok Hei, Kennedy

BASc, Faculty of Social Sciences

(2025)

Ming How Chai

BEng (CompSc), Faculty of Engineering

(2024)

Peng, Zhentong Stella

BSocSc, Faculty of Social Science

(2022 – 2024)

Hai Yin Xiang, Allie

BA, Faculty of Arts

(2023 – 2024)

Jazmyn Jiahui Shi

BASc (GHD), Faculty of Medicine

(2023 – 2024)

Kim, Sum Yuet Karis

BEcon & Fin, Faculty of Business & Economics

(2022 – 2024)

Diya Dinesh

BBA (IBGM), Faculty of Business and Economics

(2023 – 2024)

Hyejee Lee

BBiomedSc, Faculty of Medicine

(2022 – 2023)

What We Do

Draft Feedback

VADR Provides different types of feedback such as whole-class feedback, in-person group feedback, online screen-recorded feedback, and more. This really helps students make final adjustments to their assessments before submission.

Poster Design

Our poster design workshops are tailored to each course we support. In it, we present a framework students should keep in mind to create an informational yet appealing poster in line with assessment criteria.

CapCut

We deliver workshops on how to use basic editing techniques using CapCut. This includes overlays, subtitles, audio manipulation, cutting, timeline management, and more!

Infographic Design

Some courses require students to create and present data on infographics. The workshop we create for these courses keep in mind the intended audience of the infographic to inform students in best practices.

Canva

Our workshop on Canva helps familiarize students with the Canva workspace. It targets specific skills needed to excel in a course’s assignment.

How to Film

This workshop targets students who may not have any filming experience but are requested to create a short film for their course. It covers areas such as equipment, framing and composition, some common rules in filming, and more.

Storyboarding

Related to the filming workshop, our session on storyboarding helps students prepare for the actual filming of their assessment. It is a useful session which guides students to work through the complexity of creating a short film in a structured manner.

Events

VADR also often presents at big events like symposia, Join the Conversation talks, and more. We do promotional events such as the student festival as well.

Creating Thumbnails

In our thumbnail creation workshop, we ensure students can create an attention-grabbing thumbnail for their YouTube video submissions.

Podcasts

When a course is running a podcasting assessment, our workshop can help with informing students on the basics of podcasting and how to manage your spoken language.

Pitch Deck Design

In the business world, pitch decks are an important vehicle to attract investors. Our workshop helps students understand how to tell a story with your presentation.

Presentation Slide Design

Designing slides can be quite difficult, especially with the samples you get to see in university lectures. In our slide design workshop, we help students apply the Assertion Evidence Approach to their slide design.

Testimonials of Our Team

“Working with this team has been the best experience in university. Everyone is very supportive – the dynamics amongst us and between us and the supervisors are very good. We feel valued in this team and is preparing me for going into the workplace and working within a team in society.”

Medical Student

Year 4 (2024)

“I realized that failure is actually not such a big deal. I was provided a space to make mistakes, I realized that it is not life-or-death if I fail or mess something up. This made me more confident in myself and I don’t worry as much about failing. So now, it is easier for me to communicate and interact with others, which sets a ground for future interactions with others because I got to learn it at this age.”

Social Sciences Student

Year 3 (2023)

“I am proud of the visual and digital skills that I have, and because of this title as a peer consultant, it shows that I am well equipped with this knowledge. Because I have the things I learnt in training to back up what I share with my groupmates and peers, I feel more confident in what I’m sharing.”

Business Student

Year 3 (2024)

“I didn’t expect to learn as much as I did. The workshops and trainings are really good. I hadn’t done a poster design before and never did a storyboard in my life, but learning from the workshops helped me to teach it to others, too.”

Engineering Student

Year 2 (2024)

“Working as a peer consultant helps with understanding assessment requirements better. It helped me to understand what the teacher really needs and what they are looking for in video assignments.”

Arts Student

Year 2 (2024)

“We learned as from a teachers’ perspective, and it actually made me a better student in class by paying more attention or being more engaged. Also, I learn from what teachers are looking for in poster designs by giving comments to other students. So for very good ones, when I look at it, I learn from it. When I posters that don’t perform well, I also think about how they could improve. It actually helps with our own assignments.”

Medical Student

Year 4 (2024)

“It has improved my communication skills drastically. Now, in group discussions, I can take the lead more, communicate my ideas, convince them about going in a certain direction, asking them, ‘How about you? What do you think?’”

Engineering Student

Year 1 (2024)

“I learned how to give direction and facilitate discussion with my peers. I was trained to be supportive of my fellow classmates as a peer leader without being overbearing, which was consistent with what I learned in my management class – I learned to give direction and not the solution.

Business Student

Year 3 (2024)

“From my experience giving feedback, I can now more easily read others’ feedback for me. It helped me to receive critical feedback better, too, whether from my peers or from my professors and teaching assistants.”

Engineering Student

Year 3 (2024)

Visual & Digital Resources Peer Consultant

VADR Peer Consultants

REQUIREMENTS

What visual and digital skills are we looking for?

How much is the pay?

When is the training?

When is the Interview?

When would I begin working, and what are the working hours?

Are the working hours flexible?

How do I apply?

Self-Introduction Video

Samples

Paperwork

Who We Are

What We Do

Testimonials of Our Team

See us in action!