ERS Admin Support
Closing Date: 21/09/2025

The Employment and Recruitment Service (ERS) recruit for a range of part-time and temporary positions at Lancaster University and within the local community.

Our aim is to help Lancaster University students develop employment skills through a variety work opportunities.

Working as Admin Support, you will provide administrative support to the ERS team on high volume recruitment, as well as answer queries from students and managers. 

In addition, you will assist with right to work checking appointments, which form part of a 'Welcome to Lancaster University' induction, designed to ensure that our new starters have all the information they need before commencing their new role. 

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys liaising with customers or clients, with good administration and organisation skills, who also has a keen eye for detail! 

Training will be provided to support you in learning the skills required in the role. The professional skills you will develop working with the team will be highly transferable to future graduate employment.

If you have any questions please contact: [email protected] 

More information about the ERS can be found on our website: www.lancaster.ac.uk/ers

Preferred start date: 29^th September 2025 

Expected end date: 7^th November 2025

Location: On the Lancaster University campus 

• Responding to queries 
  
  
• Supporting the ERS team on recruitment administration and systems maintenance 
  
  
• Representing the team at ERS Drop-Ins and Pop-Ups: providing an outstanding front-line service to students
  
  
• Keeping records up to date on our system
  
  
• Conduct Right to Work appointments for new starters to the Employment & Recruitment Service in person at the Lancaster University campus as well as digitally over Teams
  
  
• Ensure an effective, efficient and compliant checking of documentation takes place for the purposes of Right to Work
  
  
• Provide a short induction for new starters at the time of the appointment
  
  
• Undertake post appointment administration 

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate: 

• A high level of accuracy in complex administrative tasks
• Good organisation skills
• Excellent communication skills, and be able to effectively communicate with a wide range of people
• Competent IT skills (Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook)
• Reliability, and the ability to meet strict deadlines
• Ability to stay calm under pressure
• Accurate, organised and methodical approach to work
• A confident communication manner

Desirable

• Previous experience of working in a customer facing environment

Working in this role will help develop the following skills and experience:

• Analysing 
• Business Development
• Collaboration Commercial awareness
• Decisiveness
• Emotional intelligence
• Exercising professional judgement
• Flexibility
• Integrity
• Interpersonal sensitivity
• Knowledge Sharing
• Leadership
• Multi-tasking
• Organisation
• Resilience
• Self-motivation
• Teamwork
• Time Management
• Verbal communication
•  Written communication