£12.21 per hour + £1.47 holiday pay
Advertising End Date
14 Oct 2025

Role & Department Overview

Facilities undertake all property services on behalf of the University, including cleaning, landscaping, security, accommodation, hospitality, sport, capital development and general maintenance of the Estate.

Each year a utilisation survey of central teaching space is carried out, to help understand how rooms are used and inform strategic decisions on teaching space provision.

Surveyors are required to carry out occupancy headcounts in seminar rooms and lecture theatres.

The survey will take place over a one-week period (Week 5), during core teaching hours 9-6pm.

 Start Date: 3rd November 2025

End Date: 7th November 2025

Interview Date: Monday 20th October 2025

Location: On the Lancaster University campus

Hours per week:  Several 4 or 5 hour shifts

Job Description

 Surveyors will: 

  • Be provided with a list of teaching spaces and will visit each space once every hour.
  • Carry out a headcount of people in the room and record the number on the survey sheet.
  • Be available to work several 4 hour (9-1pm) or 5 hour (1pm-6pm) shifts during Week 5 (Week commencing 3rd November 2025)

Person Specification

The successful candidates will be: 

  • Have good communication skills.
  • Reliable
  • Have good spoken English.
  • Be confident dealing with people.
  • Have good knowledge of campus.
  • No experience necessary
  • The role requires the post holder to be able to quickly move between rooms in different areas of the campus in several buildings and levels so a moderate level of physical fitness and mobility is required. 
 

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

  • Collaboration
  • Flexibility
  • Organisation
  • Perseverance
  • Research
  • Time Management
 
 

You are required to submit a cover letter to support your application. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

Please note: Unless specified otherwise in the advert wording, this role is only open to individuals living in the UK.

Under the terms of this work, we endeavour to provide the advertised number of hours however, hours are not guaranteed and that work may cease if there is a fall in demand. 

Adverts that display a closing date should be treated as a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

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Help and advice on making applications can be found on the Lancaster University Careers pages. Visit www.lancaster.ac.uk/careers.

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