£12.71 per hour + £1.53 holiday pay
Advertising End Date
11 Oct 2026

Role & Department Overview

The GROW Your Future team within the Careers and Employability Services are looking for a current Lancaster University student to join the team on a flexible, part-time basis as a GROW Your Future Marketing Assistant.  
 
GROW Your Future (GYF) is a Widening Participation (WP) initiative, designed to support students from underrepresented and/or disadvantaged backgrounds, by providing a gateway to accessing additional targeted careers support and activity. GYF offers opportunities through a variety of initiatives, and aims to be a supportive student community.

This is an exciting and varied role working with a supportive team developing GROW Your Future. It is an opportunity to develop and evidence a range of employability skills needed for any future career, as well as contribute to the GROW Your Future community. 
 
 
Preferred start date: 2nd of November 2026
 
Expected end date: 31st of July 2027
 
Interview date: 20th of October 2026
 
Weekly hours: 3- 5 hours per week
 
Location: Remotely (in the UK) and on the Lancaster University campus

Job Description

As a GROW Your Future Marketing Assistant, you will support the GROW Your Future team by focusing on the student experience, requiring marketing and design experience to promote GYF to the student body, and the many activities this includes to the GYF student community.   
 
Tasks are likely to include:
  
  • Creating content and maintaining the Instagram channel which provides vital information about GROW Your Future to our student community @LUGrowYourFuture 
  • Managing marketing campaigns, and developing the GYF brand across campus, as well as creating other promotional material through Canva 
  • Developing the GYF student community through the Instagram page  
  • Gathering student feedback 

Person Specification

Essential:
 
  • Current student at Lancaster University 
  • A current member of GROW Your Future (to find out more and see if you are eligible to join visit https://portal.lancaster.ac.uk/ask/grow-your-future/)
  • Skilled user of social media, with a focus on Instagram
  • Good working knowledge of Canva
  • Able to create engaging social media content including images and graphics through Canva working within our GYF branding guidelines
  • Strong organisational and time management skills 
  • Desire and ability to work both in a team and independently  
Desirable:
 
  • An interest in and commitment to promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion 
 Working in this role will help develop the following skills and experience:
 
  • Multi-tasking
  • Organisation
  • Collaboration
  • Analysing
  • Time Management
  • Written communication
If you have any questions about this role, please contact Hannah Bell, Careers WP Manager - [email protected]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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.

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