Portering & Post Assistant

Job description

Post title: Portering and Post Assistant

SBU/Department: Department of Estates / Campus Services

FTE: 1.0 FTE (working 37 hours per week)

Duration of contract: Permanent

Annual Leave: 25 days plus standard public holidays and an additional 4 days including the closure of our office between Christmas and New Year

Location: College Lane campus, Hatfield

The Portering and Post Assistant will work within the Estates department, delivering portering and postal services to all UH colleagues.

The successful candidate must be customer service focused and have a proactive attitude. The individual should be flexible with a keen willingness to learn and develop across the Facilities Team.

Main duties and responsibilities

The successful candidate will be working in the team which completes a range of Facilities Tasks. The tasks can include:

• Portering: To be involved in manual handling activities across the University, these can include office moves, classrooms resets, or the moving of equipment.
• Post and Goods: To support with the delivering of post and goods across the
• Signage: To support with the delivery of the temporary and reactive signage
• Audits: To complete a range of audits requested by the Facilities Team such as building audits, or utilisation audits.
• Events: The role involves supporting with a range of university events from setting up, event support, and clear down.
• Space Management: The role involves supporting on large removal projects and space management tasks.

Skills and experience required

The successful candidate must have an excellent customer service manner. They will have the ability to follow a scheduled work pattern but take a proactive approach to tasks. The role involves working in a team, but the individual should be comfortable working on their own.

You should have the ability to complete the manual handling tasks, and an attention to detail for the auditing part of the role. The successful individual will have a can-do attitude and should be able demonstrate a willingness to support across a range of tasks and activities.

A driving license is an essential requirement for this job
Qualifications

You will need to have proven professional experience or the ability to demonstrate you can complete all parts of the job. You should have good communication skills.

It is a desirable to have a minimum of 5 GCSEs, including Mathematics and English at grade C/4 or above/

Please view the job description and person specification for a full list of the duties and essential criteria.Please attach a personal statement showing clearly how your skills and experience match the Person Specification.

Internal applicants - please ensure you apply via your employee self-service portal.

We regret that we are unable to offer UKVI sponsorship for this post; applicants will either hold UK Right to Work or demonstrate access to UK Right to Work before an offer is made.

Contact details/informal enquiries

Georganna Shepherd, Events & Logistics Manager, [email protected].

Closing date: 29th September 2026

Interview date: Approximately Monday 5th October (second interview may be required)
Reference number: REQ000838

Date advert placed: 15th September 2026

Our vision is to transform lives: UH is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and building a diverse community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of their protected characteristics, and recognise there are different ways applicants may achieve the criteria in this document. We offer a range of employee benefits including generous annual leave, flexible location opportunities within the UK, discounted Sports Village memberships and free Active Staff sessions, personal and professional development and family-friendly policies. #GoHerts