Part-Time Receptionist & Station Administrator

News Corporation; Drogheda; Hybrid; EUR 17,000 - 22,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday entitlement

Maternity leave

Paternity leave

Bike to Work

Training access

Job summary

News UK & Ireland in Drogheda seeks a friendly Part-Time Receptionist to manage front-of-house operations, support our broadcast production team and handle essential daily financial administrative tasks. Working hours: 2 days per week with flexibility for holiday cover.

You will greet guests, manage calls, process classifieds and community notices, handle cash, and assist with daily reporting and bingo administration. Based in Drogheda, this role supports LMFM and the production team.

Qualifications

• Welcoming, organised and reliable receptionist with front-of-house experience.
• Experience managing cash and daily financial tasks.
• Strong telephone and face-to-face customer service skills.
• Ability to manage multiple administrative tasks and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Greet show guests and manage front-of-house operations.
• Answer high-volume calls and pass listener comments.
• Assist with office admin, newspapers, and routine system backups.
• Monitor bingo line, call listeners, verify tickets.
• Process bookings and payments for Classifieds and Community Diary.
• Update Community Diary by 11:30 AM.
• Print daily broadcast and timing reports.

Skills

Organisational skills

Customer service

Phone manners

Cash handling

Office administration

Email management

Web updates

Tools

Basic software

Job description

Part-Time Receptionist & Station Administrator

Location:

Drogheda

Department

LMFM

Salary Range:

Not Specified

Advertising End Date:

23 Sep 2026

Job Description

Part-Time Receptionist & Station Administrator

Working Hours: 2 days per week (with flexibility required for holiday cover)

Your role: LMFM Radio is seeking a welcoming, organised, and reliable Part-Time Receptionist to manage front-of-house operations, support our broadcast production team, and handle essential daily financial administrative tasks.

Day to day you will:

Front Desk & Guest Hospitality

• Greet show guests warmly upon arrival, providing refreshments and accommodating them prior to going on air.

• Answer high-volume incoming telephone calls, accurately passing along listener comments and messages for show agendas.

• Assist with general office admin, including managing daily newspapers and running routine system backups.

Radio Bingo Administration

• Monitor the bingo line, call listeners, and verify winning tickets.

• Update bingo numbers online promptly and email winners and updated numbers directly to the production team.

• Prepare bingo readout sheets for presenters and manage over-the-counter bingo book sales.

Classifieds & Production Support

• Process bookings and take payments for Classifieds (Community Diary, Family Notices, and Job Search Ads).

• Update and finalize the Community Diary daily, delivering it to the production team strictly by 11:30 AM.

• Process funeral notices and double-check that all notice items are fully invoiced.

• Print daily broadcast and timing reports for presenters.

Finance & Cash Handling

• Process incoming payments for the Sales team.

• Manage and reconcile petty cash.

• Prepare and make routine bank lodgements.

What we're looking for from you:

• Strong organisational skills with tight deadline management (e.g., morning production cut-offs).

• Warm, professional phone manners and strong face-to-face customer service skills.

• Trustworthy cash-handling experience (petty cash, daily sales, banking).

• Proficiency in basic software, web updates, and email management.

We are Onic:

We create great audio and digital products. Our live radio and podcasts, along with our web and social pages, play a massive part in our listeners’ lives. We engage, we inform and we entertain with our market leading products. In Ireland we own or represent stations in all main urban centres, and we create award winning solutions for our commercial partners. We are also part of a wider group with radio stations like Virgin Radio, talkSPORT, Times Radio and talkRADIO which are redefining speech broadcasting on digital audio platforms, connected TV and beyond.

Life at News:

At News UK & Ireland, our people are our heartbeat – they are the driving force behind our brands, and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion; we strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content, and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK, supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff.

In addition, we also offer:

• 25 days holiday per year (pro rata)

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks

• 'Bikes for Work' scheme

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.