Part-Time Receptionist & Station Administrator

LMFM Radio; Drogheda; On-site; EUR 17,000 - 22,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday (pro rata)

Maternity leave 18 weeks

Paternity leave 2 weeks

LinkedIn Learning access

Job summary

LMFM Radio is seeking a welcoming, organised 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 cover front desk, guest hospitality, answer calls, assist with admin, monitor bingo line, process classifieds bookings, and handle petty cash and banking. We offer 25 days holiday pro rata and training opportunities.

Qualifications

• Strong organisational skills with tight deadline management.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Greet show guests warmly, provide refreshments and assist before going on air.
• Answer high-volume calls and relay listener comments for show agendas.
• Assist general office admin, including newspapers and system backups.
• Monitor bingo line, call listeners, verify tickets, update numbers online.
• Process bookings and payments for Classifieds; finalize Community Diary daily by 11:30 AM.
• Print daily broadcast and timing reports for presenters.
• Process incoming payments for Sales; manage petty cash and routine bank lodgements.

Skills

Organisational skills

Phone manners

Cash handling

Customer service

Tools

Basic software

Web updates

Email management

Job description

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.
• 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.

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
• 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.