Campus Assistants Recruitment 2025

If you are interested your application has to be submitted online once the application process opens. You will only be able to submit a single application. In addition to your personal details (including current GPA), you will be required to provide short statements (of 100 words approx.) in support of your application.

Please note the following:

• All questions need to be answered. If you feel a question does not apply to you, please enter “not applicable” or an equivalent expression.
• Do not leave the application to the last day and do prepare the questions in advance
• If you receive an error or have any difficulty please email (opens in a new window)estates.recruitment@ucd.ie.

Please note that If you are shortlisted, interviews will take place the week of March 25th (IN PERSON). 

A Campus Assistant will be a member of the Estate Services team charged with supporting those living and studying on campus. The primary focus of the role will be to develop community and run events and experiences for those living on campus.

Campus Assistants will also fulfil operational duties such as delivering post, fire checks and assisting with events around residences and the rest of the campus

All Campus Assistants appointed in the first wave of appointments will be offered a bedroom in a shared bathroom facility on campus but they will not be required to accept it. 

However, due to the evening and weekend nature of many of the shifts CAs must ensure they can efficiently travel to and from their place of work.

It will be possible for CAs with accessibility requirements to request an accessible room.

Successful CAs can request other types of on campus bedrooms (eg Ensuite) during the appointment process. It should be noted that rent will be payable in line with the relevant price bracket of that room and that these requests will be subject to availability.

No, Campus Assistants will not be required to be on-call overnight or at weekends.

Campus Assistant work will be quite flexible with some hours linked to a regular rota and other hours offered on an ad hoc basis. Once the roster has been published you will be required to swap a shift that no longer suits you. You do not have to accept any ad hoc shift that becomes available.

CAs will be paid hourly. It has been estimated that a CA who works an average of 12 hours per week during the 33 weeks of the main rota and an additional 100 (approx) hours of extra work during high demand periods such as arrivals and UCD Open Day etc will earn €6-7,000 over the course of the year.

No, all Campus Assistants will be paid by the hour for the work they do.

€14.00 per hour is the current rate of pay. Pay rates are subject to periodic review.

Only full-time students who will be studying for the duration of 2025/26 can apply to become Campus Assistants at present. This may be reviewed in future years.

Campus Assistants will be offered a room in a shared bathroom facility. The room will be assigned randomly and they will not necessarily live with other Campus Assistants, but some CAs may live together. It is not a requirement for Campus Assistants to live on campus.

Campus Assistants' default place of work will be the UCD Village or Blackrock Services desk.

During each shift, CAs may work throughout the UCD Campus. Locations are generally provided in shift descriptions.

The main role of the CAs is to create events and communities, teams will be assigned/created based on people’s interests e.g. sport or culture.

What will the Sports team do?

The reslife sports team will be charged with creating regular sports experiences for residents. This may include things like weekly 5 aside football, basketball tournaments, pool tournaments, GAA taster games and much more.

The team will be expected to create a mix of regular, scheduled activity and some one-off tournaments and feed information to the Reslife Coordinators and social media team about their plans.  The team will also be expected to make relationships with other like minded groups on campus, like sports clubs, who Reslife could work with to have collaborative events and enhance the overall student experience.

What will the Arts team do?

The Reslife arts team will focus on creating arts experiences for residents on campus. This could include working on the Reslife Art group programme which may include drawing, painting knitting, beading and other art forms. The Arts team also has some involvement in ‘The Secret Lake’ arts magazine.

The team will be expected to create a mix of regular, scheduled activity and some
experiences or trips, e.g. to exhibitions or galleries, and feed information to the admin and social media team about their plans. The team will also be expected to make relationships with other like minded groups on campus, like UCD Drawsoc and UCD Music Soc, who Reslife could work with to have collaborative events and enhance the overall student experience.

What will the Wellbeing team do?

The Reslife Wellbeing team will focus on creating events and experiences which could enhance wellbeing on campus. Events could include Woodland walks, Sea Swimming,coffee mornings, Mindfulness, Meditation and ResLife’s Baking Club!

The team will be expected to create a mix of regular, scheduled activity and some
experiences or trips e.g. booking motivational speakers or attending a wellbeing festival/event off campus, and feed information to the admin and social media team about their plans. The team will also be expected to make relationships with other like minded groups on campus who Reslife could work with to have collaborative events and enhance the overall student experience.

What will the Culture team do?

The Reslife Culture team will focus on creating events and experiences to highlight and celebrate the different cultures represented on campus. Events could include the celebrating of national holidays of different countries, a culture week and Irish Cultural experience nights like a Ceili and food experiences.

The team will be expected to create a mix of regular, scheduled activity and some
experiences or trips and feed information to the admin and social media team about their plans. The team will also be expected to make relationships with other like minded groups on campus, like Tradsoc and Africasoc, who Reslife could work with to have collaborative events and enhance the overall student experience.

What will the Social Media/Content Creation team do?

The Reslife Social Media/Content Creation team will focus on the development and maintenance of the Reslife Social Media channels. Instagram and tiktok, including the collection and creation of content to promote events and the collection of content at events for event records.

Separately the team will create regular content related to tips and tricks for living in Res The team will be expected to develop a distinct social media style for the year and to ensure regular and impactful content is published on a regular basis which adds value to the residential experience and ensures students are informed of the opportunities around them.

What will the Event Planning/Admin/Tech support team ( A.K.A Core event support) do?

The ResLife Event logistics and tech support team will be a small team dedicated to ensuring that events have exactly what they need in each space. It will involve maintaining the technical equipment owned by the Reslife team overall and ensure that it is in place and ready to be used on a weekly basis (eg PA system and TVs for weekly Bingo, PA system for Quiz night etc.) The team may also ensure that TV and Gaming systems in the reslife spaces are working and ensure to log any maintenance issues as they arise.

The team will also organise the larger events, like the talent show, game shows and much more.

The team will work with other teams to assess requirements and support them for their events.

What will the Gaming team do?

The Reslife gaming team will focus on creating fun and inclusive gaming experiences for residents living onsite. This may include computer games, board games and any other types of the games the team may wish to include.

The team will be expected to create a mix of regular, scheduled activity and some one-off experiences and feed information to the admin and social media team about their plans. The team will also be expected to make relationships with other like minded groups on campus, like gamesoc, who Reslife could work with to have collaborative events and enhance the overall student experience.

What will the Blackrock team do?

Given the size of the Blackrock campus it is proposed to have a diverse Reslife team dedicated to providing a bespoke programme of events to the residents of the Blackrock Campus. This team will be expected to create a mix of regular, scheduled activity and some one-off experiences and feed information to the admin and social media team about their plans.

The team will be expected to liaise with the Belfield teams around using their skill sets to support events on the Blackrock campus and ultimately create a mix of events which reflects the multiple cultures represented in the Blackrock residences.

No, it is envisaged that the CA teams will overlap on a regular basis. Not all teams will be busy every week and while each event may need an “expert” to coordinate it, in general most people can help with most events so the rota will be designed to spread out the work.

If you are a member of a proactive team the opportunity will be there to create extra work within your team by designing and hosting regular events/experiences.

A number of CAs will be rostered to provide general operations support to the Village
Contact Centre/Duty Manager in the evenings. This team will be assigned tasks as required e.g. post, fire checks, social space monitoring, noise complaints etc.

Other shifts may also be available on an ad hoc basis to support the overall work of Estate Services.

Incoming first year students are not currently eligible to apply.

Postgraduate students are eligible to apply.

Candidates will be assessed based on their response to an application form on the Estates Services Website. A minimum pass/fail criteria will be applied to all questions and a scoring matrix will be applied to Questions 7-10.

The mix of the team will also be considered to ensure a mix of interests (listed above.) and compliance with UCD’s approach to Equality Diversity and Inclusion.