Marketing and Communications Officer

Salary: Grade 5, point 18 -23 (subject to experience) £26,816 – £30,196 (pro-rata applied)

 Contract Type: Term Time Only plus 2 weeks (including GCSE results day and the day before) 36 hours 40 minutes a week

Contract term:  Permanent

Contract Start Date: As soon as possible

About the role:

We are seeking someone passionate about marketing, organised, and eager to learn. This role offers hands-on experience for someone looking to grow in marketing. The Marketing and Communications Officer will support the school’s communication across several channels including social media, website content, newsletters and printed publications. The postholder will contribute towards all aspects of marketing at the school and ensure all content aligns with the school’s brand values, further enhancing its profile. You will be a creative storyteller and support the planning and production of content for effective tone of voice.

 Working with the Digital Creative Services Team, the postholder will support the implementation of the strategy and ensure the school is promoted to all audiences. The Marketing and Communications Officer will lead by example, actively promoting the school and building strong relationships with staff, feeder primary schools and all external stakeholders.

 It is essential that the postholder is organised, excellent at multi-tasking, works flexibly and has a ‘can do’ attitude.

 The post-holder will be required to undertake appropriate training where offered to ensure that skills remain up to date.

 About the school: 

 Our Mission

Our mission is to be a caring, safe and supportive learning community that positively transforms the lives of our students.

We aim to deliver the highest possible standards of education for our students and provide them with the knowledge, skills, attributes and habits that will enable them to achieve their ‘personal best’ and will fully equip them to be successful lifelong learners and global citizens.

 Our Vision:

·        As exemplified in our motto, “Working Together for Excellence”, we will collaborate to create an extended school family around each child, comprising their peers, their staff and their parents & carers that has the common aim of supporting that student to be the very best version of themselves every single day;

• Every student who attends The Radclyffe School will have equal access to an ambitious, broad and balanced curriculum that will not only allow them to learn essential knowledge across a range of subjects but will stimulate them to build on this in the future and enable them to pursue their personal dreams;
• Supported by our culture of high expectations, all our students, no matter what their background or previous social and academic experience, will leave our school as well-qualified, literate, numerate, independent and confident young adults with a global perspective, ready to make a highly positive contribution to their community and wider society;
• In our diverse and inclusive school community, our staff will nurture our students and instill within them the attributes of resilience and personal responsibility as well as the values of respect, kindness and acceptance of one another and of people from all faiths, cultures and backgrounds.

 As an employer we can offer you:

• a successful and forward-looking school with stunning and unrivalled facilities;

·        a supportive staff and Senior Leadership Team to help you develop your full potential;

·        a school renowned for outstanding professional development opportunities across both its support and teaching staff;

·        a highly skilled team including designers and programmers;

·        a school community committed to corporate excellence.

 The Radclyffe School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  As part of this commitment each successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check along with other relevant employment checks.

 The school will carry out an online search as part of their due diligence for all shortlisted candidates in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022 (para 221).

 Further details and an application form can be found on the school website www.theradclyffeschool.co.uk. 

For more information about this post, please contact Joanne Lawton, HR Manager on 0161 622 3200 or by email HR@theradclyffeschool.co.uk

 Application is via the school application form and must be returned to HR@theradclyffeschool.co.uk

 Closing date for applications is 9:00 am on Monday 6th January 2025.

 Interviews will take place on Friday 10th January 2025.

 Please note: the vacancy will be closed early if we receive an appropriate amount of responses.