Careers and Marketing Officer

Connect Multi Academy Trust, Stanley, DH9 0TW

17 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  1 June 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  15 May 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £24,305.00 - £26,325.00 Annually (Actual)

Careers and Marketing Officer job summary

Careers & Marketing Officer

Connect MAT | Grade 3 | Based at Trust HQ

37 hours per week | Term time plus 2 weeks

Are you creative, organised, and passionate about making a difference?
We’re looking for a dynamic Careers & Marketing Officer to help us tell our story, engage our communities, and help inspire the next generation.

This is an exciting hybrid role where marketing meets meaningful impact—from running campaigns and creating content to supporting careers education and student opportunities across our schools.

What you’ll be doing

• Supporting and delivering creative marketing campaigns across digital, print, and social media
• Producing engaging content for websites, newsletters, and social platforms
• Helping manage and grow our online presence and brand
• Coordinating events such as open evenings, careers fairs, and community activities
• Supporting careers programmes, including work experience, employer engagement, and student events
• Working with colleagues and external partners to bring ideas to life

What we’re looking for

You’ll be:

• A confident communicator with strong written and digital skills
• Highly organised, able to juggle multiple priorities
• Creative, proactive, and full of ideas
• Comfortable using social media and IT systems
• Passionate about improving outcomes for young people

Experience in marketing, events, or education is a bonus—but your attitude, energy, and ability to deliver matter most.

Connect Multi-Academy Trust is legally obligated to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before making appointments to relevant posts. The DBS check will reveal both spent and unspent convictions, cautions, and bind-overs as well as pending prosecutions, which aren't 'protected' under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and check to establish that a person is not barred from 'regulated activity' as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.

Please note that we operate a probationary period of 6 months across all jobs in the Trust (see attached policy for further details). You will receive a comprehensive induction to support you to successfully pass your probation.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Connect Multi Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/new-college-durham-academies-trust

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