Director of Communications
Oasis Community Learning, London, SE1 7HS18 days remaining to apply
Job start date
16 September 2026
Closing date
4 October 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
16 September 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support role
- Other leadership role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £73,000 ( + London weighting if applicable)
Director of Communications job summary
Director of Communications
Is our Director of Communications opportunity at Oasis Community Learning the role for you?
Firstly, you’ll be joining Oasis. We’re a large, established Multi-Academy Trust of 58 academies, but we’re more than a MAT. As part of the Oasis family, we exist to make a difference, build stronger communities and enhance young people’s lives. Want to work within a purpose-led organisation and help us tell our story? Then this might be the place for you.
This role forms part of the leadership team that shapes Oasis. If you share our vision, want to make a difference, and want to help develop and translate our communications strategy into action, then please read on!
About our Director of Communications role
Our central service teams provide the framework that allows our academies to focus on their vital work. In this role, you will be key to telling our story.
This is an all-encompassing communications role where you’ll be key to developing a new communications strategy, translating it into action, and ensuring the world knows who we are and what we stand for at Oasis. You will help us shape the sector and share our vision both inside and beyond our organisation. Taking an omni-channel approach, there is real scope to build on work already done and ensure our key messages and tone come across clearly in our communications.
The role will suit someone who is comfortable blending strategy, team management and day-to-day operations. You’ll lead a small but expert team of six colleagues working across Public Relations, Internal Communications and Admissions Marketing.
Who will this suit?
Experience in a Multi-Academy Trust, education, higher education and/or the third sector would be advantageous but is not required. We currently have 58 academies and over 5,000 employees, so someone with some synergy with this type of organisation would be great. What really matters is being someone who gets us. This role will only suit someone who believes in our vision and wants to make a difference.
We are open to backgrounds in marketing and communications. However, a good understanding of the different disciplines would be advantageous. You’ll be adept with PR and will help shape some of the amazing success stories our academies and students have, alongside promoting the work we do as a leading educational organisation.
Conversely, you’ll be able to respond sensitively to some of the difficult situations we must handle, supporting senior leaders, sometimes at short notice, as necessary. You will be a confident leader who is accomplished at supporting people to achieve their potential. Finally, you’ll have excellent attention to detail and be able to support the team to shape messaging as needed.
Key details and what will you get in return?
Duration: Permanent
Salary: Circa £73,000 (plus London weighting if applicable)
Base: Hybrid, likely working out of our London Waterloo office two to three times a week.
Travel: Some requirement to visit academies as needed, with the potential need to respond in person in any crisis.
Hours: 37 hours a week
Benefits: Continued professional development on both an informal and formal basis, plus access to the wider Oasis Community Learning benefits portal, including health and dental cover and discounts at leading companies.
Pension: Enrolment in Local Government Pension Scheme - a great scheme and benefit!
Great holiday entitlement:
• Under 2 years’ continuous service: 34 days holiday, comprising of 26 days + 8 Bank holidays.
• Under 4 years’ continuous service: 39 days holiday, comprising 31 days + 8 Bank Holidays.
• Over 4 years’ continuous service: 40 days holiday, comprising 32 days + 8 Bank Holidays.
About Oasis Community Learning
The overall vision for every part of Oasis is community: a place where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their God-given potential. Delivering first-class, innovative education is part of the work we do as we seek to grow an Oasis Hub in every area where we work, creating safe and inspiring local neighbourhoods that provide integrated and diverse services to benefit the whole person and the whole community.
Next steps
The job description and additional information about Oasis are also included. Sounds good? Then please submit your application. The role is open until Sunday 4 October, although we may need to close early if there is significant interest. We will be carrying out initial shortlisting calls during this time, and first-stage interviews will take place in Waterloo on 14 October. Successful candidates will then be invited to the final stage of our process in Waterloo on 22 October.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Oasis Community Learning
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
The overall vision for every part of the Oasis trust is for community. A place where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their God-given potential. As well as delivering first-class, innovative education, we seek to build a ‘Hub’ in each of the areas where we work; creating safe and inspiring local neighbourhoods that provide integrated and diverse services to benefit the whole person and whole community.
Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community
We understand the complex responsibilities of education, through a lens of character, competence and community. These principles, along with the Oasis 9 Habits and ethos, are intentionally developed and embedded throughout all of our academies day-to-day.
We have a commitment to inclusion, social integration and closing the disadvantage gap; we want to give advantage to the disadvantaged. Through a fostering of character and relationships, our students and teachers can form meaningful relationships built on a shared determination to learn and develop together as one community; one family.
Together, Oasis staff aspire to:
Create safe, stimulating learning environments
Increase progress and attainment above national averages
Provide high quality teaching which secures good and accelerated progress for all students
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