Marketing and Communications Officer

The Radclyffe School, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL9 0LS

33 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  6 January 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  3 December 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Term Time Only plus 2 weeks (including GCSE results day and the day before) 36 hours 40 minutes a week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Grade 5, point 18 -23 (subject to experience) £26,816 – £30,196 (pro-rata applied)

What skills and experience we're looking for

• The Marketing and Communications Officer will support the school’s communication across several channels including social media, 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.

  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
• You will require:-
• Relevant qualifications in marketing or communications (Desirable)
• Education to A Level or equivalent
• Mathematics G.C.S.E Grade C/4 or above or equivalent
• English G.C.S.E Grade C/4 or above or equivalent
• A commitment to continuing professional development

• Experience within a similar role in business or education sector
• Strong creative skills to include design and photography
• App skills including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign (Desirable)
• Effective ICT skills and use of Microsoft Office software
• A creative mindset with the ability to generate innovative ideas for content creation
• Ability to ideate and create topical, on-brand content that engages and excites our audiences
• Experience of using social media as part of a marketing approach
• Excellent communication, writing, editing and proofreading skills
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to develop positive relationships with students, parents and colleagues.
• Ability to give professional advice and information
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Organise and prioritise workloads with the ability to meet and manage competing deadlines
• Work on your own initiative and as part of a team
• Relate to and promote the ethos of the school
• Ability to maintain a positive approach to work with a high level of self-motivation
• High levels of integrity, confidentiality and discretion
• Enthusiasm about getting to know new people, networking, communications technology, social media, photography, and writing.

• Be willing to undertake training as required
• Have excellent attendance and punctuality (assessed once a conditional offer of employment is made)
• An understanding of and commitment to Equal Opportunities and the ability to apply this to strategic work and day to day situations.
• An appropriate understanding of child protection and school behaviour management policies
• A commitment to promote and support the school’s ethos for staff wellbeing for staff and students.

What the school offers its staff

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.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Radclyffe School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Please see our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy for further information: https://theradclyffeschool.co.uk/safeguarding-child-protection-policy/

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About The Radclyffe School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1475 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Radclyffe School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: HR@theradclyffeschool.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-radclyffe-school (opens in new tab)

The Radclyffe School is a popular 11-16 maintained Foundation (Co-operative) Trust school in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham. The Governing Body has direct responsibility for the employment of staff, its finances, the running of the school and the outcomes it achieves. It is a larger than average secondary school with 1500 mixed gender students on roll. The school is full in every year group. Over 70% of students are from ethnic minority backgrounds, most of whom are of Pakistani or Bangladeshi heritage. Some 30% of students qualify for free school meals or a clothing grant to help with the purchase of school uniform.

Arranging a visit to The Radclyffe School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email HR@theradclyffeschool.co.uk.

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