Marketing and Events Assistant

Connect Multi Academy Trust, Stanley, DH9 0TW

20 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  7 September 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  18 August 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• 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)

Marketing and Events Assistant job summary

Marketing and Events Assistant

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 Marketing and Events Assistant to support marketing, communications, events, and careers activities across our Trust. This is a varied and rewarding role where you'll help deliver marketing campaigns, create engaging content for websites and social media, coordinate events, and support careers programmes that inspire young people to explore their future opportunities.

Working closely with colleagues, schools, employers, and external partners, you'll help organise careers fairs, open evenings, and community events, while providing administrative support to ensure projects run smoothly. The role requires regular travel between Trust schools and sites.

We're looking for someone with excellent organisational and communication skills who is proactive, creative, and confident using IT and social media. Experience in marketing, events, education, or content creation is desirable, and knowledge of Canva, photography, or design software would be an advantage.

This role is contracted at 37 hours per week, term time plus 2 weeks. Some flexibility is required to support occasional out-of-hours events, with time off in lieu provided in line with Trust policy.

Please note that we operate a probationary period of 4 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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