Administrative Assistant (with Marketing)

The Westleigh School; North Leigh; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LGPS

Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan

DiscountForTeachers Scheme

Free Eye Tests

Cycle to work scheme

Institute of Education opportunities

Job summary

The Westleigh School is seeking an Administration Assistant with a strong marketing focus to join our team. You will lead on social media, content creation, and online presence to promote the school and engage with our community.

Ideal candidates will have good digital/ICT skills, experience with CMS and website updates, and a flair for designing promotional materials that showcase school life and achievements.

Qualifications

• Excellent digital and ICT skills with a strong understanding of social media for marketing and promotion.
• Creative mindset with ability to produce engaging content.
• Experience creating and managing social media content, ideally in an organisation or business environment.
• Confident updating websites and using back-end content management systems.
• Excellent written communication skills for articles, newsletters and promotional content.
• Experience or flair for designing publications, magazines and marketing materials.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop the school's social media presence across platforms.
• Update and maintain the school's website and CMS.
• Create high-quality promotional materials, graphics, newsletters and digital content.
• Produce and coordinate the school magazine with articles, photos and news.
• Support the development and delivery of marketing and communications activities.
• Capture and promote positive work across the school.

Skills

Social media management

Content creation

Digital marketing

Website CMS

Copywriting

Graphic design

Tools

Back-end CMS

Job description

Are you creative, digitally confident and passionate about marketing and communications?

We are seeking a highly organised, proactive and enthusiastic Administration Assistant with a strong marketing focus to join our school team.

This is an exciting and varied role for someone who is confident using digital platforms, has a flair for creating engaging content and understands how to use social media effectively to promote an organisation. We are looking for someone who is genuinely marketing savvy, keeps up to date with the latest social media trends and knows how to create content that captures attention and engages an audience.

You will play a key role in promoting the school, developing its online presence and ensuring our communications reflect the school's identity, values and achievements.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Managing and developing the school's social media presence, creating engaging, creative and relevant content across platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and other appropriate channels.
• Keeping up to date with current social media trends, digital marketing techniques and new ways to increase engagement and reach.
• Updating and maintaining the school's website, including managing the back-end content management system to ensure information is accurate, current and engaging.
• Creating high-quality promotional materials, graphics, newsletters and digital content to showcase school life, events, achievements and successes.
• Producing and coordinating the school's magazine, bringing together articles, photographs, features and news to create an engaging publication.
• Supporting the development and delivery of the school's marketing and communications activities.
• Capturing and promoting the positive work taking place across the school, celebrating the achievements of pupils, staff and the wider school community.
• Providing general administrative support to the main school office, including responding to enquiries, maintaining records and supporting the smooth day-to-day running of the office.

The successful candidate will:

• Have excellent digital and ICT skills, with a strong understanding of social media platforms and how to use them effectively for marketing and promotion.
• Be genuinely marketing savvy, with a creative approach and an eye for what makes engaging content.
• Have experience creating and managing social media content, ideally within an organisation or business environment.
• Be confident updating websites and using back-end content management systems.
• Have excellent written communication skills, with the ability to produce engaging articles, newsletters and promotional content.
• Have experience or a flair for designing publications, magazines and marketing materials.
• Be highly organised, proactive and able to manage competing priorities.
• Have excellent attention to detail and take pride in producing work to a high standard.
• Be confident working independently, using their initiative and bringing fresh ideas to the role.
• Be approachable, professional and enjoy working as part of a busy school team.

What we are looking for:-

Above all, we are looking for someone who can bring our school to life through its marketing and communications. Someone who understands that social media and a school's online presence are more than simply posting updates – they are an opportunity to tell our story, celebrate our successes, engage with our community and showcase everything that makes our school special.

If you are creative, digitally confident, full of ideas and have the marketing skills to make a real difference, we would love to hear from you!

Our ethos is ‘Aspiring and Achieving Together’. Whilst we are committed to ensuring that every student makes excellent progress, this concept stretches well beyond academic performance. We firmly believe that every aspect of school should equip learners to be successful in all areas of their lives, both now and for their future. Indeed, every single decision or action taken improves the life chances of all our learners. This is underpinned by ensuring The Westleigh school is a safe, nurturing and happy environment: put simply, The Westleigh School is a great place to learn and a great place to work.

Uniting with The Shaw Education Trust brings with it new opportunities and a wealth of resources to supplement our mission to improve outcomes for all our students. Colleagues will have access to a large range of well-established training opportunities, such as a fully funded L5 Instructional Coaching qualification or Accelerated Leadership training, for those aspiring to Middle Leadership. Outstanding teachers will also achieve Trust Professional Advocate designation, which provides exciting opportunities to support colleagues within both The Westleigh School and across other SET schools to share best practice. With this brings the opportunity to engage in the cross-trust peer review and Trust CPD programme.

All candidates are required to provide a supporting statement on the formal application forms which states clearly your reasons for applying, skills and experience for this position.

AtShaw Education Trust, we believe every role has the power to transform a life.Whether you’re supporting behind the scenes, inspiring in the classroom, orleading with vision, you will be part of something truly meaningful.

Ourvalues—opportunity, integrity, community, and equity—guide everything wedo. Our vision is “Opening doors to the world through the power oflearning.” We bring this to life through our mission: workingtogether to inspire communities where every school is valued, every voicematters, and every learner thrives.

Weare a dynamic and growing family of primary, secondary, and special schools,proudly serving communities from Birmingham to Bury.

ShawEducation Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching orSupport Staff employment:

• An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (SupportStaff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
• Support Staff only based on working full time,all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day ofemployment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’service including Bank Holidays)
• Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoyhealth services designed to support your well-being.
• Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Supportand Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection ofdiscounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
• Free Eye Tests
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to our Institute ofEducation and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute andflourish in your role and in the Trust.

Weknow our people are the key to our success and so we’re committedtoensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewardingone.

Colleagueswithin the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house andprofessionally accredited. These courses include a variety of the NationalProfessional Qualifications and the Early Carer Teacher Programme delivered byShaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute.

• Experiencedleadership and subject-specific support.
• Guidancefrom former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
• Accessto the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
• Opportunitiesto work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
• Participatingin peer reviews.
• Accessto a suite of online courses.
• Placementprojects within our family of schools.

Actual Salary: £26,666 - £29,376
Working hours: 37 hours per week, Term time only plus 20 inset days (Working 42 weeks)