Communications Manager
Bedford School
Bedford
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- Competitive salary and benefits, including many opportunities for professional development
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 4 June 2024
Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic team player with a passion for communications? Are you interested in leading and supporting marketing and engagement campaigns targeted at growing a specific audience?
Are you an innovative and creative thinker with the ability to problem-solve and take the initiative to successfully implement your own ideas? Do you enjoy building long-term and meaningful relationships, and also working in a fun and dynamic team?
If so, this could be a great opportunity for you.
For this role, you will need to demonstrate a good understanding of digital, print and social media marketing and communications tools, and know how to use these to develop and enhance engagement with a target audience. You will possess strong written communication skills and an excellent ability to both create and craft compelling content.
You will bring strong organisational and administrative skills, which you will use to develop effective systems and processes for managing multiple projects and workstreams.
Experience and awareness of alumni/community engagement and development in an educational setting are a plus, but above all, we are looking for a candidate with the right skills and attitude to engage our community and broker lifelong meaningful relationships between all the different participants of our community.
You will join a highly collaborative, vibrant, and friendly team with a flexible and respectful approach to work. The team you will be joining delivers a programme of communication, events, and engagement activities to enable our 14,000 strong community to keep in touch with the school and make a real difference to young people today.
The team generates opportunities for alumni, friends, and supporters to stay involved with the school and works closely with the Development team to help deliver its philanthropy programme.
The team also organizes a series of events during the year aimed at driving engagement, which the Communications Manager would be expected to help with.
Closing date: Friday 24th May 2024
Interview Date: Tuesday 4th June 2024
The Bedford School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The School may carry out online searches on shortlisted applicants. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
Bedford School is part of The Harpur Trust
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About Bedford School
Awarded five stars in Fortune’s World’s Leading Boarding Schools in 2023 and named ‘Independent Boys School of the Year 2021’, Bedford School is lauded for “its holistic school experience, tailored to the specific needs of the all-boys community, designed to ensure that students’ individual qualities are nurtured without inhibition and lived without awkwardness, so that they be good men.”
Bedford School class sizes are small and we operate vertical tutor groups, giving boys the chance to mentor and lead those younger, learn from those older and simply ‘be’ together without peer pressure. Bedford is a boarding school, first and foremost, with boarders and day boys alike benefitting from the strong boarding ethos. With 250 boys and around 40 staff living full-time on-site, the boarding community gives a heartbeat to the school in a way that nothing else can.
Our curriculum is broad, offering GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level and IB alongside a bespoke curriculum including Theory of Knowledge in Year 10 and an internal research project in Year 12. Every boy finds his individual path, with strong Sixth Form uptake across the sciences, humanities, creative arts and languages – there is no ‘typical’ Bedford student.
Academic results and destinations speak for themselves with 91% of our boys going onto their first or second choice university, including several to Oxbridge each year, and international universities. Many students are successful in gaining places at medical schools.
Facilities are first-class - two simulators (golf and flight), an observatory and planetarium are standout features. Our recently built Music School and Theatre house dynamic creative departments and excellent student performances.
Every boy makes a meaningful local contribution via our Community Partnership Programme, working in mutually beneficial partnerships with individuals from varied backgrounds, and we have run the Ivy House Leadership Award since its inception. We regularly top the schools' leader board in fundraising for Movember.
Sport is a forte: 96% of boys represent the school annually, and our major sports teams regularly make national finals, with many pupils playing at county or national level and at least one leaver almost every year going into professional sport. We work with Northampton Saints, Northants CCC and Woburn Golf Club. But we have a philosophy of ‘sport for all’ and we regularly field E and F teams.
We aim for our boys to be balanced, outward-looking, forward-thinking, kind and sociable young men who are comfortable in their own skins. We invite you to explore our school through the news stories we regularly publish on our website and on social media; these provide an insight into our boys, their stories and successes, and a strong sense of the enviable community that is Bedford School.
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