Communications Officer
Gordon's School
Woking
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- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 22 November 2017
Job overview
Main Purpose of the Job
The Deputy Head (Pastoral) is responsible for the school’s marketing strategy and the role of the Communications Officer is to support him by leading on internal and external communications for both the School and the Foundation through various mediums including printed brochures, newsletters, electronic communications and social media. This role is also responsible for the day to day website management and communications with parents and alumni.
Duties Communications
• Day to day management of the school website in line with the agreed protocols
• Prepare and send schoolcomms messages to parents
• Prepare written content for all publications • Proof-read external communications to parents
• Prepare and send press releases • Manage the School’s social media communications in accordance with the Safe Use of Technology policy
Marketing and PR
• Manage the School’s web presence
• Book advertising space in accordance with the marketing strategy
• Supply art work (provided) and copy for all advertisements and editorials
• Produce monthly and annual marketing activity reports
• Produce monthly social media and website activity reports
• Analyse admission trends and data The above list of duties and responsibilities is not exhaustive and may be altered from time to time.
Special Factors
May be required to work some weekends and evenings.
Person Specification
Experience and skills Essential:
• Experience as a website administrator
• Excellent literacy skills
• Excellent administrative skills
• A high standard of organisational skills and ability to use initiative will be matched by discretion, integrity and capacity for hard work
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
Desirable:
• A knowledge of Gordon’s School ethos and values
• An understanding of customer-facing practice and appearance
Personal Skills
• A conscientious individual, committed and reliable with excellent attention to detail
• Self-motivated energetic and enthusiastic
• Able to work on own initiative, whilst at the same time having the ability to work well within a team
• Good inter-personal skills, diplomatic and tactful
• Ability to establish good working relationships with colleagues
• A sense of humour
• A confident person with a willingness to take responsibility • Adaptability and flexibility to meet changing work priorities
Gordon’s School is a State Boarding and Day School and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment – applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate screening including a DBS check.
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About Gordon's School
Gordon’s is a non-selective, co-ed, 11-18 school of circa 1000 students. Unusually for a state school it offers residential boarding facilities to 280 students. Founded in 1885, its historical links with General Charles Gordon have shaped the ethos and sense of tradition that is present within the school today.
Gordon’s places a strong emphasis on standards, academic success and high expectations. Great importance is placed on the quality of teaching in the classroom because of the belief that schools are first and foremost centres for learning.
In the sixth form there are over 350 students taking BTEC and A Level courses. There are five residential boarding houses and six day boarding houses for students. This allows for a high level of care and individual support, excellent staff/student relationships, backed by a structured learning and teaching environment, with high standards of courtesy and self-discipline.
In the school there is a wide variety of sporting and co-curricular activities. Daily over forty clubs offer a range from traditional games, rock-climbing and horse riding to tap dancing, music and drama. The Combined Cadet Force and The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme are particularly popular and successful. One unusual feature is the marching Pipes and Drums band, which plays at ceremonial occasions at school and for outside events, when the students wear their ‘blues’ - a form of military uniform featuring the Gordon’s tartan.
School facilities are excellent and include over fifty acres of playing fields, a state-of-the art fitness centre, sports hub including all-weather pitches and coffee shop, and refurbished music and drama block.
The school is situated in fifty acres of Surrey parkland a few miles from the M25, M3 and M4 motorways. Day boarders come mainly from the local villages of West End, Chobham and Lightwater. Residential boarders come for all parts of the United Kingdom and around ten percent from overseas.
The Ofsted Inspection of November 2014 reported, “Gordon’s is an outstanding school in every respect”. Ofsted inspected 27 areas, 26 of which were given grade 1. In particular: -
“Teaching and learning are outstanding”
“The curriculum provision is outstanding”
“Standards are outstandingly high in national tests and GCSE”
“The effectiveness and efficiency of the boarding is outstanding”
“The quality of care provided by the school for the pupils is exceptional”
“Leadership and management are outstanding”
All of this is a tremendous testimony to the hard work and commitment of both students and staff – and is part of the reason why Gordon’s is the most over-subscribed state school in Surrey with over five applications for every place.
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