Head of Corporate Communications and Marketing

Job overview

Head of Corporate Communications and Marketing

Location: Home based – with regular travel to the Trust’s schools and our London Head Office

Hours: Full time, Permanent

Salary: c£50,000 per annum

Creative Education Trust is a leading multi-academy trust dedicated to providing high-quality education to students across our network of 17 schools. We are seeking a Head of Corporate Communications and Marketing to join our team to enhance communication and content management across our network. Whilst also strengthening the presentation of our brand identity in line with our core values of excellence and dedication to education and community engagement.

This is a new role which is designed to maintain a consistent and professional outward-facing media brand, ensuring alignment with statutory expectations, and facilitating continued growth, recruitment efforts, and community connections. A key element of this role will be to devise and deliver a strategy aimed at increasing pupil numbers across our academies. This entails implementing targeted initiatives to attract prospective students and their families, while maintaining alignment with our core values.

The responsibilities for this role are wide and varied, and include strategic media planning, content creation, social media management, website oversight, stakeholder engagement, media compliance, brand consistency, internal communications, overseeing graphic design projects, reporting and analytics, team collaboration and budget management.  

This is an exciting role that would suit a pro-active, focused and determined individual who can successfully engage with stakeholders and deliver results. If you are ready to step into a head of role or are currently in a similar role and driven by improving educational outcomes, then we'd love to hear from you.

As an employee of Creative Education Trust, you will benefit from a highly competitive career package which includes:

• High quality professional development
• Regular training to develop your skills and knowledge
• A tailored induction programme to meet your needs and ongoing support from an experienced and skilled team

In addition, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package.

You will have access to:

• Local Government Pension Scheme
• The Vivup platform that brings employee benefits, discounts, and wellbeing
• Discounted Gym memberships and a Health Cash Plan where you can claim money back for medical expenses
• Access to our Employee Assistance Scheme provided by Health Assured.
• Bike2Work Scheme - where you can save up to 42% on the cost of bicycles and/or equipment
• And much more.

Closing date: Monday 29th April

Interview date: Wednesday 8th May, London Head Office

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Creative Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people. Shortlisted candidates will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks which will include checks of social media accounts.