Marketing and Communications Officer (Digital Marketing and Events)
Canford School
Wimborne, Dorset
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 17 September 2017
Job overview
The Marketing and Communications Department plays a key role in the maintenance and development of Canford’s excellent reputation as a leading co-educational boarding school. A vacancy has now arisen within the department for a highly organised and motivated individual to join this busy team.
Reporting to the Director of Marketing and Communications, the Marketing and Communications Officer (Digital Marketing and Events) will be fully responsible for the school’s online presence, including management of the school website and social media publishing, posting and listening across Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Instagram. They will also take the lead on the running of marketing events, and therefore must have an outgoing and cheerful personality and be capable of communicating easily and naturally with staff, pupils and parents, school visitors and suppliers. Finally, the role incorporates the administrative running of the office. Computer literacy using Microsoft Office and Outlook is essential, as is the ability to pick up work with new systems quickly.
This is a busy, varied, term time role (plus four weeks annually during the school holidays) which would ideally suit someone with experience and a keen interest in social media and digital marketing, excellent interpersonal and office skills, and an interest in the independent education sector. Terms may be flexible depending on the candidate.
For further details, including an application form and a full job description, please visit the school website www.canford.com/support-staff-vacancies
Closing date: Noon on Monday, 18th September 2017.
Canford School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate will be required to undergo child protection screening.
About Canford School
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Situated in 250 acres of landscaped grounds near Wimborne, Dorset, Canford is among the top co-educational boarding schools in the UK. It is regularly recognised nationally for the high quality of the education it offers. In 2023, the school’s centenary year, it ranked No.1 in the South West among co-educational senior schools by The Sunday Times Parent Power 2023 report for the school’s 2022 A Level results, winner of the BSA Award for Boarding Excellence and the HIEDA Award for All Round Excellence in Health and Wellbeing and was a finalist in the TES Awards for Boarding School of the Year 2023. The school is thriving, enjoying the highest school roll in its history, with 660+ pupils aged 13-18 years from September 2023, of whom approximately 65% are full boarders. 95%+ leavers move on to university, with over 80% to Russell Group/Sunday Times Top 12 universities in the UK including Oxbridge and an increasing number of scholarships to universities in the US. As the Good Schools Guide points out ‘With its first rate teaching, stunning setting and innovative ideas, Canford is definitely at the top of its game’.
Despite reaching its centenary, Canford is a relatively young school compared with similar top British public schools, which enables it to blend tradition with forward-thinking. The Grade 1 listed manor house is complemented by a range of exceptional modern buildings including a sports centre, theatre, Real Tennis court and boathouse. A new library, two new boys’ boarding houses, three new day houses and a new Assembly Hall are among the most recent developments in its facilities. A new Sixth Form College is planned.
Canford’s vision is for all those working and living in its community to ‘explore, express and excel’. It combines academic achievement with a diverse co-curricular programme of intellectual, cultural and sporting activities. The environment encourages participation, hard work and a strong sense of community and integrity. The school promotes the values of Purposeful Engagement, Courageous Attitude, Humble Ambition and Gracious Leadership in every pupil so they leave equipped with the soft skills to excel, whatever their future career path may be. Pupils who thrive are those eager to embrace the wide range of opportunities. Success is evident outside the classroom as well as within it, including GB rowers, England Hockey players, England Cricketers, county rugby and hockey championship teams and ABRSM Music diploma achievers. Importance is placed on educating pupils to appreciate the coherence between and connections across their learning experiences in a wide range of contexts. The pastoral side of the school is very strong and applicants should be willing to play a full part in the thriving co-curricular life.
Few schools are fortunate to have such a beautiful setting as Canford – The Daily Telegraph voted it among the most beautiful schools in the country – and it offers an enjoyable, stimulating and inspirational atmosphere in which to work, close to the beaches of the south coast and the exceptional landscapes of both Dorset and the New Forest yet also very well placed for major road and rail links to London and close to a number of international airports.
Please visit www.canford.com/who-we-are to learn more about Canford and why it is such a special place to live and work.
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