Do you want to work as part of a team to provide excellent media, marketing and digital communications support to an outstanding school?

We are looking for a hardworking, dynamic, reliable, and creative Media, Marketing and Digital Communications Lead with excellent skills and a high level of personal drive. You will work to provide outstanding media, marketing and technical support to all our stakeholders. You will have a passion for planning, developing and scheduling innovative original video/marketing content and will be fully literate in media editing (e.g. Adobe) software with a good understanding of digital marketing platforms. Previous experience in a school is not essential, as it is more important for us to have someone with a positive and can-do attitude and the enthusiasm to become an integral part of our team.

 The successful candidate will need to:

• To help deliver the Marketing and Communications Strategy. This role will involve working closely with multiple stakeholders.
• To develop a distinct brand presence for the school through all relevant marketing channels.
• To work with the SLT Strategic Co-ordinator, and other interested parties, in maintaining the school website, making it engaging and keeping it up to date.
• To assist with media and audiovisual creative and technical support across the school and for whole school events.
• To provide support with internal communications and online user platforms, like SharePoint.
• To ensure all media content is correct and up to date and that it is advanced as both an informational news service and a marketing tool that promotes the school to its wider audience to a professional standard.

 Why work at The Compton School, part of the Middlesex Learning Trust?

• You will be joining a highly successful school with a national profile of excellence in teaching and learning, teacher training and student outcomes
• Collaborative opportunities for sharing of best practise across the Trust
• Exceptional professional development: The Compton School works alongside a local Teaching School Hub to deliver key professional development programmes – there are specific professional development opportunities for support staff as well as teaching staff.
• A commitment to staff wellbeing, including a 2-week Autumn half term, scheduled INSET days, staff-run Wellbeing Team, staff socials, a staff choir, cakes in the staffroom every Friday, a cycle-to-work scheme and wellbeing afternoons.

Who are we?

We are a massively oversubscribed school that has had five Outstanding OFSTED inspections in succession, most recently in March 2024. Students at the Compton make exceptional progress - our results routinely put the school within the top 10% of schools nationally for progress.

At The Compton we understand that our brilliant teachers make a difference to the life chances of our students every day by helping them to secure outstanding outcomes. We always strive to appoint the very best teachers and once in post we provide a workplace environment that ensures their needs are fully met now and in the future.

The Compton School is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are proud of our diverse school community, and we are committed to delivering our ethos of ‘Excellence for All’ in an inclusive and supportive working environment in which everyone is valued.  

Are you the right person to join our team? If so, we would be delighted to hear from you.

The Compton School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.