Job Details

Hours of Work:  37 Hours Per Week,  Term Time Only, including Training Days (39 Weeks Per Year) 

Position Type:  Permanent  

Line Manager:  Headteacher (day-to-day link Assistant Headteacher - Experience)

Travel Required:  Some

The salary is dependent on current qualifications and experience, please see the attached job description for more information.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly organised, creative and student-centered Careers and Communication Lead to play a pivotal role in shaping both the future pathways of our students and the public profile of our school.

This is a unique and influential post that combines strategic leadership of Careers, Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) with responsibility for school communications and marketing.

The successful candidate will ensure all students receive high quality, impartial careers guidance whole also leading professional, engaging and values-driven communication with families, partners and the wider community.

Key Responsibilities

Careers and CEIAG

• Lead and develop a whole-school careers strategy aligned with the Gatsby Benchmarks and statutory guidnance
• Provide one-to-one impartial guidance for Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5 students and support post-16 and post-18 progression
• Lead work experience programmes in Year 10 and Year 12
• Build strong relationships with employers, FE/HE providers and training organisations
• Coordinate careers events, employer encounters, assemblies and parent sessions
• Track destinations and support young people at risk of becoming NEET

Communications and Marketing

• Lead the school's communications and marketing strategy across all platforms
• Produce the school communication publications, maintain the website and manage social-media channels
• Create high-quality digital and printed materials including prospectuses, options booklets and transition resources
• Support student recruitment for Year 7 and Sixth Form and strengthen the school's public profile
• Ensure communications are accurate, inclusive, engaging and filly complaint with safeguarding and GDPR

The successful candidate will:

• Have (or be willing to work towards) a Level 6 Careers Guidance qualification
• Have experience delivering or supporting careers guidance for young people
• Demonstrate strong written, verbal and digital communication skills
• Be confident working with students, families, staff and external partners
• Be highly organised, creative and detail focused
• Show a strong commitment to safeguarding, inclusion and raising aspirations

Experience in marketing, media, design or employer engagement is desirable but not essential

Why join us?

• A varied and rewarding role with real impact on students' futures
• The opportunity to shape careers provision and school communications strategically
• A supportive leadership team with a strong commitment to professional development
• A school community that values creativity, ambition and inclusion

For an informal chat about the role please contact Mr K Broom, Headteacher (via his PA, Louise Bramley) on lbramley@northallerton-alt.uk. 

About the Trust

Areté Learning Trust currently has 11 schools and educates over 7,000 young people in and around North Yorkshire from ages 2-18.  Our learners are at the heart of everything we do.

At Areté Learning Trust we work together and collaborate to ensure that all of our learners and our staff team have the chance to reach their potential.

Our Trust is committed to promoting:

• Health, happiness and wellbeing

• A safe, disciplined and supportive environment

• A love of learning through a passionate and committed approach

• High standards and expectations

• Integrity, kindness and good manners

• Respect for individuality and difference

• Collaborative working to secure excellence

 To realise our aspiration for every child to be the best they can be, we need to ensure that as a Trust we are ‘Striving for Excellence’.

Why work for us?

We want everyone who works within ALT to feel valued and see how their work fits into the bigger picture.

We seek employees who are prepared to take personal responsibility and constantly challenge the norm to improve performance.

In return, we are committed to providing an empowering and supportive learning environment for all staff.

Areté Learning Trust is committed to being the ‘Employer of Choice’.

Essentially this means that we want our schools and our central team to be great places to work. We want our staff development opportunities to be first class and we want to enable staff who are ambitious to grow their careers with us. To give our learners the best education and opportunities we are committed to recruiting and retaining the very best people in all areas of our organisation.

Regardless of role, we seek staff who:

• Have high expectations of themselves and the people they work with.

• Are committed to our Trust values.

• Show initiative and are responsive to change.

• Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others.

• Are creative in their approach to problem solving.

• Are able to influence effectively, whatever their role.

• Are team players.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds; for more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy statement (https://www.arete.uk/careers).  If you are ready for the next step in your career and you feel that your skill set makes you a good fit for this very exciting opportunity, then we look forward to receiving your application.

Application Process

Please complete the online application form to apply for this role. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.  You should use the information supplied with in the Job Description & Person Specification to make the best of your application by identifying some specific pieces of work you may have undertaken in any of these areas. Your application may be viewed in regard to some or all of the skill specific areas over the course of the selection process.  Applications via agencies will not be considered.

Interviews will take place as soon as possible after the closing date.

The Areté Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.

Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.