Digital Marketing Officer
Location: Howell’s School, Llandaff
Required from: ASAP
Contract term: Permanent
Hours: Full time 36 hours per week 8.30am to 4.30pm, although attendance at events will require some evening and/or weekend hours. Application for part time hours will be considered.
Salary: Dependent on experience
The Role:
We are looking for a creative and enthusiastic digital marketing professional to join the Marketing Department at Howell’s School.
The role will cover all areas of the school from Nursery to Year 13. Responsibilities will include planning, creating and managing all content for distribution across our digital and social media channels, planning and executing paid online marketing campaigns and delivering online events to support the development of the School’s profile and to increase recruitment. The role also has overall responsibility for the on-going development of the School website.
Skills & Experience required:
With proven experience in digital marketing, you will be adept at creating engaging content and developing digital campaigns. You will be a confident writer and communicator, able to quickly turnaround stories and ideas. You will be responsible for ensuring the consistent presentation of the Howell’s brand across all our digital communication channels including email, website and social media platforms. You will manage the day to day updates of the external facing website. Your skills and experience will include:
• Significant experience in a digital marketing role
• Experience of SEO, Google Analytics, Google Ad words, paid social media campaigns and CMS systems, FaceBook Ads Manager, Twitter Ads and LinkedIn Advertising
• Ability to create engaging content for multiple communication channels
• Excellent and creative writing skills
• Experience of managing content across multiple social media channels
• Outward-looking, positive, collaborative work-style, capable of inspiring trust in people from a wide variety of backgrounds
• Ability to use a variety of data sets to influence campaign planning and management
• Attention to detail
• Proficient user of: CMS systems, Illustrator, Light Room; Adobe Suite including InDesign, Premier Pro and Photoshop; Google Drive
• Creative thinker, with the ability to develop and deliver ideas
About Us:
Howell’s School, Llandaff, is one of the oldest girls’ school in Wales, having opened in August 1860. Since then, it has steadily expanded, both in terms of student numbers and physical size. The school now caters for girls from the age of 3 to 16 and girls and boys 16-18. Since 1980 it has been a member of the Girls’ Day School Trust, the largest organisation of independent schools in the UK. Its 25 member schools all have a reputation for consistently high academic standards, superb pastoral support and enviable extra-curricular programmes.
The facilities inside the Victorian building and its more modern extensions are first-class and the opportunities for extracurricular activities, teamwork and confidence-building numerous. Academically, the school provides great added value, with results at both GCSE and A Level regularly greatly exceeding expectations.
Benefits:
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
• Competitive salaries and pay progression
• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• Training grants for qualifications
• Generous pension schemes
• Free life assurance benefit
• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
• Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
• A Cycle to Work scheme
• Competitive terms and conditions of employment
The closing date for applications is 12pm on Friday 1st October
The GDST are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included
Howell's School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.