Marketing Officer
Central Team, The Mead Educational Trust (TMET)
Salary: Grade 4, £26,610 - £28,366
Contract Type: Full Time, 37 hrs per week, 52 weeks (negotiable)
Contract Term: Permanent
Start Date: April/ May 2026
Closing Date: 06/02/2026
Interview Date: WC 23.02.2026
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🌟 About the Role
The Mead Educational Trust (TMET) is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Marketing Officer to join our dedicated and forward-thinking central team.
The successful candidate will plan and deliver creative, effective marketing activity that promotes TMET and its family of schools. You will be responsible for maintaining and developing the Trust’s social media channels, websites, newsletters and events, ensuring all communications are engaging, consistent, and aligned with Trust values and brand guidelines.
Working collaboratively across the Trust, you will also support wider communications and engagement activity, helping to build and maintain a professional, positive public profile for TMET and its schools.
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✅ What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual who can demonstrate:
• A strong commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
• A professional, caring, and adaptable approach, with the confidence to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• The ability to work collaboratively and build positive working relationships across teams
• Proven experience working closely with the Head of Marketing and Communications to gather stories, shape content, and edit, design, and distribute engaging newsletters for staff and stakeholders
• Creative flair and confidence in producing eye-catching marketing materials for both print and digital platforms using Canva
• The ability to support and coordinate professional photography and filming shoots, ensuring high-quality visual content
• Enthusiasm for helping to deliver impactful Trust-wide annual events, including liaising with stakeholders and suppliers to ensure the smooth coordination of goods and services
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🌱 Why Join Us?
The Mead Educational Trust (TMET) is a growing family of schools united by a shared commitment to delivering exceptional education and improving life chances for all our pupils. Serving a diverse range of communities across Leicester and Leicestershire, TMET is built on strong values of collaboration, inclusion, integrity, and excellence.
We are passionate about creating opportunities for staff to thrive. As part of TMET, you will benefit from:
• Access to high-quality professional development, coaching, and career progression
• Trust-wide collaboration across a network of passionate, like-minded professionals
• A strong commitment to staff wellbeing and work-life balance, including access to the Vivup Employee Assistance Programme
• Clear, values-led leadership and a shared drive to make a meaningful difference in education
TMET is an inclusive employer, and we welcome applications from all backgrounds and levels of experience. We believe that every child deserves an outstanding education – and that every adult in our organisation deserves to feel supported, valued, and inspired.
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🔐 Safer Recruitment & Safeguarding Statement
The Mead Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
An enhanced DBS check with a check of the barred lists is required for all roles working with children. As part of our safer recruitment process and in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2025, we will also carry out:
• Online searches for all shortlisted candidates, to help identify any issues or concerns that are publicly available online
• Checks on employment history, references, and eligibility to work in the UK
We are an equal opportunities employer.
This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.