Digital Marketing and Communications Assistant at Sutton Valence School | Maidstone, Kent, UK

Sutton Valence School

Digital Marketing and Communications Assistant

Maidstone, Kent, UK (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableEntry LevelFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Build and own the school’s digital marketing cadence end to end, combining photo and video content, social posts, newsletters, and website updates under the Marketing and Communications lens.

Content & Brand Library: curate photography, video assets, and student consents, and ensure brand-aligned asset usage across campaigns.
Multi-channel Execution: prep visuals for social, newsletters, public pages, and event materials with consistent branding.

Job Description

Responsibilities

In collaboration with the Marketing and Communications Manager (MCM), successfully deliver the annual marketing plan and detailed termly plans through digital support;
Attending School activities to take high standard photographs, and photo editing;
Managing the school’s listings on external education directories, maintaining partner relationships and ensuring all submitted content is accurate and aligned with brand standards;
Maintain the library of School photography and videography to ensure availability of images suitable for promotional activities, advertisements, website use and publications, and manage the database of non-photo consent children;
Undertake marketing tasks as requested by departments across the School and the MCM, including creating, designing and branding PowerPoints, digital portfolios, slideshows, providing images, event programs, updating documents, etc;
Track and report on the effectiveness of marketing activity, including external listings and referrals;
Prepping photos into social media posts for use by the MCM;
Uploading photographs to Estream so they may be viewed by parents on the School’s portal;
Acting as an assistant on videography and photography shoot days and events;
Creating two weekly School newsletters via MailChimp;

Requirements

Hold a relevant higher education qualification or have previous digital marketing experience;
Possess previous experience of social media and other digital marketing platforms;
Previous experience of Google Analytics, Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, WordPress or iSAMS is desirable;
Photography and photo editing experience is highly desirable;
An eye for design and acting as brand guardian is important;
Hold a full, valid UK driving licence;
Training will be available for the successful candidate.

Preferred

Previous experience of Google Analytics, Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, WordPress or iSAMS is desirable;
Photography and photo editing experience is highly desirable;
An eye for design and acting as brand guardian is important;