Marketing Assistant

The Role

Job Title:                     Marketing Assistant

Reporting to:               Director of Admissions and Communications

Hours of Work:            8.30am–4.30pm (Mon-Fri)  The post is full-time and office based.

To support the Marketing and Admissions Team in the successful delivery of marketing strategies, internal and external communications, and full-service delivery in one of Scotland’s leading independent schools.

This is a small, busy, in-demand team, responsible for the Marketing, Communications and Admissions functions of the School and Nursery. The team is led by the Director of Admissions and Communications (DAC) who is a member of the Senior Leadership Team and reports directly to the Rector. Located within the main building and benefitting from being at the very heart of the School, the department works closely with teaching staff and other departments to ensure all internal and external communications are on brand and promote the most positive aspects of KA to a wide and varied audience.  You must be prepared to be flexible with regard to working hours and be capable of adjustment to events and demands. 

Main Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Curate and deliver story telling on all the School’s digital and social platforms
• Digital asset creation – assisting with creating of digital assets such as product imagery, and website banners 
• Support the teaching staff in reporting on various nursery and school activities including taking pictures and videos
• Assist in the planning, design and delivery of marketing material 
• Attend meetings and work with external PR company and website design consultancy
• Employ marketing analytics techniques to gather important data for monthly marketing reporting
• Support all department event planning
• Conduct and collate market and competitor research
• Undertake daily administrative tasks to ensure the functionality and co-ordination of the department’s activities.

The right candidate will be a recent graduate or equivalent, demonstrate excellent communication skills, a sharp eye for detail, a conscientious work ethic and the ability to work to short deadlines. You should be keen to learn and get stuck in, happy to multi-task and be passionate about delivering high quality work and excellent customer service. 

Experience with graphic design, photography and video editing – or a desire to learn these skills – is a must. 

Experience of coordinating events and marketing campaigns is desirable but not essential, as is an understanding of or interest in education.

About Kelvinside Academy

Kelvinside Academy is an independent, HMC, co-educational day school with 640 pupils aged from 3 to 18. It may have first opened its doors in 1878 and be housed in a Grade A listed building in Glasgow’s West End, but there’s much more going on inside the walls than meets the eye.  

It is a forward-thinking independent school with a focus on progressive pupil-centric learning at every stage and pushing beyond the boundaries of traditional academic assessment.  It combines high standards of teaching and a superb extra-curricular programme within an inclusive and caring ethos to encourage the individual talents and ambitions of every young person. 

Results in examinations are well above the national average. Pupils are encouraged to take advantage of the many opportunities for personal development through sport, music, drama, outdoor pursuits and clubs and societies.   

The first of its kind in the UK, Kelvinside’s state of the art Innovation School facility has enabled design thinking and an architectural design studio model to be incorporated into the school’s curriculum from J1 to S6.

Junior school classrooms are inspired by the collaborative, pupil-oriented Scandinavian school model featuring bleacher seating, mobile teaching stations and whiteboard desks. All Junior School pupils enjoy weekly Forest School sessions and Innovation School classes.

Outdoor education plays a primary role in learning with our Wilderness Campus in the Cairngorms National Park, School Yacht ‘Level Best’, external roof garden classroom and Forest School partnership with the University of Glasgow.

Our Greek motto translates as ‘Ever to be the Best’. In recent years, this has been given a more modern interpretation and the ethos of the school is to challenge each individual pupil to ‘Be The Best You Can Be’ in all aspects of life.