Regional Communications Officer & Clerk to Governors

Shape Our Future: Regional Communications Officer & Clerk to Governors - Essex Region

Based at Hylands School, Chelmsford, Essex. While working in the region's primary schools and hybrid working options.

The expectation to travel to the Essex primary school in line with business requirements (Travel cost will be remunerated in line with the Trust's travel policy)

Role: Part-Time, 39 weeks per year, term time plus inset days, must have availability for a flexible working pattern. 32.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday 8.30am-3.30pm, with flexibility to accommodate late afternoon meetings.

Are you ready to embrace a dual role where your expertise in communication directly impacts the success and reputation of a leading educational trust, while your administrative excellence ensures critical strategic governance runs seamlessly?

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced professional to join our team in the Essex region. This unique, part-time position combines two critical functions: promoting the professional image of our academies in the public domain and providing indispensable procedural guidance to our Local Governing Bodies.

The Opportunity: Expert Communications & Culture Champion

Communication has a powerful impact on our sense of identity, meaning and connection. As an experienced professional in communications, copywriting or PR, you will be pivotal in ensuring our Essex group of primary schools stays connected and thrives.

You will step in as the expert in communication for our academies. This includes the challenge of supporting the creation, ownership, and execution of the internal comms strategy across our group of Essex primary schools. Teaming up with our trust's People & Culture colleagues, you'll foster a culture of sharing and recognition through fresh, varied communications for a diverse community and workforce. You will report to our Regional Business Manager, with links to our brilliant People & Culture team (who own generalist HR, including L&D, recruitment, and payroll) and the Director of Opportunity and the academies' Senior Leadership Team (SLT).

Key Responsibilities: Two Roles, One Vision

Your time will be strategically split between actively promoting our educational mission and maintaining the integrity of our governance structure.

Public Relations, Marketing & Communications:

Governance and Clerking:

Because we're relying on your expertise, we can only consider applicants who have strong experience in truly leading communications or a closely associated field in Primary school Public Relations and/or as a Clerk to Governors.

Essential Experience & Skills:

If you would like to have an informal discussion before applying, please contact Kenneth Sheard, Regional Business Manager, via [email protected] before the closing date. Internal applicants should discuss this role with their line manager before submitting an application form via the internal recruitment page on the one stop shop.

About our four primary schools in the Essex Region.

Heybridge Primary School currently has 405 pupils ranging from 4 - 11 years old. We have a bright, modern building, which is well equipped and is set within unusually generous grounds with playing fields and gardens. We are a friendly and engaging school with strong connections amongst our local community. To find out more, visit ourwebsite.

Maldon Primary School Our staff team is committed to providing a secure, happy and calm environment in which all children are able to thrive socially, emotionally and academically. We are a friendly and engaging school with strong connections amongst our local community, to find out more visit ourwebsite.

Stapleford Abbotts Primary Academy, a small, happy and successful Primary Academy, set on the borders of Essex and Havering in beautiful grounds, serving the community of Stapleford Abbotts since 1887. We are a friendly and engaging school with strong connections amongst our local community. We offer a supportive and nurturing environment for our staff as well as enthusiastic and incredibly well-behaved pupils. Our mission statement is Success for all, and we trulybelieve that a team approach between staff, children and parents is the best way to educate children for their lives ahead. To find out more, please visit ourwebsite.

Willow Brook Primary School and Nursery currently has 198 pupils ranging from 3 - 11 years old. At Willow Brook Primary School and Nursery, we ensure every child receives a well-rounded education, develops a lifelong love of learning and achieves their best. Our latest Ofsted Report (Nov 2022) recognised that children in Nursery and Reception classes are immersed in language. We are at the heart of the local community. To find out more, visit ourwebsite.

About TKAT

The Kemnal Academies Trust (TKAT) is one of the largest Multi-Academy Trusts in the South & East of England with 45 Primary and Secondary Academies in the TKAT Family. Our ultimate aim is to ensure we drive educational standards through the provision of outstanding teaching, leadership and learning for all. Within the#oneTKATfamily, the shared and common purpose is to work together as a community of schools to ensure that every child, whatever their background, receives a high quality education. We place a high value on collaboration;'achieving more together', giving staff the opportunity to come together and learn, ensuring a shared sense of purpose across our network and by sharing expertise across the TKAT family.

We have a flexible approach to interviews and can offer a range of dates and times to suit your personal circumstances.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive a significant number of applications.

Safeguarding

TKAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Offers of employment will be subject to the full safer recruitment process, including an enhanced disclosure and barring service check.

Flexible working

TKAT recognises the value of enabling our employees to develop their career and balance this with their commitments and interests outside of work. In TKAT we promote flexible working practices and opportunities to promote a positive work life balance.

Our Commitment - Equal, Inclusive, Diverse

TKAT is committed to inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity by encouraging and welcoming differences, listening to individual experiences, aspirations and accomplishments and learning how to grow better together. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates, regardless of any protected characteristic.

Access to interview

Be Who You Are at TKAT - should you be selected and invited to interview please let us know if you require us to adapt the recruitment process to enable you to participate as your authentic self. We want applicants to be able to engage with us in ways that support who they are and we are committed to making adjustments within the recruitment process and within the workplace.

Stapleford Abbotts School was built in 1887 and has been an important part of village life since its establishment. Over the past ten years, the school has become popular and there has been considerable amount of refurbishment and new build. The school attracts children from a wide catchment area and from the neighbouring London Boroughs of Redbridge, Dagenham, and Havering. We are committed to. Involving the wider community with school life and work closely with other agencies including other rural schools in the Epping area.