Job Description

Rugby School Group

Warwickshire

Job type:

Full Time, Permanent

Apply by:

22 October 2025

Job overview

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Salary: up to 75,000 per annum FTE, depending on skills and experience.


Nestled within 80 acres of Suffolk countryside, Old Buckenham Hall (OBH) is one of East Anglia's leading co-educational preparatory schools and is home to around 200 boarding and day children aged 2 to 13. OBH has a proud 160-year history and children leave ready to thrive at some of the UK's most prestigious senior schools, taking with them not just a strong foundation of knowledge, but also the friendships and values that last a lifetime.

Building on that legacy, in January 2026, OBH will formally become part of the Rugby School Group. Best known for its historic senior school in Warwickshire, Rugby is one of the great names in British education, with a reputation for innovation, breadth, and the "Whole Person, Whole Point" ethos. This is an incredibly exciting time for OBH, the merger means the best of both worlds: the intimacy and character of a small country prep school, backed by the support, investment, and vision of a global education group.

This is no ordinary prep school marketing role: OBH is seeking to appoint an exceptional Director of Marketing and Admissions to drive the development and implementation of its marketing, recruitment and communications strategies. The Rugby School Group merger creates the opportunity to be part of shaping and delivering the next chapter of OBH's history, and to deliver a bold recruitment and marketing strategy that builds on the school's traditions while ensuring OBH thrives in an increasingly competitive landscape.

Reporting directly to the Head and sitting on the Senior Leadership Team, this is a high profile and exciting leadership position suited to a high calibre marketing professional who can demonstrate established and effective leadership skills, combined with extensive marketing and communications experience, commercial acumen, stakeholder management and influencing skills gained inside or outside the education sector.





Applications are encouraged from candidates who want to work on either a full- or part-time basis (minimum 4 days a week). A hybrid working arrangement may also be considered.

Further information and details of how to apply can be found on the RSAcademics website at rsacademics.com. https://www.rsacademics.com/current-vacancies/head-mark-comms-old-buckenham-hall/

Interested candidates are invited to contact RSAcademics in the first instance to arrange an informal and confidential discussion with Susannah Thompson via: susannahthompson@rsacademics.com

The deadline for receipt of applications is 10.00am on Wednesday 22 October 2025.

Old Buckenham Hall is 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 & Barring Service.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.


The safeguarding responsibilities of this post are detailed in the candidate information brochure.

RSAcademics is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and to promoting diversity and inclusion in schools.

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About

Rugby School Group

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Rugby School Group

The Bursary, 10 Little Church Street, Rugby
Warwickshire
CV21 3AW
United Kingdom

+44 1788 556 216

Bilton Grange

Bilton Grange is a wonderful Prep School situated just south of Rugby; we currently have around 315 children from 3 to 13. The Pre-Prep, housed in its own Edwardian buildings caters predominantly for day children from Reception to Year 3 inclusive; Year 4 upwards are in the Prep and are a combination of day, boarding and flexi-boarding pupils. Presently we have in the region of 50 full and weekly boarders, with another 35 flexi-boarding on a regular basis. It is possible, although uncommon, for children to commence boarding whether flexi or fully in Year 3.



Bilton Grange has always offered strong academic teaching as part of a broad education that few other schools can match and encourages the highest aspirations in pupils within a friendly environment. Our website www.biltongrange.co.uk provides a further window into our world and a video on the school within this site.

Rugby School

Rugby's principal activity is the education and care of its pupils. Its primary objective to develop rounded individuals who are also useful members of the community. All its assets, its income and expenditure are directed to that purpose. A famous independent school, it preserves many traditions including that of constant innovation. It values academic excellence while striving for distinction in every sphere. According to The Good Schools' Guide, it is the 'number one choice among all the co-ed boarding schools'.



Rugby, probably more than any other school in the land, focusses on helping our students become 'whole ' people - people who are multi-faceted in their interests, talents and ambitions. Here, we do not just say ' the whole person is the whole point', we live it, every hour of every day.



To learn more about Rugby School and the Rugby School Group please visit www.rugbyschool.co.uk.Please note that you are wholly responsible for fact checking in respect of the information provided by schools. Please also check for the latest visa and work permit requirements that may apply. Tes is not responsible for the content of advertisements or the policies adopted by advertising schools. Tes asks that all schools follow

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