Job Description

Hitchin Boys' School

Hertfordshire
21,540 - 22,590 per year

Salary:

H4 (FTE 25,183 - 26,409)

Job type:

Part Time, Permanent

Start date:

September 2025

Apply by:

7 July 2025

Job overview

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Marketing and Communications Officer

37 hours per week, Mon-Fri

39 weeks/year (term time + 5 days)

21,540 - 22,590

(Grade H4: 25,183 to 26,409 FTE)

Hitchin Boys' School (HBS) is a high achieving, all ability, single sex school with over 1,300 students on roll. In collaboration with our partner schools, we have a mixed sixth form. Our history stretches back nearly 400 years, but we embrace fresh thinking and a modern, vibrant curriculum. We have high expectations, excellent standards of behaviour and pride in our extra-curricular activities that lead to academically successful and well-rounded students, who are well equipped for life beyond school.


We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity to join our school as a Marketing and Communications Officer to take the lead in administering social media, coordinating events, designing promotional materials, branding, parent communication platforms and school newsletters. The job holder will develop and execute marketing initiatives that effectively promote the school's brand, enhance its reputation, attract prospective students and staff and strengthen engagement with the school community.


We are seeking to recruit someone who has proven experience in marketing, communications or public relations and strong writing, content creation and design skills. The successful candidate will have strong interpersonal skills, attention to detail and the ability to work collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders including senior leadership, teachers and external partners.

What can HBS offer you?

A school with great traditions, excellent reputation but with a modern outlook A dedicated, well qualified and experienced staff who share the goal enshrined in our school motto "Per Ardua Ad Alta" - Striving for Excellence Free Employee Assistance Programme, accessible 24/7 A campus that combines state of the art facilities with historic Grade II listed buildings An SLT commitment to supporting the mental, physical & emotional wellbeing of staff/students

Application deadline: 9am on Monday 7th July 2025

Applications should be submitted via

My New Term
Further information on our school can be found on the school website https://www.hbs.herts.sch.uk

HBS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be carried out for all posts.

HBS welcomes applications from all applicants who meet the requirements for the position, however we are especially keen to receive applications from those in minority groups for which the school is currently underrepresented. We celebrate diversity and thrive on the benefits it brings.

About

Hitchin Boys' School

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Hitchin Boys' School

Grammar School Walk, Hitchin
Hertfordshire
SG5 1JB
United Kingdom

+44 1462 432181

Overview:

Hitchin Boys' School is a high achieving, all-ability, single sex school with over 1,300 pupils (aged 11-18) on roll and a mixed sixth form, which forms part of the Hitchin Schools' consortium.



We want all our pupils to leave Hitchin Boys' School having had a rich and fulfilling experience that enables them to enter an ever-changing world being

Strong

and

True

. We want them to leave as ambassadors for the future, embracing our core values to make a positive difference, leading and shaping the communities and world they encounter. We want them to have strength of character and a versatile and agile mind. Through this, they will flourish.



The school honours our history, but is also ambitious for our future, and strives for excellence by ensuring we have:


A school where everyone matters; the whole community can be true to themselves and others

High Expectations

Aspirational outcomes

First rate opportunities underpinned by high quality resources.


Teaching and learning remain at the heart of everything we do. Pupils are exposed to a broad and challenging curriculum, drawing on the very best practices and research. We review out provision ensuring every key stage provides academic rigour, breadth and depth, whilst promoting strong literacy and oracy skills. Through personalisation we will ensure all members of the school community can fully access and participate in the curriculum.

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