Marketing Assistant

Job description / Role

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a marketing assistant to join our external relations team at Kent College, Canterbury.

The marketing assistant is key in supporting recruitment to the school through development of the school website, social media, marketing campaigns, events and local outreach.

The successful candidate will be comfortable with manual tasks and the administrative elements of the role, and will be a confident communicator. An interest in film, photography and social media influencing is desirable.

Why choose us

Kent College is a co-educational school with a Methodist foundation. The school is located in Canterbury, just one hour from the centre of London by train. The senior school (11u201318 years) has some 600 boys and girls, approximately one-third boarding and two-thirds day. This is a fabulous opportunity to work for a happy, caring and successful school in which pupils feel supported and encouraged to aim for high standards of achievement and conduct.

The school was graded as excellent in all categories in the recent inspection conducted by ISI in October 2022, the independent schools inspectorate that conducts inspections on behalf of the Secretary of State for Education.

We offer a range of benefits at KC, including: private healthcare with Benenden Health, retail and gym membership discounts, free lunch during term time, salary sacrifice schemes such as cycle to work and home and tech scheme, among many others.

The position

The position is 32 hours per week over 4 days, full year. The hours of work will be 8:30am to 4:30pm.

Closing date: 17th October 2025, although if a pool of suitable candidates becomes available before that date the college reserves the right to interview and appoint without further notice.

Interviews will be held the week commencing 20th October 2025.

Safeguarding statement

Kent College Canterbury is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Kent College staff and pupils are proud to be part of a welcoming international boarding community. We value diversity and promote equality at all levels, and we are passionate about attracting a diverse pool of applications through an inclusive appointment process. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of this process for any candidate with a disability. We warmly welcome applications from professionals of all backgrounds and communities, regardless of ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion, and we particularly encourage applicants who identify as Black, Asian, or minority ethnic groups as these groups are currently underrepresented in our community.

Please note that we may prioritise applications from current Kent College redeployees. We will let you know if this post is to be filled by a redeployee as, in this instance, your application will unfortunately not be taken forward.

Applications must be made via Kent College's online application system; CVs or details sent directly to the department or via email cannot be considered.