Communications Assistant London, England
Job description
Title: Communications Assistant
Department: Marketing
Location: London, hybrid working
Full time, Permanent
Salary: £22,000 - £24,000
Tes is an international provider of digital solutions, which is passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions.
Role overview:
In this role, you will assist with the day-to-day running of the communications team.
Working closely with the Director of Communications and Communications Executive you will help on all administrative aspects of the communications activities and will liaise with colleagues across the wider marketing team as well as others in Tes when appropriate. You will thrive in a busy environment with multiple stakeholders.
The Communications Team oversees both Internal and External Communications:
Internal: Our activities are shared with colleagues across the Tes family (circa 600 employees in UK, Australia, India, and Rest of World). Our aim is to engage and excite our colleagues about all of Tes’s initiatives and bring them along on the exciting journey as we transform ourselves into a global SaaS (Software as a Service) education business. You will help to share news with colleagues across the business via our various channels.
External: Our aim is to inform schools, teachers and senior leaders, and other stakeholders where appropriate, about what Tes offers and how we can help them. As part of the team, you will help with all the administrative tasks of a busy press office and will be involved in the creation and sharing of stories generated for our new products and campaigns, as well as assisting with reporting and general organisation.
You will:
- Assist the communications team with the smooth running of all systems, for example:
- Press Contacts database
- PR Pipeline tracker
- Online Press Database system for media outreach campaigns (Agility)
- Media monitoring system for monthly PR reporting (Meltwater)
- Tes Superstars (monthly reward & recognition programme)
- Tes Bulletin (internal bi-monthly newsletter)
- Tes Intranet updates
- Office Screens updates
- Corporate website update
- Be a point of contact for the media, and other external education stakeholders (for example school associations and organisations, MAT groups, unions etc).
- Work with the Comms Executive to help create content such as press releases, blog posts, data-led reports and other written material to communicate our activity to the media and the wider Tes community (via email, social media, editorial etc.)
- Help create internal content
- Help produce the monthly and quarterly reports to evaluate campaigns.
What will you need to succeed?
Ideally you be a school leaver (with BTEC or A levels) with experience in an administrative, communications or media-facing role, or have recently gained a post-Graduate degree.
You will be energetic and enthusiastic, someone who wants to learn and develop as a communications professional.
You will be a team player, who has a can-do attitude and demonstrates initiative.
You will bring good administrative skills with attention to detail and the desire to improve processes and systems. Some project management skills are desirable as well as creative, collaborative and good communication skills. You will be a people person and have the desire to build relationships with colleagues in different teams across Tes.
You will be comfortable and ready to learn more about the full range of communications disciplines from media relations, event management, to social media, as well as video and content creation programmes.
It is important that you have good writing skills and good attention to detail.
Ideally, you will have some experience of:
- project management
- media liaison
- writing quality & engaging content
- external or internal communications planning and execution
- digital communications including social media and email
- creative idea generation and execution.
What do you get in return?
- 25 days annual leave rising to 30
- 5% pension after probation
- Hybrid working, 3 days in the office
- Health care cash plan
- State of the art city centre offices
- Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
- Discounted city centre parking
- Free eye care cover
- Life Assurance
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- EAP (Employee assistance programme)
- Monthly Tes Socials
- Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu
Tes powers schools and enables great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education.
For more than 100 years, we’ve supported schools and been a champion of great teaching. As education is changing, so are we. We’ve grown to provide a wide range of products to help schools and students flourish.
We work together with teachers and schools to build trusted education solutions that help them to be the best they can be. From safeguarding and compliance, to staff and pupil management, and professional development and SEND provision, our innovative and flexible services help teachers and school leaders worldwide to provide the best education to millions of children.
Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine.
Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai.
We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organisation striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes.
Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability. We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.
www.tes.com/tesglobal
