Media and Resources Officer

Working With Us

Harris Academy Battersea is a mixed state secondary school serving a truly comprehensive community in the heart of London. We are an Ofsted ‘Outstanding' school with a track record of delivering fantastic outcomes year on year for our students.

Our Academy is centred on the values ofKnowledge, Integrity and Resilienceand these underpin the way we work for both students and staff. Our staff are inclusive, diverse and committed to our mission: we develop aspirational young people to thrive in a changing world.

HABS offers a broad, academic and challenging curriculum founded on six key curriculum aims:

• To develop deep, long-lasting knowledge
• To develop students into accomplished readers, writers and orators
• To provide experiences within and beyond the classroom that enrich learning and ensure students can make informed choices about their futures
• To equip students to challenge injustice in all its forms
• To enable students to understand how they learn
• To support students to reflect on their choices and values to improve themselves and their community

These aims underpin all elements of our curriculum, andwe see our core academic curriculum and wider personal development curriculum as intrinsically linked. All staff at the Academy contribute to the personal development of our students through their roles as tutors and through their contributions to the wider life of the academy.

A thriving school can only function with fantastic staff, and our vision is to make teaching at HABS bothenjoyable and sustainable. The wellbeing of staff underpins every decision we make, and we seek to ensure that every member of staff can enjoy a work-life-balance enabling them to bring their best to work each day.

At HABS,professional growth and developmentis central to our mission. Our professional development motto is ‘improve, not prove' and leaders are relentlessly focussed on supporting staff in getting even better through a wide range of internal and external training opportunities.

As a part of theHarris Federation, all staff in the Academy benefit from being part of our network of more than fifty primary and secondary academies across London. Vibrant networks of subject experts meet regularly, and teachers can access bespoke support from our central teams of consultants.

Main Areas of Responsibility

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing, creating and maintaining the school website
• Contributing to the group of associate staff who are available to cover reception and first aid duties as required
• Supporting Social Media Engagement and implement creative digital solutions
• Providing digital graphic design support to departments and the school
• Producing content for the digital signage across the school site
• Producing, delivering and overseeing displays across the school site.
• Conducting regular auditing and quality assurance of displays and artwork across the school site
• Editing video footage for exam and marketing purposes
• Co-ordinating the production of the school prospectus and newsletter both digitally and in print
• Working with staff across the school to organise photographic shoots and video opportunities
• Overseeing the process of taking and updating student and staff photos
• Liaising with external photographers as required in the production of professional external media materials
• Overseeing and managing the reprographics office
• Delivery of reprographics services to staff including exam printing
• Liaising with external printing agencies to support the production of bespoke materials for the Academy
• Overseeing and monitoring reprographics devices across the site, supporting the resources team in auditing and monitoring device usage and condition.
• Liaising closely with senior leaders to deliver the Academy’s branding strategy across all relevant areas
• Providing design and media services as required and requested by Senior Leaders

What We are Looking For

We would like to hear from you if you have:

• English GCSE Grade C / 5 or above.
• An appropriate standard of academic qualifications
• Competency in website design and maintenance
• Competency in designing artwork digitally
• Good level of administration skills
• Excellent knowledge of IT packages e.g. Word, Excel, Publisher, InDesign
• Excellent literacy and numeracy skills commensurate with the post.
• Excellent general technological knowledge – general knowledge of operating systems, networking, hardware and software.
• At least two years’ experience of working in an inner-city school or educational establishment with children and young people
• Experience of reception duties including dealing with visitors to the Academy in a professional manner
• Experience of taking telephone messages from a range of stakeholders
• Experience of designing and printing basic documents
• Experience of organising a busy service area effectively
• Experience of liaising with printing maintenance contractors

Applying for this Position

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.

In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includesour Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, electric car scheme, and many other benefits. Learn more aboutour benefitson our webs...