Job Reference schooltalent/TP/33365/2127
Number of Positions:
1
Contract Type:
Full Time Permanent
Working Hours:
36.25
Location:
Edinburgh
Closing Date:
08/10/2025
Department:
Marketing
Region / Division:
ESMS
Job Role:
Operational/Professional Services
The Role
Erskine Stewart’s Melville Schools are currently recruiting for a Marketing Assistant to join the Schools on a permanent basis. The positions will be available from November 2025 (subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks). The role is full-time, working 36.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday with a salary of £26,519.
The Marketing Assistant will provide general support to the Marketing Team in the delivery of the marketing strategy, working across a range of different marketing activities and platforms including digital and social media platforms, content creation and events.
The successful candidate will have experience working on multi-channel marketing campaigns and using social media in a professional capacity. Key strengths the successful candidate will have, include strong, diplomatic communication skills, the ability to design and deliver influential and engaging campaigns to key stakeholders and exceptional writing skills. Experience of working in an education setting is desirable but not essential.
To learn more about this role, please access the job description provided.
ESMS is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. The successful candidate will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right work in the UK.
Staff are offered a range of benefits including: a generous holiday allowance, enhanced sick pay, family friendly policies, use of the Schools’ swimming pool and fitness room outside school hours, membership of the ESMS Discount and Benefits Scheme, including a range of discounts at 130,000 retail and entertainment locations.
Values
We are looking for individuals who can embody and promote ESMS values of Kindness, Confidence, Resilience, Integrity, and Curiosity while role modelling behaviours in line with our school pillars of Ambition, Innovation, and Community.
ESMS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and Disclosure Scotland.
All staff working at ESMS have direct access to young people therefore all posts within the school are considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
In order to apply for the position, please complete the attached application form.
The closing date for applications is Wednesday 8 October 2025. We anticipate interviews will be held week commencing 27 October.
About ESMS
Welcome to the ESMS, a vibrant family of independent schools, set in beautiful grounds in the heart of Edinburgh. We offer a co-educational nursery and junior school, single-sex but closely twinned secondary education, and a co-educational sixth form.
We are a consistently award-winning School, with an educational legacy that stretches back more than 300 years. Our Schools have always been pioneers of rounded education. Children’s education is underpinned by our values: kindness, confidence, resilience, integrity and curiosity. From virtual reality headsets in the classroom to developing one of the first outdoor learning programmes in Scotland, we are always searching for new ways to develop the whole child.
The people that work for us are passionate, pioneering and strive for excellence in everything they do. We value the incredible contributions they make to school life, we invest in their careers and we support their ambitions so that they flourish professionally and personally.
Employees get access to a range of benefits including:
* Fee remission from Nursery to S6
* Free school lunches
* Free Sports’ Club membership, including access to pool and fitness suites
* Family friendly policies, including enhanced maternity leave
* Membership of the ESMS Discount and Benefits Scheme, including a range of discounts at 130,000 retail and entertainment locations
* Employee Assistance Service
* Cycle to work scheme
* Car leasing salary sacrifice scheme
* Annual professional review process
* Regular salary reviews
* Funding towards professional qualifications
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