We recruit bright, committed individuals, and support them to fulfil their potential.
The Key could be your opportunity to make a profound difference to the working lives of 125,000 school leaders and governors, and others across the education sector.
Join our team today and help us make a difference.
We are a team of socially conscious, passionate people, who are all motivated to do something incredible.
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Senior Marketing Executive (GovernorHub)
Our values
Member focus
A commitment to understanding members’ needs and challenges, helping them deliver for their pupils, schools and communities
A growth mindset
A commitment to open thinking and continuous learning, development and innovation
Uncompromising standards
A commitment to knowledge, service, value and delivery
Working together
A commitment to collaboration and teamwork while celebrating our breadth of opinions, perspectives and backgrounds
Employee benefits
Work-life balance
We understand that life isn’t just about work and believe that quality time outside the office is vital to our employees’ happiness.
That’s why we offer:
- 25 days annual leave in your first year, increasing to 28 days from your second year
- 5 additional ‘Key’ days off a year
- The option to buy or sell annual leave
We also offer a generous parental leave policy, including:
- Up to 20 weeks full pay for maternity and adoption leave
- 6 weeks full pay for paternity leave
- Parental coaching to help new parents navigate this period of change
Wellbeing
The overall wellbeing of our employees is extremely important to us, so we offer a wide range of benefits to support you physically, mentally and financially.
These include:
- Access to Bippit, a financial wellbeing tool to help you feel confident in creating and achieving meaningful financial goals
- Access to 24/7 practical support and counselling sessions through our EAP
- Access to BUPA Dental: dental insurance with a flexible range of cover levels available through your own dentist or over 470 Bupa clinics across the country
- Free flu jabs
- Life assurance for the worst case scenario, paid at 3 times your basic annual salary
- Matched pension contributions up to 5%
Professional development
We are passionate about professional development and want to make the most of our employees’ talents, so we help towards the cost of professional qualifications, training courses, books and anything else that might support your career growth.
We also encourage our employees to become school governors and provide 4 extra annual leave days for governor duties.
Team building
We have some amazing employees and want to enjoy each other’s company, so we make up some good excuses to have fun together.
Our social committee gets creative in organising:
- Seasonal socials
- Sports days
- Crafting sessions
- After-work drinks
- Welcome lunches for new starters
I love working at The Key, it is great to know that we make such a huge difference to our schools every day. We are also looked after in a way I have never experienced before; the generosity from the company knows no bounds.
The Key is genuinely the best place I have worked at during my 10 year marketing career so far. You’re treated as a human; trusted, encouraged and given loads of opportunities to grow.
It’s a place where you are actively encouraged to progress, grow within the business and be really well supported.
The Key is a great place to work if you want to be surrounded by people who are passionate, innovative and supportive. I haven’t come from an education background so I was worried that I would face challenges, however, my team and senior staff are all so helpful and informative and have made me feel very settled! The company is also super flexible, allowing me to have a great work-life balance.
Our recruitment process
Our recruitment process is designed to help make sure that we hire the best people to work at The Key, and to give you an idea of what the role would entail.
CV and cover letter
Once you find a position that you’d like to apply for, we usually ask you to submit your CV and cover letter letting us know why you want to work for The Key and how your experience fits. A member of our team will then review your application.
Telephone interview
We may then contact you to organise a short telephone interview. The aim here is for us to find out more about you, and for you to ask any questions about the role or company.
Mission
The mission is a timed written or technical task, designed to test your skills and ways of thinking and to give you an idea of what you’d be doing day to day at The Key. You’ll be able to complete this at home, at a suitable time for you. Note: for some roles, you’ll do the mission before the phone interview.
Face-to-face (or video) interview
If you’re successful, we’ll invite you to an interview with a panel of around 3 people to talk through your mission and your experience in more depth.
Meet the CEO
As the final stage, our CEO likes to meet all candidates before we make a job offer. This is less formal than the other stages and will give you a chance to ask any further questions.