Recruitment at Wellington College

Wellington College is one of the UK’s great boarding schools, and is set in over 400 acres of beautiful parkland in Berkshire. It is a co-educational school for students aged13-18 years and is renowned for its pioneering approach and all-round excellence.

Wellington College seeks to be a vibrant, inspiring and challenging place which opens the minds and hearts of its pupils. Wellington College is a global leading IB school, and achieves consistently outstanding academic results in both IBDP and A Level, while also truly excelling in the arts, music and sports.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Marketing & Admissions Assistant

Location: Epe, Lagos
Job type: Full-time (onsite)
Department: zMarketing

Job Objective

• The Marketing & Admissions (M&A) Assistant supports both the Marketing and Admissions teams in delivering a seamless parent experience.
• This role provides operational support across events, data, communication logistics, and basic digital tasks.

Key Responsibilities
Admissions Support:

• Manage RSVP lists, attendance records, and booking confirmations for admissions events.
• Support documentation collection and preparation of application materials.
• Maintain accurate CRM records and assist with data entry, tagging, and basic updates.

Marketing Operations Support:

• Help manage email lists, parent communications, and basic CRM workflow tasks under direction of the Performance Marketing Manager.
• Prepare materials for campaigns and communications (labels, mailing lists, printing tasks).

Event Coordination (Marketing + Admissions):

• Support onsite logistics for Open Days, webinars, community events, parent workshops, and school tours.
• Manage RSVP lists, attendee data, and postevent followups.
• Prepare event materials (signage, name tags, collateral, checkin sheets).
• Coordinate with vendors for printing, photography, and supplies.
• Provide event-day support: checkin, guiding families, recording attendance, and capturing basic content.

General Administrative Support:

• Manage calendars, bookings, room reservations, and logistics for Marketing and Admissions events.
• Support filing, document organisation, and digital archiving.
• Assist the Director of Marketing and Director of Admissions with operational tasks as needed.

Requirements
Experience and Skills:

• Highly organised and detailfocused with strong follow-through
• Flexible and able to support both Marketing and Admissions priorities.
• Comfortable interacting with prospective parents.
• Good communication and multitasking skills.
• Basic knowledge of CRM tools, CMS platforms, or digital systems (training provided).
• Experience with Microsoft Office; CMS/CRM familiarity a plus
• The successful candidate will also have to pass our safeguarding standards.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Admissions Officer

Location: Epe, Lagos
Job type: Full-time (onsite)
Department: Administration

Role Objective  

• The Admissions Officer plays a key role in delivering an exceptional and personalised experience for prospective families.
• This role manages inquiries, tours, documentation, and parent communication throughout the admissions journey.
• The Admissions Officer works closely with the Marketing team to support pipeline efficiency, event coordination, and CRM accuracy.

Key Responsibilities
Parent Engagement & Frontline Service:

• Act as the first point of contact for prospective families, providing a warm, professional, and personalised experience.
• Deliver highquality information about the school’s vision, curriculum, programmes, and admissions requirements.
• Conduct tours, followup calls, and parent meetings.
• Build strong, servicefocused relationships with prospective families to support conversion goals.

Admissions Process Management:

• Manage inquiries, applications, assessments, interviews, and enrolment paperwork endtoend.
• Maintain timely, accurate updates in the admissions CRM, ensuring all records, tags, and statuses are correctly applied.
• Coordinate with academic and administrative teams to schedule assessments, interviews, and placement steps.
• Support the preparation and issuance of offer letters, enrolment contracts, and required documentation.

Admissions Events & School Representation:

• Support planning, coordination, and execution of oncampus and offcampus admissions events (Open Days, tours, community outreach).
• Assist with event logistics, including RSVP management, registration, parent followup, event-day support, and materials preparation.
• Deliver professional and engaging experiences at events, representing the school’s values and brand.

Data, Reporting & CRM Collaboration:

• Ensure accurate and timely data entry for all parent interactions, events, and documentation.
• Support basic reporting on parent inquiries, applications, conversion rates, and enrolment progress.
• Work closely with the Performance Marketing Manager to maintain clean data flows between Marketing and Admissions.
• Contribute insights to improve parent journeys and conversion performance.

New Family Onboarding:

• Assist with orientation sessions and onboarding communication to ensure smooth transitions for new families.
• Coordinate welcome materials, schedules, and school briefings for newly enrolled students.

Administration & Team Support:

• Provide administrative support to the Head of Admissions and the wider team.
• Perform other duties aligned with the role as required during busy periods (including occasional evenings/weekends).

Requirements
Qualification, Experience, and Skills:

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s degree required.
• Experience in admissions, customer service, or student recruitment (education sector preferred).
• Highly organised and detailoriented.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust and rapport with families.
• Customerservice mindset with a warm, professional manner.
• Comfortable supporting events and handling occasional weekend/afterhours activities.
• Experience using CRM systems, digital tools, and basic data management.
• The successful candidate will also have to pass our safeguarding standards.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Communication Manager

Location: Epe, Lagos
Job type: Full Time (On-site)
Department: Marketing

Role Objective

• The Communications Manager leads all external and internal communications during the pre‑opening phase. This includes content strategy, media management, PR, storytelling, and safeguarding the school’s reputation.
• The role ensures consistent, polished, parent‑focused messaging across all channels.

Key Responsibilities
Strategic Communications & Content:

• Guarantee consistency in messaging and branding throughout all communication materials.
• Develop and own the pre‑opening communications strategy and editorial calendar.
• Generate and curate high‑quality written content for diverse internal communication channels, including social media, academic booklets, newsletters, emails, announcements, and presentations.
• Craft storytelling that strengthens WCIL’s positioning and supports admissions goals.
• Be able to turn around impactful content in short period of time.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key internal stakeholders, including department heads, faculty, and parent-teacher associations, to ensure alignment and collaboration in communication efforts.

Media & PR Management:

• Manage relationships with journalists, media outlets, and community partners.
• Write and distribute press releases and media statements.
• Prepare leadership for media engagements; provide messaging guidance.
• Support crisis or sensitive communications with appropriate judgement.

Social Media Management:

• Lead social media content planning, posting, monitoring, and tone of voice.
• Manage community engagement and escalation issues.

Collaboration & Brand Governance:

• Work closely with the Graphic Designer to ensure visual and editorial consistency.
• Ensure all communications align with WCIL brand values and messaging standards.

Metrics and Analytics:

• Evaluate the effectiveness of communication efforts through data-driven reporting and analysis and then apply data-driven adjustments to communications strategies as necessary.
• Deliver regular reports on key communication metrics to line manager.
• Any other duties commensurate with the post
• N.B: The job description is not exhaustive and may be amended following appropriate consultation in the light of business needs.

Requirements
Experience and Skills

• 5–7+ years in communications, PR, media relations, or a similar role in house or from within Agency
• Experience managing multiple native and international social media channels.
• Experience developing content from concept to storyboard through to release.
• Experience managing press, crisis comms, or sensitive public messaging.
• Strong writing, editing and narrative building skills.
• Strong ability to self-manage multiple information streams and multiple tasks.
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to work at a fast pace to deliver outcomes.
• Proactive, confident communicator with mature judgement and discretion.
• Familiarity with education industry

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: The successful candidate will also have to pass our safeguarding standards.

Job Title: Graphic Designer

Location: Epe, Lagos
Job type: Full Time (On-site)
Department: Marketing

Role Objective

• The Graphic Designer (Multimedia Designer) is responsible for producing high-quality visual assets that support Wellington College International Lagos’ brand, marketing campaigns, admissions activities, and community storytelling.
• This role ensures visual consistency across all touchpoints and contributes to the school’s strong, premium brand identity.
• The Designer works closely with the Communications and Performance Marketing Managers to support digital, print, social, and event-related creative needs.

Key Responsibilities
Brand Design & Visual Identity:

• Produce high-quality visual assets aligned with the brand identity and tone.
• Maintain brand consistency across campaigns, admissions materials, web assets, and social media.
• Develop and update templates for presentations, posters, signage, newsletters, and internal communications.

Digital Creative Production:

• Design graphics for social media, paid advertising, website banners, and email campaigns.
• Create engaging layouts for storytelling content in collaboration with the Communication and Performance Marketing Manager
• Prepare optimised digital assets for use across Meta, Google, and other platforms.

Print & Collateral Design:

• Design admissions brochures, flyers, programme guides, event collateral, and environmental signage.
• Prepare print-ready files and manage revisions as needed.
• Liaise with printers and vendors to ensure quality production and timely delivery.

Event & Campaign Support:

• Produce creative assets for Open Days, school tours, workshops, and community events.
• Support the Communications team with onsite materials, branded visuals, and signage.
• Collaborate with the Marketing & Admissions Assistant on event logistics related to design deliverables.

Multimedia & Light Video Editing:

• Capture simple photos or short clips when needed to support content creation.
• Perform basic video editing for social media, highlight reels, or short storytelling content.
• Support freelancers and external agencies for larger video projects.

Asset Management & Workflow Support:

• Maintain the digital asset library, ensuring assets are organised, tagged, and easy to access.
• Manage version control and ensure design files are properly archived.
• Support efficient production workflows, meeting deadlines across multiple projects.
• Any other duties commensurate with the post
• N.B: The job description is not exhaustive and may be amended following appropriate consultation in the light of business needs.

Requirements
Experience and Skills:

• Ability to translate conceptual briefs into high-quality visual outcomes.
• Skilled in preparing assets for both print and digital use.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating both print and digital design capabilities.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign; Premiere/After Effects a plus).
• Experience designing for campaigns, social media, and branded collateral.
• Experience in an education, agency, or brand-focused environment preferred.
• Basic photography or video editing skills are beneficial.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: The successful candidate will also have to pass our safeguarding standards.

Job Title: Performance Marketing Manager

Location: Epe, Lagos
Job type: Full Time (On-site)
Department: Marketing

Role Objective

• The Performance Marketing Manager owns all digital acquisition and conversion channels, including the pre‑opening website, SEO/SEM, paid campaigns, tracking, analytics, CRM setup, and lead nurturing.
• This role is central to building and managing the admissions pipeline.

Key Responsibilities
Website & SEO Management

• Own the school website (structure, updates, UX hygiene, and content improvements).
• Build high-converting landing pages for campaigns and open days and optimise for conversions.
• Maintain SEO best practice, including metadata, technical checks, load speed, and indexing.
• Partner with Communications for visuals and messaging alignment.

CRM Ownership & Automation Journeys:

• Implement and maintain the CRM system, including form setup, automated workflows, and tagging.
• Develop nurturing journeys across the parent funnel: inquiry → open day → application.
• Maintain data quality, reporting dashboards, and pipeline visibility dashboards.
• Ensure data integrity, compliance, and seamless lead routing to the Admissions team.

Paid Media Strategy & Analytics:

• Plan, execute, and optimise paid media campaigns across Meta/Google, YouTube, WhatsApp, TikTok
• Manage campaign budgets, pacing, and performance metrics (CPL, MQL rate, ROAS).
• Monitor campaign performance daily and implement strategic adjustments.
• Analyse funnel performance and recommend optimisation actions.
• Collaborate withthe  Designer for creative assets and with Communications for messaging.

Data, Tracking & Analytics:

• Lead all digital tracking (UTMs, Google Tag Manager, pixels, custom events).
• Build real-time dashboards for leadership and Admissions.
• Analyse fullfunnel performance and recommend data-driven improvements.
• Produce weekly insights reports and termly strategic analysis.

Innovation & Digital Advancement:

• Evaluate and pilot emerging tools (e.g., AI/automation, new ad formats, personalisation) that improve performance or efficiency.
• Introduce and scale proven innovations across CRM, website, and journeys to enhance the parent experience.
• Benchmark and recommend best-in-class practices from leading schools/brands to drive continuous improvement.
• The successful candidate will also have to pass our safeguarding standards.

Requirements
Experience and Skills:

• 5–7+ years in digital marketing, paid media, growth marketing, or CRM management.
• Hands-on analytics experience (dashboards, attribution, and performance optimisation.
• Experience with marketing automation and CMS/CRM systems.
• Demonstrate ability to test and adopt practical innovations within budget.
• Highly analytical, detail‑oriented, and solutions‑driven.
• Clear communicator; collaborative and proactive.
• Able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced school environment.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online