Commercial Events Officer

COMMERCIAL EVENTS OFFICER

Dates: Closing date is 8.00am on Monday 11 July but applications will be considered on receipt

Salary: £30,000-£33,000 p.a. depending on qualifications, skills and experience

Location: Highgate, North London

Contract type: Permanent – Full time. Flexible working can be discussed at interview. Normal working hours for this role are Monday to Friday 8.00am-5.00pm with one unpaid hour for lunch. Although the nature of the role will require flexibility of evening and weekend work to accommodate site visits and events. Time off in lieu may be given at your line manager’s discretion.

The role:                    

This is an excellent opportunity to join an award-winning charity; working closely with the Head of Commercial to help our Commercial department in increasing the potential for generation of non-fee income.

If you are interested in working in a fast-paced environment at one of the country's top independent schools where kindness is at the heart of what we do, then this is an ideal opportunity for you.  

You will have excellent administrative, communication and customer service skills to ensure a positive experience for clients hiring our premises. Calm and organised, you will be a people-person with a flexible, pro-active and can-do approach. You will thrive in a busy environment and you will enjoy developing your skills

To apply:  For further information and an application form, please visit our website: https://www.highgateschool.org.uk/work-with-us/

THE SCHOOL

A culture of community, kindness and belonging

Highgate is a different kind of independent school. We are a school whose charitable ethos is an inextricable part of both staff and pupil DNA. Highgate doesn’t exist in a bubble, but is connected to, and part of, a community. We have partnerships with over 60 state schools across 7 London boroughs, and, in 2017, Highgate co-founded the free sixth form school, The London Academy of Excellence Tottenham (LAET), with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club as principal business sponsor.

From the Pre-Prep right up to the Sixth Form, we are actively seeking to embed a real sense of belonging at Highgate.

Everyone who works and studies with us deserves to feel they are part of an environment that:

• welcomes them
• enables them to be themselves
• understands them
• encourages questioning, self-knowledge, and self-expression
• helps them not just to manage, but to thrive, to discover and pursue their passions, and to develop as individuals and members of a community.

To do this, we are evaluating diversity in our professional, curricular and co-curricular life, exploring how to attract pupils and staff from all backgrounds to work and learn at Highgate and providing opportunities to share our own experiences as well as learning from alternative perspectives. Our work on inclusion at Highgate involves pupils, staff, alumni, parents and carers.

Award-winning success

Founded over 450 years ago in 1565 by Sir Roger Cholmeley, Highgate is one of the UK’s leading co-educational independent schools for pupils aged 4-18. There are currently in the region of 1,900 pupils split across our Pre-Preparatory School, Junior School and Senior School sites, in conjunction with approximately 600 teaching and support staff. We are proud to be able to claim some of the top academic results across the UK, as well as titles of Independent School of the Year 2019 and Independent School of the Year for Social Mobility 2019. Highgate has recently been named the Sunday Times London Independent School of the Decade by Parent Power, The Sunday Times Schools Guide. “Ranking in the top 25 independent schools in the UK for its results in the examination hall, Highgate achieves well for its children. But it also makes a difference for many more children beyond its own gates.” Alistair McCall, The Sunday Times.

Highgate School supports anonymous recruitment. This means we hide your personal, identifying information to remove bias from the hiring process. We encourage applications from candidates who experience barriers and inequity due to their ethnicity, gender identity, physical or mental health, sexuality, and/or socio-economic background.

Highgate is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to this post, including checks with past employers, overseas police check if necessary and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Please note that this role is ‘exempt’ from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore, you are required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings that are not ‘protected’ (i.e. filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of all unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered, prior to the date of the interview.