Commercial Events and Venues Manager
Harrow School
Harrow
- Expired
- Salary:
- Please contact the Recruitment Team for salary information
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 31 July 2026
Job overview
Full time, all year round - 40 hours per week, with some evening and weekend work to oversee events
The role: Harrow School Enterprises raises funds for the development of the School and the provision of a world-class education experience using its beautiful estate, listed buildings and associated facilities. The School has an esteemed reputation for expertly hosting weddings, tours, national and international sports events, conferences, film locations and charity events. The Commercial Events and Venues Manager has a pivotal role in overseeing this wide variety of activities; promoting events online, liaising with clients, organising paperwork and logistics, and connecting with departments across the site to deliver memorable, smoothly delivered events that exceed the clients’ expectations. This is not a typical events role as most events take place during the school holidays, leaving welcome down time during the term to manage paperwork, plan, innovate, and keep more regular office hours. For more information please review the job description attached as a separate document to the advertisement on the School vacancies page.
The skills: This role will suit a candidate who relishes the opportunity to develop a broad portfolio of experience within their career rather than specialising in one type of event management. It is an ideal position for someone who loves variety, with no two days the same, working within a small team in beautiful surroundings. You will have solid hands-on experience of taking responsibility for motivating your team, managing events end-to-end ideally in a busy venue setting. You will be used to working with director-level managers; proposing new business opportunities, providing budgetary information and overseeing a superlative customer experience for our clients. Your excellent organisation abilities will allow you to manage multiple tasks with the correct paperwork so everyone is communicated with efficiently. Your strong written and verbal communication skills and tactful, approachable manner will enable you to build strong professional relationships throughout the School.
The benefits include:
Free lunch
Free parking
Automatic enrolment in the School’s pension scheme
Use of the School’s sports facilities such as the swimming pool, gym, and running track.
Subsidised membership of the tennis, golf, angling and social clubs.
The environment: Harrow School is situated in Harrow on the Hill, northwest London, and is one of the best-known schools in the world. Around 835 boys study at Harrow and live in the School’s 12 boarding houses.
Harrow School Enterprises Limited (HSEL) is the trading company of Harrow School. It is responsible for raising additional funds for the School through commercial activities such as events, filming, tours, weddings, educational courses, residential tenant groups and sports facilities hire. HSEL is also the head office for Harrow School Short Courses (HSSC), which is one of the leading providers of summer language courses for international students aged 8-17 years
Closing date: Midnight, Friday 31 July 2026.
Applications will be processed as they are received and interviews may take place before the closing date, so early application is recommended.
Equality, diversity and inclusion are values that are important to us at Harrow. We believe in diversity of thought and actively welcome everyone regardless of their background to bring their valuable and relevant skills to our community.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All successful applicants must be willing to undergo enhanced child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with any past employer and the Disclosure and Barring Service, and it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
No member of staff will be able to start until these checks are complete and this process takes, on average, a month. Please plan accordingly.
Attached documents
About Harrow School
Harrow School is one of the best-known schools in the world. It is situated on a 324-acre estate in Harrow on the Hill in north-west London, and employees particularly value the School’s beautiful green estate, the positive working environment, and good relationships with their colleagues.
Harrow is an independent boarding secondary school for boys aged 13-18, all of whom live in the School’s 12 boarding houses. It was established by royal charter in 1572 for the education of 30 poor boys in the parish of Harrow on the Hill. This original purpose of offering a life-changing education to boys from every background continues today; in 2023/23, 340 of our 834 pupils benefited from some form of fee assistance.
While Harrow’s rich academic education leads to top examination results and entry to the best universities in the world, our focus is on pastoral excellence with the wellbeing of our boys at its core. The School also offers a host of co-curricular opportunities, allowing each pupil to follow or discover his own particular interest, and boys regularly achieve sporting success at a national level. All this is underpinned by world-class facilities.
Knowing that we are part of a much wider community, our Shaftesbury Enterprise partnership programme is a key element of our curriculum that encourages all Harrovians – pupils and staff – to participate in projects to support young people to flourish in every area of their life, whatever their circumstances.
Harrow also has a family of schools that offer a similar outstanding education across Asia, the Middle East and the USA.
Head Master
Alastair Land
Values and vision
Harrow School believes that the success of students should be measured not purely by grades but by their influence on the wider world.
The School believes that all organisations need strong and clearly expressed values to create identity, focus, unity and drive, and answer the questions: what do we belong to, what’s important to us?; why do our collective efforts matter?; what holds us together?
Harrow’s four Values of courage, honour, humility and fellowship aim to help the School make decisions from day to day that mean members of its community behave and perform better. These Values link closely to Harrow School’s Christian foundation and the principles of ‘godliness and good learning’ established by its founder, John Lyon.
ISI report
‘Pupils are high achievers in all areas of their academic lives. Their success owes much to the strong and supportive boarding community to which they all belong, and which gives the encouragement to work hard and aim high, and the confidence to set themselves ambitious goals.’
‘Pupils invariably work hard and utilise their strong motivation and desire to succeed, and this is one of the main drivers in their success. The strong progress they make, and their all-round excellent achievement, is enabled by many innovative approaches and initiatives introduced by school leaders.’
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