Head of Admissions
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive plus benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required from: June/July 2021
- Apply by:
- 24 May 2021
Job overview
If you offer first class organisational, interpersonal and administrative skills this key role offers an exciting opportunity to lead the admissions process of one of London’s top day schools.
As Head of Admissions, you will be responsible for the development and execution of pupil recruitment and acquisition activities for the Junior and Senior School. Leading a busy department and supported by two Admissions Officers, you will manage a professional and welcoming admissions process for prospective pupils, ensuring that all enquirers and applicants receive a positive impression of the School. This will include organising open events to give as full a flavour of Wimbledon High School life as possible.
You will also communicate regularly with parents throughout the admissions process, speak at open events, visit feeder schools to build relationships and oversee the management of entrance examinations and assist the Head with the process of making offers and managing waiting lists. As part of the strategic development of the admissions process at the School, you will also analyse data and market trends to help shape the School’s recruitment strategy.
To be considered for this role, you will need excellent interpersonal and communications skills with evidence of customer service experience and selling skills, demonstrating an ability to read and understand a customer base and market trends. Experience of the admissions process in an independent school is desirable but not essential.
About the School:
Wimbledon High School is a highly academic school for girls aged 4 to 18, located in the heart of Wimbledon, less than 20 minutes from central London.
As part of the Girls’ Day School Trust, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Generous pension schemes
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
For further details and to apply, please click the apply button.
Closing date: 9am Monday 24 May 2021.
Interviews: Friday 28 May 2021.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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