Admissions Officer (Widening Access)
Highgate School
Highgate
- Expired
- Salary:
- Circa £30,000 depending on qualifications, skills and experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 8 September 2016
Job overview
The role: This role will be responsible for working within the School’s Admissions Department. It is a new post helping the School take forward its Charitable activities as well as objectives from the School’s Development Plan. It is inevitable that the role will develop over time and therefore the applicant needs to have a flexible, pro-active and can-do approach.
The role includes two main responsibilities:
a. Bursaries. Working with the School’s Outreach and Access Officer to help oversee the School’s bursary programme, including helping ensure awareness within the community and helping run the bursary application process.
b. Diversity. To understand whether there are any barriers to people applying to the School with a view to engaging different cultural groups of the community to encourage an application profile that reflects the wider community.
To apply: For further information and an application form, please visit our website: http://www.highgateschool.org.uk/about/vacancies
Closing date is midday on Friday 9 September 2016 but applications will be considered on receipt
HIGHGATE SCHOOL
Highgate School was established in 1565 by a Royal Charter of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the First. Sir Roger Cholmeley, our Founder, was granted Letters Patent to found ‘a grammar school…for good education and instruction’. Today Highgate is a flourishing coeducational independent school which includes the Senior School for pupils aged 11-18; the Junior School for pupils aged 7-11 and the Pre-Preparatory School for pupils aged 3-7. There are currently in the region of 1,550 pupils at Highgate and the School employs approximately 400 full-time or part-time teaching and support staff.
The School is situated in one of the most attractive and sought after areas of North London, only a short journey from Central London and adjacent to Hampstead Heath. Working at Highgate offers the opportunity to be part of a vibrant and welcoming community, committed to academic excellence and the highest standards of pastoral care for its pupils.
Highgate School is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to this post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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About Highgate School
Established in 1565, Highgate is now one of the UK’s leading co-educational independent schools, with around 1,700 pupils aged 3-18.
Academic excellence
Academic standards at Highgate remain high, as our most recent exam results demonstrate. In 2023 over 50% of all our GCSE entries were graded 9, and 78.9% were 9 or 8. Within our Sixth Form, in 2023, 46.5% of all our exam entries were awarded an A* at A level (or Pre-U equivalent) and 82.8% were A* or A. In 2023, 30 pupils matriculated at either Cambridge or Oxford colleges, whilst others took up places at prestigious Art, Architecture and Medical schools. Every year, the vast majority of our leavers enter Russell Group universities or other elite Higher Education establishments, including in the US and Canada.
Beyond the classroom
Alongside their studies, Highgate pupils are offered a wide range of co-curricular activities which enhance both their childhood experience and their future aspirations. We are also exceptionally fortunate when it comes to sport with extensive facilities, excellent staff and a wide range of activities available.
At Highgate, we encourage social responsibility through our charity work, both locally and further afield. For example, we are the principal education sponsor for the London Academy of Excellence Tottenham and support Great Lakes High School in Uganda.
Location
Our School is situated in one of the most attractive and popular areas of North London, a short distance from central London and adjacent to Hampstead Heath. We endeavour to be a sustainable school and are well served by good public transport links.
Management
Our Head, Mr Adam Pettitt, leads our Senior School and is also responsible for the overall direction of our Pre-Preparatory and Junior Schools.
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