Alumni Relations Manager
The Queen's School
Cheshire West and Chester
- £27,000 - £27,370 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 23
- Apply by:
- 5 June 2023
Job overview
We’re Building Connections That Really Matter!
People are at the heart of what we do, be it educating our pupils, supporting the local community, nurturing parental relations, or ensuring our alumni are loved. And the role of Alumni Relations Manager is key to the success of all of this! So, if you’re dynamic, driven and people focussed with a flair for communicating and running events, then this could be the role for you.
Who we are:
We are an outstanding girls independent school set in the heart of the beautiful city of Chester. We are working hard to achieve bold ambitions, prepare pupils for the future, have a positive impact in our community, ensure as many girls as possible can access a Queen’s School education, and build lifelong connections with alumni. Queen’s has an excellent national reputation and a pioneering heritage that embodies excellence, independence, inspiration, and empowerment in the education of women. This is an exciting opportunity to work with us, and to embrace the future with challenge, imagination, and innovation.
The role itself and what you’ll do?
Up front or behind the scenes, you’ll have the chance to make a big difference. The post holder will take the lead on community engagement and fundraising across the Queen’s alumni. The next few years will be exciting as we seek to develop the way we work to evolve our relationships with Queen’s alumni, increasing engagement and giving, using innovative techniques to do so.
Reporting to the Director of External Relations, the Alumni Relations Manager will be responsible for the following:
• Putting on amazing events that bring together the alumni community.
• Provide support to careers to source university student speakers and industry mentors.
• Organise alumni talks/lunches for the Careers programme.
• Support the organisation of the School archive.
• Help create, implement, and deliver fundraising strategies and the management of campaigns.
• Oversee the annual selection of school reps in pupil’s leaving years.
• Advocating for the school’s fundraising campaigns.
• Manage the development of alumni relations.
• Keep accurate and up to date records and directories of all alumni members.
• Input to social media strategy around engagement. This will include maximising the impact of Queen’s and the school LinkedIn profile and reinvigorating the alumni section of the website by producing relevant and impactful communications and deliver engaging events for our stakeholder communities.
Basically, you'll be the heart of our alumni operations and activities and the soul that keeps our communities connected and moving forward.
Must haves:
• You’re energised by other people and thrive in a collaborative, team-centric environment.
• You enjoy a fast-paced environment, but always make time for meaningful connections.
• Enthusiasm and positivity as well as hardworking, driven, and flexible.
• Persuasive and able to influence a social situation using instinct, judgement, and tact.
• Great inter-personal skills with a proven track record of building trusted relationships with a wide variety of individuals of all ages and nationalities.
We'd also love you to bring:
• An adaptable approach when it comes to using CRM systems.
• A knowledge of fundraising and events management (but not essential).
• A willingness to roll your sleeves up as being part of a small size of the team this role will involve both strategic input and direct implementation.
• An ability to organise your own administrative needs, systematically set up online processes and have a strong instinct for social media.
What's in it for you?
Firstly, a great deal of personal satisfaction knowing the difference you’re making to the future of the school. We know that benefits mean so much more than the 'stuff' we can give you, and all work and no play just isn't our style! We're constantly evolving our approach to enable you to find a great work life balance.
If you go on to be successful in your application, some of the benefits include:
· Have a break, have a … holiday. Pro-rata annual leave entitlement of 25 days per year (dependent on actual hours worked). This entitlement increases to 30 days per year following 5 years’ service. That’s on top of all the recognised public holidays.
• Our pension scheme contribution 4% and you’ll be auto-enrolled within the first few months. You can opt out or increase the amount you pay in as you like.
• The option to buy up to 10 days leave, to suit your personal needs.
• Discounted school fees.
· Competitive salary.
· Guaranteed, contracted hours.
· Subsidised meals, and refreshments provided.
· Opportunities for hybrid working.
· Opportunities for flexible working.
· On-site parking.
Other duties
The post holder may also be required to perform any other duties as may be reasonably required as far is relevant to the post holder's grade and level of responsibility, for which the post holder has the necessary experience and/or training. Responsibilities may be subject to review from time to time and amended to reflect changing circumstances.
Next Steps:
If you think you've got some outstanding skills to offer us, and The Queen’s School feels like a place where you can belong, we'd love to learn more about you.
For an informal chat about the role with the Director of External Relations, Jane Archibald, please get in contact through the school office at secretary@thequeensschool.co.uk.
Don’t need a chat and simply want to apply? Please visit the school’s website to download an application form and send it to recruitment@thequeensschool.co.uk.
· Deadline for applications: Monday, 5 June 2023.
· Start Date: September 2023
· Commitment: 3 days per week, full time (subject to flexibility for the right person)
· Salary: Grade 28 £27,370.00 (FTE).
Thanks for your patience in the meantime and for showing an interest in joining The Queen’s School family.
Attached documents
About The Queen's School
Welcome to Queen’s
The Queen’s School is a leading selective GSA Independent day school providing education for around 450 girls between the ages of 4 and 18 years.
The school is highly successful, with a strong and consistent emphasis on the needs of individual pupils that focuses on enabling pupils to challenge, question and develop. The Queen’s school is well known for its excellent pastoral care, which is a hallmark of its community and underpins the academic focus that characterises the school. The vast majority of our pupils go on to attend their first choice university, including medical and Oxbridge places, and leave the school as confident, articulate and well balanced young women.
The school is situated close to the centre of the thriving, historic city of Chester and a few minutes cycle ride or drive from the unspoiled countryside of Cheshire, Wirral and North Wales. Manchester and Liverpool are within easy reach, and London is 2.5 hours away via train.
The ISI awarded the school the highest standard of “excellent” in all categories in its most recent inspection.
The History of the School
The Queen’s School was founded in 1878. The school's pupils achieved considerable distinction from the outset. Of the sixteen girls who joined The Queen's School on its opening day in 1878, two would go on to win places at Cambridge - the first of many in a long and honourable tradition.
The school would subsequently provide Chester with its first female solicitor, its first lady mayor, the first woman to receive the Freedom of the City, the first woman president of the Freemen and Guilds in over 800 years and the first female cathedral provost in Church of England history.
The School buildings were erected with the financial assistance of several leading Chester families, on land on the Chester City Walls provided by the Duke of Westminster. This site still exists today as the main part of the Senior School. Further buildings have been constructed or acquired so that the school now inhabits a mixture of Georgian and Victorian buildings as well as more modern ones. The Queen’s Lower School was originally based in two large Victorian houses on Liverpool Road, Chester. It still occupies this site but has expanded in recent years.
Although much has changed since The Queen’s School was founded, our values-driven approach to education has remained the same and the school’s motto of “Honour Wisdom” still rings true and resonantly today.
Working at Queen’s
The Queen’s School has an outstanding reputation for staff and pupil welfare and staff career progression is important. Continuous professional development opportunities are offered, as is specific support for Early Career Teachers as part if the ECF. The school is a member of the Girls’ Schools Association network of schools, enabling access to a wealth of support, information and training.
Teachers at The Queen’s School are ambitious for themselves and for the school, but mainly for their pupils, getting to know them as individuals to set challenging but achievable targets. Across all year groups, there is an expectation of excellent results. At the Senior School, this includes the preparation of students for entry to highly competitive courses, including Oxbridge.
The Queen’s School invests proactively in technology to support teaching and learning, and an extensive and well-populated Virtual Learning Environment is well used by all pupils and staff at both the Lower and Senior Schools. All pupils in the Senior School have individual iPads and all teachers (Lower and Senior Schools) are provided with individual iPads to enhance their practice.
All members of staff are expected to contribute to the school's extracurricular programme, which mainly operates at lunchtimes and after school, and to support the marketing and admissions departments when necessary.
The Queen's School participates in a pension scheme with Legal and General and the Government Childcare Voucher scheme, offers discounted school lunches, reimburses parking costs for staff and offers a pro rata 50% fee reduction for staff members who would like their daughter/s to attend the school.
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