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Alumni Relations Officer

Alumni Relations Officer

Colfe's School

Greenwich

  • Expired
Salary:
Competitive
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Start date:
As soon as possible
Apply by:
12 November 2021

Job overview

Reporting to: Development Manager/Director of A,C&D

Contract:                        3 days per week, term time only plus 15 days in school holidays.
                                                       Occasional work will be needed during evenings and weekends.

Start Date: Asap

The Alumni Relations Officer role requires experience of customer relationship management and marketing, to implement the annual communications plan to the school alumni network.

The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator – both written and verbal – with the appropriate level of digital literacy to manage online networks as well as more traditional mailing channels. Ability to ‘think on feet’ and manage day-to-day administration of busy alumni office under the direction of the Development Manager, the successful applicant will be able to quickly immerse themselves in the culture of the school and become an advocate for the alumni community. 

Reporting to the Development Manager, the role will also include ad-hoc communications support for the wider Admissions, Communications and Development team.

Skills and attributes:

  • experience within a communications and customer relationship management function
  • digitally savvy with the ability to manage multiple communications channels and identify new opportunities to reach our diverse alumni community
  • expertise in relationship management, ability to relate well to the whole school community – prospective current and former parents, alumni, pupils, staff, governors and friends of the school
  • event management experience within a comparable field
  • outstanding interpersonal and communication skills

Alumni Relations:

  • administrative support to the Development Manager and wider Admissions, Communications & Development team when required
  • dealing with all incoming Old Colfeian correspondence and managing alumni database
  • managing induction for new Old Colfeians upon leaving school
  • proactively working to strengthen links between existing alumni and wider school community
  • conducting tours for visiting Old Colfeians and their families
  • managing alumni network events – digital and in-person
  • implement alumni communications plan including creation and management of newsletters, social media channels and maintenance of relevant pages on school website
  • working closely with Development Manager and Communications Manager on the production of development campaign documents and communications to alumni, newsletter, social media and school website etc.   

Communication:

  • identify opportunities to promote events and achievements of the school to alumni community and vice-versa 
  • work with Development Manager to promote the work of the Development Office within school community
  • to be a visible and approachable figure for current pupils and staff, and to listen to their perspective on school life.

Person Specification: please see Job Description

 Application Procedure

All applicants must submit 

  • an application form, accompanied by a letter of application, current CV
  • details of two referees, who will be contacted prior to interview, in accordance with the School’s Safer Recruitment procedures

The application should be marked private and confidential and submitted by email to recruitment@colfes.com or by post to

Mrs Anna Ross, Colfe’s School, Horn Park Lane, London SE12 8AW

The deadline for applications is Friday 12 November. Colfe’s reserves the right to appoint to this post before the closing date if necessary. 

Colfe’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure & Barring Service.


Attached documents

About Colfe's School

THE AIMS OF THE SCHOOL

At Colfe's we aim to:
• promote excellence in all areas and to develop each pupil’s abilities and character to the full;

• provide innovative academic teaching which adds value and fosters learning and scholarship of the highest quality together with a wide range of cultural, sporting and extra-curricular activities;

• nurture an awareness of spiritual and moral values amongst our pupils in accordance with the Christian principles of our Founder, Abraham Colfe;

• maintain a balanced community of children from varied backgrounds within the context of an academically selective school;

• promote a purposeful and disciplined atmosphere in which boys and girls are encouraged to achieve their full potential, staff can find vocational fulfilment in their careers and all can use their talents for the greater good of the community and society as a whole.

Colfe’s School

Colfe’s is one of London’s oldest schools.  It can be traced back to the 15th century but took its name from Abraham Colfe, Vicar of Lewisham, who re-founded the school in 1652.  In his will, he entrusted the care of the school to the Leathersellers’ City Livery Company, which governs the school to this day.

In 1977 the school became independent; after 25 years as a voluntary aided boys’ grammar school.  For over twenty years now, Colfe’s has been co-educational, with roughly equal numbers of boys and girls: over 1,250 pupils in all, from ages three to 18. The Leathersellers’ Scholarship programme enables us to select a number of scholars each year on fully-funded bursaries for direct entry to the Sixth Form. In so doing we draw on strong working relationships with a number of local comprehensive schools in two of London’s most deprived boroughs: 10% of pupils in a typical sixth form year group qualify for free school meals.

Colfe’s former site in Lewisham was destroyed in the Second World War.  In 1963 the school moved to its present location in South East London.  All parts of the school from Nursery to Sixth Form share the site.  The facilities are excellent: the  school has an abundance of green space on site as well as a performing arts centre, sports centre with full-size swimming pool, two additional extensive sports grounds and a dedicated forest school for younger pupils nearby.

Entrance is selective and academic standards are high, with more than 88.9% of A levels graded A*-B last year. More than 68% of pupils achieved GCSE grades 9-7, with 20% receiving the highest grade 9 - well above the national average. Pupils regularly gain places on the most competitive courses at university, including Oxford and Cambridge and Russell Group universities such as Bristol, Durham, Warwick and Leeds to study a variety of subjects from English, Economics and Maths to Medicine and Music. Sport, music and drama are strong and all staff are expected to engage with the thriving extra-curricular programme.

Colfe’s is proud of its long history but not burdened or defined by it.  It is very much a school of the present day.  The teachers are relaxed (without being casual) and professional (without being stuffy).  The culture is one in which pupils are encouraged to respect one another and to learn from each other.  Colfe’s doesn’t try to force pupils into a single mould – there is no recognisable ‘Colfe’s type of pupil’.  They are lively and willing to have a go.

Locally and nationally the school enjoys a strong and growing reputation for all-round quality and innovation.  

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