Development Administrator (Term time only plus 2 weeks during School holidays) 25 hours per week (Monday to Friday)

The School:

Merchant Taylors’ School is a large Independent Boys’ School, situated in 286 acres of parkland in Northwood, Middlesex.  The School was founded in 1561, is owned by the Merchant Taylors’ Educational Trust and moved to its present site in 1933. There are four distinct boys’ day schools on campus. The Nursery, the Pre-Prep & the Prep cater for 340 boys, while the Senior School has some 930 pupils. The School employs over 140 teachers and 160 Support staff across Merchant Taylors’ School.

Summary of role:

The Development & Alumni Relations Office leads the process of generating long-term and consistent voluntary income for Merchant Taylors’ School, and for running a comprehensive alumni and parental relations programme. The office uses Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge as its alumni and parental database, and this tool drives much of the activity of the office. This role is to provide administrative support to all aspects of the work of the Development and Alumni Relations Office. 

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Administration of the Raiser’s Edge Development and Alumni Relations Office Database, including the input of new data, updates to the data, and the manipulation of data to produce reports and mailings as required.

• Ensuring the integrity of data provided or discovered.

• Gift administration: recording new gifts on Raiser’s Edge, acknowledging and thanking donors.

• Gift Aid administration: recording declarations appropriately and making monthly Gift Aid claims to HMRC.

• Gift reconciliation with the school’s accounts department, including reconciling event accounts.

• Processing online event payments (as well as cancellations and refunds), online gifts, memberships of the OMT Society, and online OMT profile updates.

• Recording event responses made by email or post.

• Assisting with production of event materials and event reports for organisers.

• Dealing with correspondence arriving at the Development and Alumni Relations Office, forwarding requests for information and ensuring that all matters are dealt with in timely manner.

• Mailing and emailing documentation to the Development and Alumni Relations Committee.

• Maintaining a record of the Development and Alumni Relations Office budget, and ensuring that sufficient supplies of stationery, etc, are held in stock.

OTHER DUTIES:

• To carry out other duties as may reasonably be requested by the Director of Development and Alumni Relations, Head Master or Bursar, particularly supporting other departments at times of pressure.

Hours:

25 hours per week (9am – 3pm/Monday to Friday). Potential for start and finish times to be flexible. 

Term time only plus 2 weeks during School holidays.

Other Benefits:

• 15% employer contribution to a defined benefit pension scheme (Contributory) 
• Life cover and income protection.
• Access to a flexible benefits platform.
• (all of the above subject to eligibility criteria)
• Use of School leisure facilities.
• Lunch provided free of charge when the School Catering Department is open
• Free parking on site.