Development Officer
The King's School, Chester
Cheshire West and Chester
- £16,684 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- asap
- Apply by:
- 24 January 2022
Job overview
We now require a Development Officer to join our team. An organised, enthusiastic and flexible
person whose skills will support our small but dynamic Development team.
The Development Office manages relations with the ongoing community of King’s current and former
pupils, parents, staff, Governors and friends, providing social opportunities, cultivating relationships
and fundraising.
Main purpose of the role
The Development Officer will work with the Head of Development in establishing a successful
Development Office, managing all aspects of alumni relations, database administration, event coordination and support fundraising efforts. The nature of the post requires a flexible attitude to work.
Personal Qualifications and Qualities
• Excellent administrative ability and be capable of managing multiple priorities
• Excellent inter-personal and telephone communication skills
• Demonstrable experience of event planning
• Proven experience of managing a database
• An ability to work well in a small team
• Developed writing skills
• A high degree of enthusiasm for the role
• Flexible with a pro-active approach to new ideas and opportunities
Complementary skills
• Experience of the Raiser’s Edge database system
• Preparing web content
• A working knowledge of WordPress and Photoshop is desirable
• An empathy with independent education
Responsibilities
Research
• Co-ordinate efforts to encourage all school leavers to become active members of the
School’s alumni community
• Co-ordinate efforts to improve and measure levels of alumni engagement
• Co-ordinate efforts to seek out and re-engage with lost alumni
• Improve the quality and levels of data held on all alumni with full consideration of the
school’s policies and current laws
• Support the Head of Development in identifying, researching and creating detailed profiles
and briefings on major donor prospects, charitable foundations and other organisations
• Ensure accurate and timely recording of the identification, cultivation and solicitation of
major donor prospects onto the Raiser’s Edge database
Communications
• Design and organise initiatives to support the Development Office’s goal to increase the
number of contacts held for members of the King’s community
• Regularly research and write news items relating to Alumni
• Assist with mailings to donors and other members of the King’s community
• Co-ordinate alumni e-communications
• Co-ordinate efforts to engage with alumni via all social media channels
Events
• Create and initiate ideas for Alumni events
• Co-ordinate the organisation, planning and execution of internal and external Alumni and
other fundraising events
Fundraising Support
• Support the Head of Development with the cultivation and stewardship of relationships.
This includes being a first point of contact including face-to-face, telephone, written and
electronic communication.
Administration
• Handle all other administrative duties of the Development Office as required
• May be occasionally required to travel to support events
• On occasions, will be required to work evenings and weekends to support events
This job description does not define in detail all responsibilities and the responsibilities and activities
in the job description may be varied to meet the changing demands of the school at the direction of
the Development Manager.
The role is deemed to be in regulated activity as there is an opportunity for contact with children on a
day to day basis, but the contact would be minimal.
IMPORTANT - The King’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are required to undertake screening relevant to the post, including checks with past employers and the Enhanced DBS check. In line with our commitments to safeguarding, the King’s School uses preferred agencies and is unable to work with any agencies where Terms of Business have not been agreed by both parties prior to an engagement.
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About The King's School, Chester
The King’s School is an academically selective, co-educational independent school originally founded in 1541 for the ‘poor and friendless’ children of Chester. Almost 500 years later, King’s is a thriving, dynamic and forward-thinking school of more than 1100 pupils that is considered to be one of the leading day schools in the country.
At King’s we aim to make the very most of every individual student in the school, both academically as a selective school with a great tradition of scholarship, but also in terms of their personal development with regard to confidence, resilience, flexibility and well-being.
This is achieved by a broad and engaging curriculum, an extensive co-curricular programme, excellent pastoral care and exceptionally committed and professional staff. We strive for unpretentious excellence in all that we do and want our pupils to remember their time at school with a smile on their face, whilst successfully going on to make their marks on the world in their own distinct ways.
Our Values
In striving to achieve their own very best whilst caring about and working effectively with each other, all members of the King’s community strive to:
Aspire
We want all our students to aspire to be the very best versions of themselves. This relates to both their academic achievement, where we want them to attain their ‘sustainable best’, and just as importantly to their personal development as unique individuals.
Respect
We want our students to have respect for themselves and all others in the school community. We believe that young people should be comfortable in their own skin, whilst being respectful of others, especially with regard to diversity.
Collaborate
We want our students to collaborate effectively so that they learn to be great team members and achieve more than they would on their own. We also want them to contribute positively as part of the broader community with a higher sense of service.
The King’s School enjoys a spacious and exceptionally well-resourced site on the outskirts of Chester, having moved there from a city centre location next to the cathedral in 1960.
The site contains all sections of the school catering for pupils aged 4 to 18. Our state-of-the-art infant school, Willow Lodge (ages 3-7), was built eight years ago and the adjacent Junior School (ages 7-11) has been renovated and extended over recent years to provide specialist teaching and outstanding outdoor facilities.
The Senior School (ages 11-18) is also benefitting from an ambitious current masterplan, with the recent addition of a new £4.5 million Sports Centre, The Rohan Ingley Pastoral Centre, a comprehensive classroom renovation programme and most recently the redevelopment and expansion of the Sixth Form Centre. The school enjoys extensive sports and playing fields to the rear of the main building.
There are currently 789 pupils in the Senior School (224 in the Sixth Form), 244 pupils in the Junior School and 119 in the Infants, supported by almost 250 staff (teaching and support).
King’s is regularly named as the top performing school in Cheshire with regard to our public examination results and has been the top performing co-educational school in the north-west at A level for the last three years. Last year 93% of A level grades were at A*-B with a three year average of 90% A*-B.
The extensive co-curricular programme offers over 100 clubs and activities on a weekly basis. The major sports are football, hockey, cricket and rowing for boys and netball, hockey and rowing for girls. Drama, music and the CCF are also particularly strong. The school has its own boathouse on the River Dee in Chester and has a proud and long-standing record as one of the country’s foremost rowing schools.
King’s also puts a great deal of emphasis on its pastoral provision in line with its core strategic aim of ‘every child being known, valued and cared for’. This was recently boosted by the reversion to a house system in the Senior School which ensures continuity of support for pupils throughout their adolescent years in small tutor groups of 12-14 pupils.
The school returns to the cathedral for a service at the end of every term and very much sees itself as an integral part of the Chester and broader community. The school is a member of Chester Schools Together which is a partnership project with four local state schools. It is hoped and anticipated that this partnership, as well as many other links with Chester institutions, will flourish in the years ahead.
Chester itself is a delightful and historic city in a beautiful part of the country that is very well-positioned in terms of access to Liverpool, Manchester and North Wales, with London only two hours away by train. Barely a mile from the Welsh border, just over a third of pupils and many staff commute daily from Wales. There is an impressive range of highly attractive places to live within daily reach of the King’s School, with excellent local schools and a great diversity of employment opportunities for partners.
Further information about the school can be found on our website: www.kingschester.co.uk
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