Development Officer
Harrow School
Harrow
- Expired
- Salary:
- £32-35k per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 7 June 2025
Job overview
Full time, all year round • 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
The environment: Harrow School is situated in Harrow on the Hill, northwest London, and is one of the best-known schools in the world. Around 835 boys study at Harrow and live in the School’s 12 boarding houses.
The Harrow Development Trust (HDT) is a registered charity, working with Old Harrovians, parents, grant-making trusts and friends of the School to raise funds for the development of the School's facilities and for scholarships and bursaries.
The role: The Development Officer will support the Chief Executive and Directorship to deliver a comprehensive fundraising programme and encourage lifelong engagement and support of the School. You will play a key role in the School’s fundraising and development activities and will be involved in all aspects of the HDT’s work. An important focus of the role is to build and manage a pool of lower to mid-level donors, research prospective donors and support the HDT’s special events and projects. For more information please review the job description attached as a separate document to the advertisement.
The skills: This is an unusual opportunity for a candidate who is an early career fundraiser or is keen to pursue a career as a fundraiser in the charitable sector. Your confident, engaging personality and enthusiasm for the benefits of a world-class education will enable you to connect meaningfully with potential donors. Your experience of delivering to deadlines in a busy office environment, meticulous attention to detail and data analysis skills will be very useful in this crucial aspect of the role. Your strong written and verbal communication skills, tactful, approachable manner and ability to positively influence others will enable you to build strong professional relationships at all levels of seniority within and outside of the School.
The benefits include:
- Free lunch.
- Free parking.
- Automatic enrolment in the School’s pension scheme.
- Use of the School’s sports facilities such as the swimming pool, gym, and running track.
- Subsidised membership of the tennis, golf, angling and social clubs.
How to apply: For a detailed job description and application form visit https://www.harrowschool.org.uk/contact/work-at-harrow/vacancies
For any questions email the HR department at recruitment@harrowschool.org.uk
Closing date: Sunday 8 June 2025.
Applications will be processed as they are received and interviews may take place before the closing date, so early application is recommended.
Equality, diversity and inclusion are values that are important to us at Harrow. We believe in diversity of thought and actively welcome everyone regardless of their background to bring their valuable and relevant skills to our community.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All successful applicants must be willing to undergo enhanced child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with any past employer and the Disclosure and Barring Service, and it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
No member of staff will be able to start until these checks are complete and this process takes, on average, a month. Please plan accordingly.
Attached documents
About Harrow School
Harrow School is one of the best-known schools in the world. It is situated on a 324-acre estate in Harrow on the Hill in north-west London, and employees particularly value the School’s beautiful green estate, the positive working environment, and good relationships with their colleagues.
Harrow is an independent boarding secondary school for boys aged 13-18, all of whom live in the School’s 12 boarding houses. It was established by royal charter in 1572 for the education of 30 poor boys in the parish of Harrow on the Hill. This original purpose of offering a life-changing education to boys from every background continues today; in 2023/23, 340 of our 834 pupils benefited from some form of fee assistance.
While Harrow’s rich academic education leads to top examination results and entry to the best universities in the world, our focus is on pastoral excellence with the wellbeing of our boys at its core. The School also offers a host of co-curricular opportunities, allowing each pupil to follow or discover his own particular interest, and boys regularly achieve sporting success at a national level. All this is underpinned by world-class facilities.
Knowing that we are part of a much wider community, our Shaftesbury Enterprise partnership programme is a key element of our curriculum that encourages all Harrovians – pupils and staff – to participate in projects to support young people to flourish in every area of their life, whatever their circumstances.
Harrow also has a family of schools that offer a similar outstanding education across Asia, the Middle East and the USA.
Head Master
Alastair Land
Values and vision
Harrow School believes that the success of students should be measured not purely by grades but by their influence on the wider world.
The School believes that all organisations need strong and clearly expressed values to create identity, focus, unity and drive, and answer the questions: what do we belong to, what’s important to us?; why do our collective efforts matter?; what holds us together?
Harrow’s four Values of courage, honour, humility and fellowship aim to help the School make decisions from day to day that mean members of its community behave and perform better. These Values link closely to Harrow School’s Christian foundation and the principles of ‘godliness and good learning’ established by its founder, John Lyon.
ISI report
‘Pupils are high achievers in all areas of their academic lives. Their success owes much to the strong and supportive boarding community to which they all belong, and which gives the encouragement to work hard and aim high, and the confidence to set themselves ambitious goals.’
‘Pupils invariably work hard and utilise their strong motivation and desire to succeed, and this is one of the main drivers in their success. The strong progress they make, and their all-round excellent achievement, is enabled by many innovative approaches and initiatives introduced by school leaders.’
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