Development Operations Manager
RGS Guildford
Guildford, Surrey
- £51,000 per year
- New
- Salary:
- FTE
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Summer 2026
- Apply by:
- 31 May 2026
Job overview
As Development Operations Manager, you will provide the strategic and operational backbone for our fundraising and engagement activity.
This opportunity comes at an exciting time in the School’s long and prestigious history. In December 2025 we announced our move to co-education, which is set to open up significant new opportunities for developing our community further and advance our fundraising ambitions.
The Development and Operations Manager will oversee the systems, data, processes and insight that enable the team to work effectively.
Key responsibilities of this role will be:
Prospect identification, research and cultivation
Donor management and stewardship
Data management, analysis and reporting
Financial processing and reporting
In return you will receive:
£40,880 (actual salary for 0.8 FTE)
Private medical cover
Complimentary lunch during term time
Company pension scheme with an individual contribution of 5% and a School contribution of 10%.
Charitable payroll giving scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
The role offers the chance to have a significant and meaningful impact on our ‘Road to 2035 Campaign’ which is our commitment to expand students' access to educational opportunities irrespective of financial means.
For a detailed job description and an application form, please visit our careers site.
About RGS Guildford
Located in the historic town of Guildford, the Royal Grammar School, dating back to 1509, is a leading independent day school for boys aged 11 – 18. Consistently regarded as one of the top three boys’ schools in the country, the RGS combines academic excellence with a passionate commitment to pastoral care and co-curricular opportunity in a friendly, supportive community of approximately 950 students and 120 teaching staff.
The original Tudor building, constructed between 1557 and 1586, is still used by the students; in addition, development of the site continues to provide facilities conducive to teaching and learning in the 21st century and to performance in all areas at the highest level. The School is committed to nurturing its staff and a structured, bespoke approach to professional development means that the whole community is united in a desire to improve, progress and be enriched.
Headmaster
Dr JM Cox
Values and vision
The RGS believes passionately in preparing our students for the challenges of a rapidly-changing, global future, as well as providing them with excellent foundations so that they can have the most ambitious of aspirations at university and beyond. Our bespoke Learning Habits nurture and develop all those transferable skills which will set up our young men irrespective of their chosen path: thinking critically, being independent and creative, being resilient and self-motivated; collaborating and working together, and being equally confident as leader or as part of a team.
Our timeless School Values – inclusivity; scholarship; integrity; respect; tenacity; and service – which are embedded in the curricular and extra-curricular life of the School ensure RGS students emerge as humble, grounded and decent young men committed to making the very best of each and every opportunity and to making a difference to others.
ISI report
“Pupils show an acute sense of respect for each other and recognise the school’s important role, underpinned by its inclusive values, in creating an academically challenging, positive and welcoming community where they can develop and flourish as true individuals.”
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