Events Manager

We are seeking an ambitious individual who can hit the ground running, so substantial experience within the events sector is essential. The School has excellent assets at its disposal, and the successful candidate will be able to quickly develop and present a compelling events proposal for approval by the Chief Financial and Operations Officer.

Birkenhead School, awarded the Sunday Times Independent Secondary School of the Year in the North-West for 2025, was founded in 1860. It is an HMC independent day school providing education for boys and girls drawn from the whole of the Wirral, Liverpool, Chester and North Wales. Situated in the leafy suburb of Oxton, the School enjoys excellent facilities. The main campus has a ‘village green’ atmosphere, with classrooms and laboratories looking out over the cricket square.

A key feature of the School is its strength of community, which runs through the student, staff and parental bodies. The School is embedded within the wider Wirral community, and has strong links with local businesses and charities. A dedicated, talented and collegiate staff body is required to achieve this excellence and sense of community. The School’s informal motto is Respect, Responsibility and Resilience, to which the School has recently added Inclusivity, Compassion, Integrity, Humility and Courage as defined School values. Birkenhead School recruits on attitude as much as the quality of an individual’s qualifications on paper, an approach that has played a considerable role in the winning of the Sunday Times award – in short, staff go above and beyond.

The Job

The School is financially strong and well-run, and has reset following the introduction of VAT on fees in January 2025. The School is ambitious in its plans to continue to play a leading role within education in the North-West, and nationally, and seeks to diversify its income streams to further invest in the School and its community.

This has led to the creation of this new role, an exciting opportunity for an Events Manager to serve the School through the increased commercial use of our assets and facilities. The role will be line managed by the Chief Financial & Operations Officer (CFOO).

The Events Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering a diverse range of School events that help support the School’s reputation and maximise opportunities for commercial income growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage facilities and commercial events.

• Oversee operational delivery and logistics

• Ensure stakeholder and client management

• Ensure financial and administrative management

• Ensure compliance with health and safety and safeguarding

The full list of responsibilities can be found on the Information for Candidates.

Skills and Experience

• Experience delivering large events in a busy, multi‑site environment.

• Strong organisational and project‑management skills.

• Excellent communication and client‑facing abilities.

• Ability to manage multiple events simultaneously and meet tight deadlines.

• Experience working with budgets and negotiating with suppliers.

• High-level attention to detail with strong problem‑solving skills.

• Competent with AV/technical equipment or willingness to learn.

This is a 40 hour per week, full-time, fixed term position (with the potential to become permanent) until August 2027. A degree of flexibility is required to allow for activities involving working outside the normal hours. You will be entitled to 40 days annual leave per year, including Bank Holidays and Christmas Shutdown.

Benefits

• Working as part of a committed team.

• Auto-enrolment to a Defined Contribution pension scheme.

• Free use of the fully equipped on-site gym.

• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme.

• Support for your continuous professional development.

• Lunch provided during term time.

• Electric Car charging points on site.

Application

A letter of application indicating skills and experience, together with a completed application form, including the names and addresses of at least two referees, should be sent for the attention of the Headmaster via: recruitment@birkenheadschool.co.uk

Candidates are welcome to contact the Chief Financial & Operations Officer, Mr Danny Byrne, on  recruitment@birkenheadschool.co.uk with any questions relating to the role.

To meet our safeguarding obligations, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check is undertaken as part of the recruitment process for all new staff. As Birkenhead School is an educational provider, it is permitted to ask whether an applicant has any convictions, cautions, reprimands or final warnings which would not be filtered in line with current guidance, as defined by The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). It is a criminal offence for an individual who is barred from working with children to apply for a role which is classed as regulated activity.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy and complete the recruitment process when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and submit your application form as soon as possible.