External Relations Manager
Sheffield High School for Girls
Sheffield
- New
- Salary:
- £40,992 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 11 August 2026
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced fundraiser who thrives on building relationships and influencing people from a wide range of backgrounds to join us at Sheffield Girls'.
As External Relations Manager, you will be responsible for developing and strengthening the School’s relationships with former pupils, current and former parents, commercial partners and the wider school community. The role includes delivering a programme of events, promoting our bursary fundraising campaign, managing communications and relationships with existing and prospective donors, leading our commercial partnerships programme and overseeing the School’s alumnae network.
As the School approaches its 150th anniversary in 2028, you will play a key role in delivering our 150th Bursary Campaign, with an ambitious target of raising an additional £1 million to support bursary provision.
You will have a sound understanding of fundraising principles and best practice, together with experience of developing fundraising income streams and engaging new donors. You will also have experience of event management, customer relationship management and financial planning and budgetary control. You will be target-focused, highly organised and able to balance competing priorities, manage a demanding workload and meet deadlines.
If you enjoy tackling new challenges, are an excellent communicator and are motivated by achieving ambitious fundraising goals, we would love you to join our busy and collaborative Marketing and Admissions team at Sheffield Girls’.
Benefits:
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
Competitive terms and conditions of employment, and competitive salaries and pay progression
Membership of the GDST flexible pension scheme
36-week school year (including INSET days) across 3 terms, with a 2-week half term in the Autumn
Access to extensive professional development opportunities and training grants for qualifications
Free life assurance benefit
Employee Assistance Programme via Health Assured, offering free 24-hour counselling, wellbeing support and advice services
A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
Free lunches for all staff during term time (equivalent to at least £900 per year)
In-school staff wellbeing activities such as yoga, fitness classes, wellbeing walks
Interest-free loans for training, computer purchase and travel season ticket loans
A Cycle to Work scheme
Good transport links and free parking
For further details and to apply, please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is 9am, Tuesday 11th August 2026.
Sheffield High School and the GDST are committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included. Sheffield High School and the GDST are committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including online searches and checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
About Sheffield High School for Girls
- Sheffield High School for Girls
- 10 Rutland Park, Sheffield
- South Yorkshire
- S10 2PE
- United Kingdom
Our aims
At Sheffield Girls' we aim to nurture a love of learning and curiosity in our girls that encourages them to explore, question and challenge.
We want our girls to be confident, to flourish and be ready to take their place, and make a difference, in an ever-changing world.
We want our girls to be proud! Proud of themselves, proud of each other, proud to be forged at Sheffield Girls'.
“Teaching her everything so she can be anything”
Our values
We have three school values: Positivity, Kindness and Courage.
We want our girls to be positive. Positive in the way they approach their learning, positive in the outlook on life, positive in their aspiration for the future.
We want our girls to be kind. Kind to others, kind to themselves, kind to the world they live in.
We want our girls to have courage. Courage to stand out from the crowd, courage to speak up for what is right, courage to push herself that little bit further.
Girls only by design
Schools like ours can offer a learning environment dedicated to girls' learning needs and preferences, an environment where girls can establish their own identities attitudes and self-worth free from gender stereotypes during those crucial formative years.
We firmly believe that girls' education has never been more important, because it has a purpose and a unique position in a world that can only benefit from the contribution these girls will make to a better future for us all.
An exceptional education from 4-18
Founded in 1878, Sheffield Girls’ is situated in Broomhill, a very pleasant area of the city between the University and the Botanical Gardens.
The school serves a wide geographical area attracting girls from the neighbouring towns of Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham as well as Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire.
The school is spread across several buildings within close proximity of each other, and we have specialist facilities to support learning across all ages.
At Sheffield Girls’, our pupils are immersed in a purposeful environment, free from disruptive behaviour, where it is cool to work hard and do your best, which means the girls are enthusiastic and motivated in their learning.
The learning is rigorous, but it is fun. Lessons are fast-paced with students engaged as active learners and they are delivered by inspirational teachers who bring a wealth of experience and are innovative in their approach. Learning takes place in a supportive environment where mistakes are encouraged. We aim to develop the girls’ resilience and confidence and instil a ‘can-do’ attitude.
There are currently 750 girls on roll which includes approximately 150 girls in the Junior School and a Sixth Form of around 150 students.
We have a commitment to innovation, sustainability, skills development, and equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). Our strategic actions over the last three years have seen us achieve Unicef Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award status; become the national hub for World Education Robotics (WER); introduce and embed a competency based curriculum across our all phases; appear in 18th position in the School Sports Magazine’s ‘Top 200 sporting schools’; achieve the highest judgements in our ISI Educational Quality Inspection in September 2021; be named the Sunday Times Top Independent Secondary School in the North of England 2023 and, most recently, achieve the title of Prep School of the Year at the Independent School of the Year Awards 2023.
Part of the GDST
Sheffield High School for Girls is one of 25 schools administered by the Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST).
The GDST is the leading network of independent girls’ schools in the UK, with nearly 20,000 pupils and over 3,700 staff in its 23 fee-paying schools and two academies. The GDST is also the UK’s largest educational charity with an annual turnover of more than £200m. The GDST is fully committed to its current and future students, parents and staff and any surplus is reinvested in its schools, for the benefit of its pupils.
For further information on the school or the GDST, please visit www.sheffieldhighschool.org.uk or www.gdst.net
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