Highgate School & London Academy of Excellence Tottenham

Highgate is a different kind of independent school, whose charitable ethos is an inextricable part of both staff and pupil DNA. Highgate is connected to, and a part of, a community, with partnerships with over 60 state schools across 7 London boroughs. Highgate is dedicated to helping children thrive both within and outside the School, including its commitment to transformative means-tested bursaries, its Chrysalis programme of partnership work, and its role as the founder and sponsor of the London Academy of Excellence Tottenham, an academically-selective 16 – 19 free school providing outstanding teaching and learning and university access to underserved pupils in one of the country’s most deprived wards.

Highgate’s Development Office is critical to ensuring this life-changing programming expands and advances, with donor support forming an integral part of the success of bursaries, partnerships, and LAET. Following the success of the past few years, Highgate now seeks a talented and inspiring Development Director to lead the Development Office into its next chapter.

The successful candidate will have, above all, a clear understanding of and passion for Highgate’s purpose and mission of social mobility and community outreach through education. They will bring significant fundraising experience and expertise and will have skills to develop various fundraising streams. The successful candidate does not need to have prior experience in the schools sector but will need great personal dynamism and the ability to win support for Highgate’s cause. They will have experience of developing and implementing a strategic fundraising plan and the ability to interact with a wide range of stakeholder groups with tact, diplomacy, and great personal warmth.

Saxton Bampfylde Ltd is acting as an employment agency advisor to Highgate School on this appointment.

Please apply via Highgate’s recruitment portal, www.highgateschool.org.uk/work-with-us/staff-vacancies

In addition to applying via the website above, candidates must complete Saxton Bampfylde’s GDPR Consent Form. This will be sent to you upon receipt of your application.

The closing date for applications is 9:00 on Tuesday, 3 May 2022.

Highgate is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to this post, including checks with past employers, overseas police check if necessary and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

 Please note that this role is ‘exempt’ from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore, you are required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings that are not ‘protected’ {i.e. filtered out} as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 {Exceptions} Order 1975 {as amended in 2013). Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide details of all unspent convictions and those that would not be filtered, prior to the date of the interview.