Head of Commercial
Bedford School
Bedford
- New
- Salary:
- Up to £55,000 per annum, depending on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 8 September 2024
Job overview
Full Time, 37 hours per week
Up to £55,000 per annum, depending on experience
This is a new role created to develop and drive the non-fee income for Bedford School through letting of the school’s facilities, overseeing the development and delivery of holiday school contracts, and the development of holiday courses and programmes.
The holder of this key post will be responsible for ensuring effective leadership to proactively identify, develop and implement new revenue and profit streams for Bedford School, whilst managing and nurturing existing relationships with the school community and regular users of school facilities. Most importantly you will be responsible for the commercial lettings P&L, balancing our customers’ needs and those of the school.
You will be an enthusiastic ambassador and advocate for Bedford School and bring innovation and commerciality to our trading activities. You will oversee the continued development and evolution of our activities and facilities to generate income to meet Key Performance Indicators and ensure that all accommodation, facilities and equipment required for the letting of the premises during holiday and other periods is in a fit state and ready for use.
In return, we offer 25 days paid annual leave entitlement (plus public holidays), a private healthcare scheme, free lunch during term time, use of the school facilities, free parking, life insurance and a generous pension scheme.
Further details and how to apply can be found on our website: https://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/about-us/career-opportunities/
Closing date: Sunday 8 September 2024
Interview date: Organised with candidates upon application
Bedford School reserves the right to close the advert early, should a sufficient number of applications be received, therefore, early application is advised.
The Harpur Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references and other checks.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions on a self-declaration form in advance of attending an interview (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
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About Bedford School
Awarded five stars in Fortune’s World’s Leading Boarding Schools in 2023 and named ‘Independent Boys School of the Year 2021’, Bedford School is lauded for “its holistic school experience, tailored to the specific needs of the all-boys community, designed to ensure that students’ individual qualities are nurtured without inhibition and lived without awkwardness, so that they be good men.”
Bedford School class sizes are small and we operate vertical tutor groups, giving boys the chance to mentor and lead those younger, learn from those older and simply ‘be’ together without peer pressure. Bedford is a boarding school, first and foremost, with boarders and day boys alike benefitting from the strong boarding ethos. With 250 boys and around 40 staff living full-time on-site, the boarding community gives a heartbeat to the school in a way that nothing else can.
Our curriculum is broad, offering GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level and IB alongside a bespoke curriculum including Theory of Knowledge in Year 10 and an internal research project in Year 12. Every boy finds his individual path, with strong Sixth Form uptake across the sciences, humanities, creative arts and languages – there is no ‘typical’ Bedford student.
Academic results and destinations speak for themselves with 91% of our boys going onto their first or second choice university, including several to Oxbridge each year, and international universities. Many students are successful in gaining places at medical schools.
Facilities are first-class - two simulators (golf and flight), an observatory and planetarium are standout features. Our recently built Music School and Theatre house dynamic creative departments and excellent student performances.
Every boy makes a meaningful local contribution via our Community Partnership Programme, working in mutually beneficial partnerships with individuals from varied backgrounds, and we have run the Ivy House Leadership Award since its inception. We regularly top the schools' leader board in fundraising for Movember.
Sport is a forte: 96% of boys represent the school annually, and our major sports teams regularly make national finals, with many pupils playing at county or national level and at least one leaver almost every year going into professional sport. We work with Northampton Saints, Northants CCC and Woburn Golf Club. But we have a philosophy of ‘sport for all’ and we regularly field E and F teams.
We aim for our boys to be balanced, outward-looking, forward-thinking, kind and sociable young men who are comfortable in their own skins. We invite you to explore our school through the news stories we regularly publish on our website and on social media; these provide an insight into our boys, their stories and successes, and a strong sense of the enviable community that is Bedford School.
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