WESTMINSTER SCHOOL
LITTLE DEAN'S YARD
LONDON SW1P 3PF
Director of Development
After 8 very successful years as the Director of Development, Mrs Angie Garvich is leaving Westminster School. The School now seeks to appoint a highly skilled development professional to lead and deliver the School’s fundraising strategy and to manage its well-established development office.
Further information
Further information about the post including a Job Description is attached. Further information about the School may be found on its website: www.westminster.org.uk/
Applications
Applications should be made using the safer recruiting application form enclosed in this bundle. This should be completed carefully and in full. A personalised CV may be included in addition to the fully completed application form but may not be submitted in lieu of it. Failure to follow the safer recruiting process will entail an application being rejected.
Applications should be sent with a hand written covering letter to:
The Personnel Bursar
Westminster School
Little Dean’s Yard
London SW1P 3PF
Applications will be acknowledged by email from: . If no acknowledgement is received within 2 working days, an email should sent to the School at the above or a call made to the HR Assistant on: 020 7963 1176.
Interviews
Those who are to be called for interview will be informed by email on 10 February 2017.
Interviews will be conducted at Westminster School by a panel of the Governing Body together with the Head Master and Bursar on Friday 24 February 2017. It will not be possible for candidates to request to be interviewed on a different day. Further details of the interviews will be provided to short listed candidates on 10 February.
Summary of key dates
· Closing date for applications 3 February 2017
· Short listing 10 February 2017
· Interviews 24 February 2017
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL
LITTLE DEAN'S YARD
LONDON SW1P 3PF
Director of Development
Information for candidates
Westminster School
Westminster School is a boarding and day School with origins tracing back to 1179 when the Benedictine monks of Westminster Abbey were required by Pope Alexander III to provide a small charity school. The School survived the dissolution of the monasteries due to the intervention of Henry VIII and to the Royal patronage conferred by his daughter Elizabeth I when she granted the College its Royal Charter in 1560. Separation from Westminster Abbey occurred in 1868 but an extremely close relationship is maintained and the School is privileged to worship there each week. The Queen’s Scholars and three senior members of staff are members of the Collegiate Body of St Peter at Westminster (the Abbey). The School has throughout its history provided education for boys and to this day it remains predominantly a boys' School. However girls were first admitted to the School in 1973 and today about 60 girls join the Sixth Form at 16+ for A-levels. Although proud of its deserved national and international reputation for academic excellence, Westminster pupils enjoy a very broad range of extra-curricular activities in music, drama, sport and also community engagement. The Great School presently numbers about 740 of which half are in the three years from 13+ Entry through to GCSE and half in the Sixth Form and Remove studying for A-levels.
Westminster School comprises the Great School and the Under School, the latter being a Boys' Preparatory School which was established in 1943 and from which most of its 285 pupils enter the Great School through the Challenge or Common Entrance examinations.
The School is proud of the large number of eminent former pupils who have made major contributions to this nation and to the wider world in philosophy, literature, the arts and science, politics and statesmanship, and philanthropy.
Westminster is also proud to be supported by a very engaged parent body, by former parents (Friends of Westminster) and an alumni organisation that retains close links with the School. Over the last 10 years the School has run a very successful capital campaign, three bursary gala dinners and an annual bursary fund campaign that has raised a total of over £30million. The School now seeks to increase its endowment so as to support the Governing Body’s vision to be able to award even more bursary places that will need to be funded when the newly established Westminster Enrichment Programme bears fruit.
For further information about the School visit: www.westminster.org.uk
Development at Westminster
The Westminster School Development Office covers two main activities: fundraising and alumni relations. The two main goals are to cement relationships between the School and its past pupils by providing their alumni with relevant information about the School and to enable Westminster to gain private philanthropic support in order to maintain Westminster’s position as a leading school.
Alumni Relations
The School’s alumni relations programme is well established and extensive. Lifetime membership of Westminster's alumni association, the Elizabethan Club, is guaranteed by a subscription fee that is levied against the first term's bill of each new pupil. Membership entitles all alumni (‘Old Westminsters’ or ‘OWW’) to a range of benefits and services including work experience and careers advice, invitations to interest specific events and receipt of magazine and newsletters.
Founded as a registered charity in 1937 by Lord Greene, Master of the Rolls, the Westminster School Society was created to receive and administer gifts, investments and property bequeathed by OWW. The Society is administered by a council of OWW and provides financial assistance to Westminster School mainly for the benefit of current pupils. The Society gives in excess of £100,000 to support bursary places at the School each year.
Friends of Westminster School
The Friends of Westminster School (‘Friends’) is a group of former parents, staff and others with links to the Westminster community who are able to enjoy a busy schedule of events throughout the year. The Friends currently number over 2000.
Recent Westminster Campaigns
A major capital campaign ended in 2014 with the overall target of £25million having been achieved. This helped to finance the acquisition of the Sports Centre used by both Schools, the new Purcell’s boarding house and Chapel for the Great School, a new classroom block and dining room for the Under School, and the repaving of Little Dean’s Yard. It also added to the funding available for bursaries.
The Fund for Westminster
In 2008 the School launched The Fund for Westminster - an annual appeal to all members of the Westminster community, particularly current parents and alumni, for financial support for the School. This has included a telephone and written appeal to each constituent donor body. In excess of £500,000 is raised annually this way, mainly for bursaries.
Gala Dinners
Finally, the School has held 3 gala dinners over the last 10 years at which it has raised £2.5million for bursaries.
Major legacies
The School was the very fortunate beneficiary of a share of the estate of A.A. Milne (OW). Following negotiations between the four beneficiaries and the Disney Corporation, each received c£40million. Each year the School also receives a modest income from royalties. The funds are carefully invested to generate income to provide bursaries.
The Role
Job Title: Director of Development
Location: Central London
Reports to: Head Master
Direct reports: Head of Alumni Relations
3 Development Officers
1 Finance officer (part time)
Key relationships: Development Committee of Governors
Master of the Under School
Bursar
Both Schools’ Senior Management teams
Duties and Responsibilities:
To manage the School’s fundraising programmes
Ø Implement the School’s fundraising strategy which includes an Annual Fund (The Fund for Westminster) that is targeted almost exclusively towards bursaries, the A.A. Milne Legacy Programme that supports the donor’s personal wishes for the School, and any capital campaign that may be needed in future
Ø Undertake direct fundraising either individually or in conjunction with the Head Master, the Master of the Under School or Development Committee
Ø Ensure systems are in place and maintained for gift administration, gift acknowledgement and stewardship of donors
Ø Be well informed on developments in fundraising regulation, practice and related matters
Ø Raise the profile of fundraising initiatives at the School internally and externally
Ø Organise business and act as Secretary for the Development Committee
Ø Recruit and organise fundraising volunteers of alumni, parents and Friends
Ø Be knowledgeable about all types of tax-efficient giving in the UK and overseas and manage tax reclamation
Ø Provide information for reports to the Governors and report in person to the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Governing Body
To manage an effective and efficient Development Office
Ø Oversee all events and publications for alumni
Ø Oversee a programme of stewardship for the School’s various constituencies
Ø Oversee design, content and implementation of the alumni website
Ø Ensure the development database (currently Raiser’s Edge) is kept accurately up to date with details of alumni, donors and other supporters
Ø Promote goodwill between the Development Office and alumni associations (the Elizabethan Club, the Westminster School Society, OWW House Societies, OWW Sports Societies)
Ø Advise on staff resources to meet the tasks in the Development Office
Ø Work closely with all staff at both Schools to promote the work of the Development programme to potential supporters
Ø Keep staff of both Schools informed of progress of the programme
Ø Liaise with the Bursar and Finance Bursar on day-to-day financial matters, manage the allotted budget and plan future budgets
Ø Liaise with the Bursar on all logistical matters relating to events
To promote the interests of the School
Ø Promote the interests of the School to donor constituencies, including alumni, parents, former parents and friends of the School, and former staff,
Ø Work closely with alumni, parents and friends of Westminster School to maintain harmonious relations with them and the School
Ø Review, with the Head Master and Director of Communications, the School’s communications, publications and website to determine the most effective communications strategy for enhancing the development message to potential donors
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Ø Experience of fundraising at a high level, either as a Director of as a Deputy Director, at a school, college, university or otherwise in the charity sector
Ø Experience of major gift fundraising from individuals
Ø Experience of servicing committees comprising senior volunteers
Ø Comprehensive knowledge of British charity law and tax law as it applies to charitable giving and inheritance law
Ø Experience of using and maintaining relational databases (such as Raiser’s Edge, Donor Strategy, AppealMaster, WebAlumnus, SwingDigital or InTouch)
Ø Experience of managing and motivating staff
Desirable
Ø Full or Associate membership of the Institute of Fundraising
Ø Membership of the Institute of Development Professionals in Education
Ø Experience of the use of the telephone for fundraising and information-gathering
Ø Experience of event management
Ø Experience of fundraising overseas, with special emphasis on the USA
Ø Knowledge of grant-making Trusts and corporate giving
Skills/Abilities
Ø Excellent diplomatic skills and an ability to present effectively in public to a variety of audiences
Ø Excellent budgetary control and office management skills
Ø Excellent drafting and writing ability
Ø Exceptional organisational skills with a keen eye for detail
Attitudes
Ø Empathy with the principles, ethos, aims and aspirations of independent schools
Ø Appreciation of the historical context around which the School has developed
Ø A self-starter with excellent judgement
4. Terms
An attractive salary package, 30 days annual leave plus public holidays and a contributory defined contribution (DC) pension scheme.
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL
17 Dean's Yard, London, SW1P 3PF
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL APPLICATION FORM
POSITION APPLIED FOR: DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
· Surname
· First names (underlining the name by which you like to be known):
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· Referees
Please provide at least two referees (with address, telephone number and e-mail address). One referee must be your current or most recent employer. Where you are not currently working with children but have done so in the past, one referee must be from the employer by whom you were most recently employed in work with children. Please note, references will not be accepted from relatives or from referees writing solely in the capacity of friends.
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Declaration
I am aware that the post for which I am applying is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore that all convictions, cautions and bind-overs, including those regarded as ‘spent’ must be declared. I have not been disqualified from working with children, am not named on DfES List 99 or the Protection of Children Act List, am not subject to any sanctions imposed by a regulatory body and
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