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Director of Development The King's School, CanterburyThe job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.Salary Competitive Basis Full Time Job descriptionThe Development Office at The King's School Canterbury plays a vital role in supporting the School's long-term vision and sustainability. Working at the intersection of fundraising, alumni relations, and community engagement, it is responsible for building meaningful relationships with past pupils (OKS), parents, and supporters, and is entering a pivotal and ambitious phase of growth.Guided by a bold five-year Philanthropy and Engagement Strategy, the Development Office places philanthropy and community engagement at the centre of its long-term vision to transform lives through education.This is a moment of genuine momentum. Building on strong recent progress including the revitalisation of major gifts activity, the successful launch of a regular giving programme, and the establishment of a unified Kings Association the School has also recently completed Phase I of The Charter Awards, its ambitious fundraising campaign. Launched in 2023 to grow the Schools endowment to £50 million by the 500th anniversary of its 1541 Charter, the campaign has already exceeded expectations, raising over £3 million in just three years. Charter Awards bursaries are already transforming lives, enabling talented young people who would otherwise never have the opportunity to access a Kings education.The Kings School now seeks an outstanding Director of Development to lead the next phase of this journey. The focus will be on scaling impact: strengthening the major gifts pipeline, expanding regular and legacy giving, and delivering high-impact fundraising aligned with the Schools strategic priorities.This is a highly relational and outward-facing role, requiring close partnership with senior leadership, governors, and an international network of supporters to inspire philanthropic investment and deepen engagement across the global Kings community. The successful candidate will be supported by a Head of Development, a Development Officer, an Engagement Manager, and part-time Events and Admin Officers.This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the worlds great schools at a defining moment in its development programme, where ambition, collaboration and a commitment to excellence underpin everything we do.For further information and to apply online, please visit: Current Job Vacancies The King's School, CanterburyClosing date for receipt of applications: 9.00am on 8 June 2026. Provisional interview dates first interviews will take place on 11 and 12 June with second round on 17 June.The Kings School is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process which is in line with the statutory Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates.All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.TPBN1_UKTJ

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a School Business Development Executive / Account Manager to join a social enterprise that connects employers with schools to create inclusive work-based learning opportunities for students, particularly those with special educational needs or from disadvantaged backgrounds. As a School Business Development Executive / Account Manager, you will be developing relationships with schools and careers hubs to promote a well-established careers engagement platform. This role is full-time remote based offering a salary of £30k FTE plus generous commission and benefits. The candidate must possess experience in both account management and new business development. You will be responsible for: • Proactively reaching out to schools to introduce and promote an innovative platform supporting student career development, • Building and managing relationships with Careers Leaders, Officers, and occasionally Head Teachers, • Collaborating with regional Careers Hubs and education networks to broaden reach, • Coordinating meetings via phone, Teams, or face-to-face to support engagement and growth, • Representing the organisation at relevant regional and national events, • Providing accurate internal updates and contributing to reporting processes, • Ensuring internal policies, such as safeguarding and health & safety, are adhered to What we are looking for: • Previously worked as a Account Manager, Sales manager, Business Development Manager, Partnership Manager, School Engagement Manager, Education Partnership Manager, Educational Sales Executive, Education Account Manager, Education Outreach Coordinator, School Relationship Manager, Educational Partnerships Executive, School Liaison Manager, Student Career Development Officer, School Engagement Executive, Business Development Executive, Career Engagement Officer, Business Development Specialist, Business development Consultant, sales consultant, Business Development Advisor, Business Development Adviser, Business Development Officer or in a similar role, • Must have 3 years’ experience in direct sales (excluding retail or general customer service), • Have 2 years’ experience in selling or sales to schools., • Strong track record of working within the education supply chain or selling into schools, • Full UK driving licence and right to work in the UK What’s on offer: • Competitive salary, • Term-time only role, • Flexible working pattern, • Generous commission structure, • 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata, within school breaks), • Travel expenses covered This is a brilliant opportunity to join a values-led organisation and play a meaningful role in shaping young futures. Important Information: We endeavour to process your personal data in a fair and transparent manner. In applying for this role, Additional Resources will be acting in your best interest and may contact you in relation to the role, either by email, phone or text message. For more information see our Privacy Policy on our website. It is important you are aware of your individual rights and the provisions the company has put in place to protect your data. If you would like further information on the policy or GDPR please contact us. Additional Resources Ltd is an Employment Business and an Employment Agency as defined within The Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

Location: Remote Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 At Arbor, we’re on a mission to transform the way schools work for the better. We believe in a future of work in schools where being challenged doesn’t mean being burnt out and overworked. Where data guides progress without overwhelming staff. And where everyone working in a school is reminded why they got into education every day. Our MIS and school management tools are already making a difference in over 7,000 schools and trusts. Giving time and power back to staff, turning data into clear, actionable insights, and supporting happier working days. At the heart of our brand is a recognition that the challenges schools face today aren’t just about efficiency, outputs and productivity - but about creating happier working lives for the people who drive education everyday: the staff. We want to make schools more joyful places to work, as well as learn. We are looking for an experienced and dynamic Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Engineering team and help us improve the resilience and performance of the Arbor platform, enabling the business to rapidly scale. The remit and focus of the role is to continuously fix and improve our architecture, infrastructure, and ways of working. This requires an obsessive, metrics-driven approach, a curiosity about system behaviour, and close collaboration with the solution architect and engineering teams. It’s a broad and exciting role, so we’re looking for someone up for a challenge - if you’re a collaborative and curious Engineer, this is the role for you. Core responsibilities • Work with Head of Platform and Head of SRE to identify improvements within the platform infrastructure and implement plans to address, • Work with the Platform teams to improve the maturity of all components within the system, including ensuring High Availability, and adequate testing and DR plans, • Contribute to improving our CI/CD pipelines and providing patterns of deployment, • Assist in incident response and resolution, and subsequent post-mortems and retrospectives, • Participate in tech-talks and team based learning to ensure knowledge is spread, • Document obsessively, relying on Playbooks/Runbooks and systems documentation to aid knowledge transfer, • Extensive experience of DevOps Engineering and operating a large scale platform, • Extensive experience of distributed cloud systems, and specifically Amazon Web Services, • Extensive experience of Infrastructure as Code tooling, such as Terraform, Ansible, Cloudformation etc, • Understanding of relational database technologies and their cloud versions (e.g. AWS Aurora), • Experience with messaging and distributed asynchronous workloads, • Experience with nginx or similar technologies, • Experience with DataDog, Prometheus or similar tools, • A positive and proactive attitude to problem solving, • A team player, willing to muck in and help others when needed, driven personality who asks questions and actively participates in discussions, • Good written and spoken English so you can present your ideas Bonus skills • Past experience with enterprise solutions running at scale, • Familiarity with kanban and agile development processes, • Experience with Docker and containerisation, • Familiarity with software best practices such as Refactoring, Clean Code, Domain-Driven Design, Test-Driven Development, etc. The chance to work alongside a team of hard-working, passionate people in a role where you’ll see the impact of your work everyday. We also offer: • A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more!, • 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas, • Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary, • Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks, • Private Dental Insurance with Bupa, • Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows, • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay, • 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life!, • Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching), • All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you, • Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success, • Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc), • Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year, • Dog friendly offices!, • Phone screen, • 1st stage, • 2nd stage We are committed to a fair and comfortable recruitment process, so if you require any reasonable adjustments during your application or interview process, please reach out to a member of the team at _. Our commitment is also backed by our partnership with Neurodiversity Consultancy, Lexxic who provide us with training, support and advice. Our goal is for Arbor to be a workplace which represents, celebrates and supports people from all backgrounds, and which gives them the tools they need to thrive - whatever their ambitions may be so we support and promote diversity and equality, and actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Know someone else who would be good for this role? You can refer a friend, family member or colleague, if they are offered a role with Arbor, we will say thank you with a voucher valued up to £200! Simply email: _ Please note: We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.