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The role Oxford High School is looking for a strategic and dynamic Head of Admissions to lead our busy admissions team. This is an exciting opportunity to shape our admissions strategy, enhancing both the school’s visibility and applicant experience from initial enquiry through to enrolment. In this pivotal role, you will provide both operational leadership and strategic oversight of the admissions function, ensuring a seamless and customer-focused journey for prospective families. You will manage the Admissions team, fostering a high-performing, customer-focused culture through clear direction, coaching and professional development, while maintaining the highest standards of service and delivery. You will oversee the full admissions cycle, ensuring every stage reflects the values and ethos of the school by building strong relationships with prospective families, feeder schools and key stakeholders to enhance the school’s reputation and appeal. You will take ownership of our admissions policy and procedures, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and alignment with school values. Working closely with colleagues from across the school, you will develop and deliver strategies to increase enquiries, applications and conversion rates, identifying and pursuing new opportunities for student recruitment at local, national and international levels. You will also lead the planning and delivery of recruitment and admissions events, including open days, taster sessions and assessment days. About you We are looking for a candidate with proven leadership experience in admissions, marketing, business development or a similar customer-facing role, who can bring strong strategic thinking and a track record of delivering growth. You will have excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build rapport and trust with a wide range of audiences, along with experience in developing and refining high-quality communications across multiple channels. You will be confident using CRM and admissions systems such as SIMS, along with Microsoft Office and Google Suite, and will demonstrate the ability to lead and motivate teams, manage competing priorities and drive continuous improvement. About Oxford High School Since its foundation over 150 years ago in the heart of Oxford’s historic city centre, Oxford High School GDST has been innovative and pioneering in its approach to girls’ education. Today, Oxford High School is a happy and vibrant place to work. As well as our commitment to girls’ education, we are committed to investing in our staff’s personal development through training and learning initiatives and via the Girls’ Day School Trust network. As part of the Girls’ Day School Trust, the leading and largest group of independent girls’ schools in the UK, we offer a variety of benefits, which include: • Competitive salaries and pay progression, • Access to extensive professional development opportunities, • Training grants for qualifications, • Generous pension schemes, • Free life assurance benefit, • Free school lunches, • A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools, • Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans, • A Cycle to Work scheme Closing Date: 09:00am on Friday 8th May 2026. The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening and online checks will apply to this post.

Starting salary to £24,500. Increasing to £26,000. Plus Bonus up to £200 per month. Are you looking for a break into a more office environment type role? A role that rewards good / great performance with monthly bonuses? Perhaps you have a retail or hospitality background but have been thinking about making the move and are just looking for that first opportunity? An opportunity with training and development where you will learn a first-class customer service approach via the phone, email, or even social media? A role where you will benefit from the camaraderie of a large team and support of new friends? We are keen to talk with people who bring a customer-focused approach – previous office or contact centre experience is not essential however you will be comfortable and confident communicating with people via the phone and email. Note; this is an office based role, based in our Head Office, Abingdon, Oxon. At the moment, our teams work slight shift patterns over a 5 day, 37.5 hour week to cover 8am to 8pm and a weekend on a rota basis (circa 1 every 5 weeks). If you're looking for part time, school hours, afternoon / evenings, or weekends then we are open to discussing to see if / how we can accommodate. Apply now to have a chat. Gigaclear is a growing Fibre Broadband (FTTP / FTTH) company, we are developing our fibre-to-the-premises broadband infrastructure to some of the most difficult to reach areas of the UK, empowering those communities with broadband to rival any city. Staff rewards, benefits, and opportunities Generous employer pension; up to 8% matched contribution Income protection & life assurance 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), holiday purchase scheme, Yay Days and your Birthday off! Health cash plan, 24/7 remote GP access and Employee Assistance Programme including counselling & legal advice Unlimited access to our online Learning Management System Long service benefits and monthly employee recognition Enhanced maternity and paternity provisions Flexible working environment Health & Wellbeing initiatives and company funded social events Our approach is to work guided by our mission, vision and values. Our Mission - Empowering communities with brilliant broadband Our Vision - Connected Communities Our Values - Own it, Find the Right Way, Work Together, Win Together

PART TIME EVENING AND WEEKEND WORKING HOURS - £24,500, plus bonus, pro-rata As a guide, around 4.00pm to 8.00pm would work, any days Monday to Friday. Saturdays we operate 9.00am to 5.30pm and Sundays 10.00am to 3.00pm. Get in touch, we are open, see if we can accommodate what works for you. It could be to work around school hours, you may be a student, or you could even just be looking to bolster your income. We will provide an opportunity with training and development where you will learn a first-class customer service approach via the phone, email, or even social media. A role where you will benefit from the camaraderie of a large team and support of new friends. We are keen to talk with people who bring a customer-focused approach – previous office or contact centre experience is not essential however you will be comfortable and confident communicating with people via the phone and email. Note; this is an office-based role, based in our Head Office, Abingdon, Oxon (Sundays are work from home). Apply now to have a chat. Gigaclear is a growing Fibre Broadband (FTTP / FTTH) company, developing our fibre-to-the-premises broadband infrastructure to some of the most difficult to reach areas of the UK, empowering those communities with broadband to rival any city. Staff rewards, benefits and opportunities We foster a collaborative, engaging culture that empowers staff to grow and maximise their skills. We want to challenge our people in a fair environment where hard work is rewarded and a path for progression is open to all. Generous employer pension; up to 8% matched contribution Income protection & life assurance 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), holiday purchase scheme and Yay Days! Health cash plan, 24/7 remote GP access and Employee Assistance Programme including counselling & legal advice Unlimited access to online training and development content via our Learning Management System Long service benefits and monthly employee recognition Enhanced maternity and paternity provisions Flexible working environment Health & Wellbeing initiatives and company funded social events Our approach is to work guided by our mission, vision and values. Our Mission - Empowering communities with brilliant broadband Our Vision - Connected Communities Our Values - Own it, Find the Right Way, Work Together, Win Together