Nottingham High School is delighted to invite applications for three positions within our visionary and philanthropic Development Office to join our dedicated and supportive team. These are exciting opportunities for proactive and enthusiastic professionals to play key roles in advancing the School’s fundraising, alumni relations, events, and stakeholder engagement activities. Working closely with colleagues, alumni, parents, donors, and friends of the School, the successful candidates will contribute to cultivating meaningful relationships, inspiring philanthropic support, delivering high-quality communications and events, and helping to realise the School’s ambitious strategic development objectives. We welcome applications from individuals who are passionate about philanthropy, relationship-building, and educational opportunity, committed to excellence, and eager to make a significant contribution to our vibrant school community.
The Archivist is responsible for the preservation, management, and development of the School’ s Archive, ensuring its collections are protected, accessible, and effectively used to support heritage, alumni engagement, fundraising, and institutional storytelling. The role will lead archive cataloguing, digitisation initiatives, research services, and public engagement activities, helping to bring the School’ s history to life for a wide range of audiences.
Archive Management
- Manage, catalogue, and preserve the School’ s archive collections in accordance with professional standards.
- Develop and maintain archive policies, procedures, and collections management systems. Ensure appropriate conservation, storage, and handling of archival materials.
- Maintain accurate records of acquisitions, loans, and archive holdings.
Digitisation and Access
- Lead archive digitisation projects to improve preservation and accessibility.
- Develop and maintain digital archive resources and collections.
- Support online archive initiatives and digital preservation activities.
- Facilitate access to archive materials for staff, alumni, researchers, and other stakeholders.
Storytelling and Engagement
- Research and develop historical content to support fundraising, alumni relations, marketing, and communications activities.
- Contribute to publications, exhibitions, anniversary projects, and campaign storytelling.
- Respond to archive enquiries and provide research support for internal and external audiences.
- Identify and share stories that celebrate the School’ s heritage and community.
Stakeholder Support
- Support alumni, development, and school events through the provision of archive materials and historical content.
- Collaborate with colleagues across the School on heritage projects, commemorations, and special initiatives.
- Promote engagement with the archive through talks, displays, exhibitions, and other outreach activities.
Essential
- Professional experience in archive or collections management.
- Knowledge of archive cataloguing standards and best practice. Experience of archive digitisation and collections care.
- Strong organisational, research, and information management skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage multiple projects.
Desirable
- Experience within an educational, heritage, museum, or cultural organisation.
- Knowledge of digital preservation and archive management systems.
- Experience supporting exhibitions, public engagement, or outreach projects.
- Interest in using archives to support fundraising, alumni engagement, and institutional storytelling.
Completed application forms should be sent electronically to [email protected] no later than 9am on Friday 03 July 2026.
Please not that early applications will be considered and invited for interview prior to the applications closing date.
Nottingham High School is rich in tradition and has been educating children for more than 500 years. Most important, it is a community and the people who work here believe that they can make a difference to children at the school. If you would like to join a dynamic and inclusive environment, where we enable all of our staff to be the best that they can be, then we would love to hear from you.
Full information and details of the role and responsibilities can be found in the Candidate Information Pack on our website (https://nottinghamhigh.co.uk/contact-us/current-vacancies).
Nottingham High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and any appointment will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure as well as any other pre-employment checks. In addition, Nottingham High School does not hold a sponsor licence and does not have current plans to obtain one. Applicants must be aware of their individual responsibility to provide the necessary documents to confirm the right to work in the UK as a part of our pre-employment checks.
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Work Location: In person
