Bookings & Events Manager

Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL51 3EF

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  11 August 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  17 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Monday 10:30am - 6:00pm, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 10:30am - 6:30pm and Sunday 8:15am - 4:15pm (including 30 minute unpaid lunch break every day)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Actual salary £29,572 - 35,235 annual pro rata (Based on Grade H16-25) (Pay award pending)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential:

• GCSE or equivalent in English and Maths
• Post 16 qualifications e.g. A Levels/BTEC
• Evidence of further professional development relevant to the role

Desirable:

• Knowledge of safeguarding procedures
• First-aid certificate
• Level 3 personal trainer qualification
• Degree, 2:2 or above

Experience, understanding and knowledge

Essential:

• Experience of sales, bookings and event administration and management
• Interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships quickly and work with a range of stakeholders internal and external to the school
• Experience of financial processes including cash handling, taking card payments and invoicing
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Experience of managing, motivating and developing people
• Computer literate, with a good understanding and experience of using Microsoft Office and a willingness to learn new systems and processes
• Knowledge of relevant health and safety procedures and accepted good practice
• Experience of developing and maintaining contacts with outside agencies as appropriate
• A commitment to professional development

Desirable:

• Experience of working in a sports or leisure facility
• Experience of working in the higher education sector
• Experience of working within a professional sports club/organisation;
• A qualification in sport or events management;
  

What the school offers its staff

Employee Benefits:

Lifestyle and wellbeing

• Salary sacrifice electric car leasing scheme
• Four electric car charging points
• Family-friendly policies
• Attractive salary and pension
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Free one-to-one wellbeing support with a qualified psychotherapist and a coach
• Onsite parking facilities and cycle storage
• Free/discounted access to the school’s onsite Gym (conditions apply)
• Cycle to work scheme Techscheme – save money on the latest tech from Apple and Currys PC World
• Blue Light Card - Discount scheme
• Staff social events
• Onsite catering (8.00am - 1.30pm daily)

Statutory and other benefits

• The full range of statutory benefits including sick pay, maternity, parental, and adoption leave
• Enhanced Paternity Leave Policy
• We will honour your continuity of service in other state-funded schools in relation to sick pay and pension rights.
• Provision of all necessary IT equipment

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are an equal opportunities employer and value and respect diversity across our whole school community. Bournside is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Applying for the job

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CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1862 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre website
• Email address: recruitment@bournside.com
• Phone number: 01242235555
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cheltenham-bournside-school-and-sixth-form-centre-cheltenham

Bournside is the largest comprehensive 11-18 school in Gloucestershire. We are an established single academy trust with a good reputation (Ofsted ‘Good’ rating 2022), wide catchment, and a strong presence in the community. Our school is consistently oversubscribed with a PAN of 300, and most of our students choose to stay with us for their
post-16 study.

Bournside is a mixed, non-denominational academy school for students aged 11 to 18. It is located in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. It settled in its current location of Warden Hill in the early part of the 1970s and converted to academy status in 2011.

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