Examinations Officer - Twickenham, United Kingdom - Orleans Park School

Description

Examinations Officer

36 hours per week, full year

NJC Salary Scale S01 (£33,351 - £34,341)

Required September 2023

Permanent contract

Orleans Park is a successful and oversubscribed 11-18 mixed comprehensive that serves its local community in Twickenham with over 1,350 students.

The dedicated staff work hard to ensure students are successful and leave as responsible citizens and confident individuals.

We are seeking to appoint an Examinations Officer to play the pivotal role of overseeing the examinations process for our busy and thriving school.

- experience working in a similar role
- a high standard of communication and organisational skills
- the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines


What Orleans Park has to offer:
Please see our recruitment video and brochure on the Vacancies page of our website.

Orleans Park is committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything we do - from how we educate our students to how we support our staff.

Ensuring that we are always recruiting, retaining and promoting a diverse mix of colleagues who are representative of the diversity in our local communities gives us a great opportunity to have access to a broad range of ideas and allows us to provide an outstanding education to our young people and an outstanding place for people to work.

Job Title:
Examinations Officer


Reporting To:
Assistant Headteacher


Grade/Salary Range:
NJC Scale S01

• 36 hours per week, 52 weeks per year (with appropriate annual leave).
• The working hours will depend on the operation of the school and examination calendars. It will be necessary to work extra hours during busy times and followingGCSE/GCE results time in August until the beginning of the term in September.

Job Purpose

To secure the smooth running of internal and external examinations so that students are able to perform to the best of their abilities and to ensure the prompt dissemination of external exam results.

To support all staff with the internal and external examinations process.


Key Relationships:
Senior Leadership Team/Heads of Department/Heads of Year/Learning Support Department.


Main Duties and Responsibilities

External examinations and tests

• Coordinate and administer all external examination and test entries.
• Liaise with Senior Leadership Team, Heads of Department and Heads of Year as appropriate.
• Receive all examination and test stationery and materials, including examination papers.
• Ensure the safe and secure storage of all examination and test papers.
• Where necessary liaise with the Premises Team (setting up exams furniture), Cover Supervisor (room changes, teacher cover) and IT team (examination logins, technical advice).
• Ensure that the awarding bodies' regulations are followed in all exams and that Heads of Department are aware of regulations for nonexamination assessments.
• To attend examination board training and Network meetings as necessary.
• Deal with all correspondence from awarding bodies.
• To check entries against invoices and authorise as necessary. To query any discrepancies.
• Arrange for the posting of all external examination papers and test scripts, and controlled assessment samples for moderation.
• Process postresults service requests.
• Receive, store and organise the distribution of all certificates.
• Keep the Examination and Controlled Assessment policies up to date.

Internal examination

• Liaise with Heads of Department regarding their requirements for internal examinations.
• Write school examination timetables, including room allocations and invigilation timetables.
• Organise the distribution and return of examination papers and scripts.
• Oversee and coordinate the running of all examinations.

Invigilation

• Be responsible for recruiting, timetabling, training and supervising staff for temporary invigilation duties, at regular intervals during the academic year.
• Personal safeguarding and safer recruitment training must be up to date to enable the exams officer to facilitate and train other members of staff.

General Administration

• To support with data analysis, Options and timetabling at different points during the year when this can fit around exams work detailed above.
• To undertake any other reasonable administrative tasks as requested by the Line Manager.

This job description is not exclusive of the full range of professional duties of the post holder. Additional/alternative reasonable tasks may be required by the school at the discretion of the Line Manager or Headteacher.


YOUR APPLICATION

Please submit:
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A completed Support Staff Application Form

Which includes a supporting statement specifically addressing your own qualities and strengths in relation to the role and job description.

Kathy Pacey
Headteacher

March 2023


Safeguarding Statement
The governors and staff of Orleans Park fully recognise the contribution they make to safeguarding c