Curriculum Software Manager

Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 2AQ

Deadline is today

• Closing date

  20 March 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  5 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • IT support
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,818.00 - £35,426.00 Annually (Actual) The salary for the post is Grade 11. The actual salary is based on 30 hours per week full-time throughout the year. The full-time equivalent pay is £40,476 to £43,693. This is a fixed-term post to 31st August 2027 at which point it will be reviewed.

Curriculum Software Manager job summary

Job Purpose

• To manage, develop and maintain the school’s curriculum software and other related software applications
• To work with the school’s MIS Manager and Network Manager to ensure the school maximises the use of its MIS software, making recommendations for improving school efficiency
• To provide training and support to school staff to ensure effective use of the curriculum software systems used within school

Key Responsibilities

To provide support for the Senior Leadership Team with:

Timetable and Options

• SIMS Nova T6 timetabling software including timetable construction, data entry and daily updating of student and staff timetables. Distribution of timetables to staff and students as required
• Setting up the academic year and transferring data between Nova T6 and SIMS.net
• Entering students into classes in SIMS.net via SYLK files
• Managing subject carousels throughout the year
• Entering Alternative Provision and non-class codes onto student timetables
• Setting up Year 9 and Year 12 Options Implementations and entering student choices.
• Working during the summer holidays to support Sixth Form Registration, allocation of option choices, timetable construction and preparing timetables and Information Packs in readiness for the new school year

Course Manager

Working collaboratively with the Examinations and Assessment Managers to:

• Maintain SIMS Course Manager, ensuring that the data is accurate and up to date
• Support the work of the Examination and Assessment Managers in their areas of work

School Census Returns

• Be responsible for preparing and completing the Autumn, Spring and Summer Census returns ensuring data is accurate and that the school receives the correct funding
• Keeping abreast of legislative changes that impact curriculum and funding

SIMS Next Gen

Working collaboratively with the MIS and Network Managers to:

• Lead the SIMS Next Gen project to move the school’s MIS software onto the cloud
• Be aware of developments in MIS and educational initiatives and make recommendations to the School Manager on the use of software to support school improvement initiatives
• Investigate the potential of new procedures and systems that contribute to the maintenance of the highest possible level of administrative efficiency in the school, and action
• Assist staff in the production of reports and data, ensuring the accuracy of data
• Undertake housekeeping and archiving of data with due regard to GDPR/ Data Protection Act

Commitment to safeguarding

Lord Williams’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks along with other relevant employment checks.

Applying for the job

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About Lord Williams's School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 2276 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lord Williams's School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lord-williams-s-school

Lord Williams’s School is a thriving and popular comprehensive school serving the Thame community and its surrounding rural area. We are a split-site school, with Years 7 – 9 on the Lower School site at Towersey Road and Years 10 – 13 on the Upper School site at Oxford Road. We pay particular attention to each individual student by promoting their personal, social and educational development to enable all to achieve at the highest level possible. As a result of our continuing success, Lord Williams’s School is consistently oversubscribed.

We promote high quality teaching and learning. We attract talented, committed and conscientious teachers who produce stimulating and challenging learning activities helped by experienced support staff. Teamwork is a key feature of our work.

We are an inclusive school; we cater for all abilities and we provide access for all students. This is reflected in our work with the more able, with students with a range of learning and other difficulties and in our admissions policy for the Sixth Form.

The school has excellent teaching facilities on both sites with accommodation that is suited to the demands of the curriculum.

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