- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 297 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti Grange Secondary School website

Data Manager and Exam Officer
More than one location, Avanti Schools TrustThis job expired on 11 July 2024 – see similar jobs
Job start date
31 August 2024
Closing date
11 July 2024 at 11:59pm
Date listed
4 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37.5 hours per week, 39 weeks
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Salary: Grade 6, £28,565 - £30,390 per annum pro rata. Approximate pro rata £24,104 - £25,644 per annum (0.84383 FTE)
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us and the role
Join our team as a Data Manager and take charge of our school's timetabling, exam arrangements, and reporting systems. You'll curate and analyse data, ensuring our MIS is used with integrity and our information stays accurate and secure. Conduct research, write impactful reports, and oversee third-party reporting systems, empowering users to perform their own analysis.
Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we'd encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.
What will you do?
- Create and maintain school timetable, set/class lists, and staff deployment data.
- Develop performance reports, school profiles and curriculum data analyses for SLT, ELT and external agencies.
- Formulate strategies to close attainment gaps and reduce in-school variance between subjects.
- Coordinate data collection for OFSTED inspections and ensure data accuracy, confidentiality and security.
- Manage internal assessments, statutory returns and local authority data, using third-party tools for benchmarks and targets.
- Oversee exam registration, budget, secure storage and ensure compliance with JCQ regulations, supporting learning support and Heads of Department.
What are we looking for?
- Demonstrable experience of developing and maintaining administrative systems and procedures.
- Significant experience of working in a similar role within an educational setting
- Experience of supervising other administrative staff effectively including the allocation of work
- Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young people
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
Avanti Grange Secondary School opened in September 2022 on the site of our new primary school, Avanti Meadows, before moving to a new, permanent site in September 2023. The school opened with 4 forms of entry (120 Year 7 students only) in September 2022 rising to 6 form of entry (180 Year 7 students) from September 2023.One of the many things that makes Avanti Grange Secondary School distinctive is its values-based approach to education. We encourage students to value self, others and the environment and empower them to be effective learners as well as good and responsible citizens.
We will develop resilient, communicative, and organised young people, the leaders of the future with drive and initiative. We will seek to create an environment where we can all live and thrive together, where the conditions for growth are ideal.
Our students will be:
- Courageous - with a strength to stand up for their beliefs and values
- Curious - with a love for lifelong learning
- Resilient - with no self-imposed limits
Avanti Grange Secondary School is part of Avanti Schools Trust, a successful and growing multi-academy trust (MAT) with a track record of delivering strong outcomes for children. The majority of our schools are significantly over-subscribed.
Why should you apply?
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth and to make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment.
- Great opportunities for professional development through the Avanti Institute and our family of schools
- NEST pension scheme subject to eligibility criteria
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Flexible working opportunities
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Access to multiple well-being programmes (Weekend Retreats, Yoga Classes and Apps)
- Cycle-to-work and Electric Vehicle Lease Schemes
- Free staff lunch and on site parking
Further details about the role
Further information
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Avanti Schools Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Website
- Avanti Schools Trust website
- Email address
- Careers@avanti.org.uk
Avanti Schools support each person’s life journey along three parallel paths: Educational excellence; Character formation; and Spiritual insight.
Avanti’s unique ethos places a key emphasis on each individual’s wellbeing and good mental health. Children with higher levels of emotional, behavioural, social, and school wellbeing, on average, have higher levels of academic achievement and are more engaged in the school community. All our schools share a dedicated approach to wellbeing, from providing yoga and mindfulness sessions, sports and exercise, charity work, and working with parents and carers as co-educators.
School Details
Avanti Grange Secondary School
Arranging a visit to Avanti Schools Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email Careers@avanti.org.uk.
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