Examinations Manager
Avanti Grange Secondary School, Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2BD5 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
26 April 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
21 April 2026
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- 22.5 hours £15,990 - £16,966 per annum (£30,811 - £32,693 pro rata FTE) 37.5 hours £26,649 - £28,277 per annum (£30,811 - £32,693 pro rata FTE)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Exams are a defining moment in every student’s journey, and at Avanti Grange, we are looking for an ExaminationsManager who can ensure those moments run seamlessly. You will take ownership of the full exams cycle, bringing structure, precision and strong oversight to a complex and time-critical function. With responsibility for compliance, planning and delivery, your role will be key to maintaining the integrity and success of our examinations process. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact behind the scenes of student achievement.Please note that
37.5 hours may potentially also be considered due to future growth of school.
What will you do?
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of all internal and external examinations, ensuring full compliance with JCQ, awarding body and school regulations at every stage of the exams cycle.
- Manage all exam administration systems, entries and data with precision, maintaining secure handling of materials, accurate candidate records and adherence to key deadlines.
- Plan and coordinate exam logistics, including timetabling, rooming, invigilation and access arrangements, working closely with the SENCo and wider staff.
- Oversee exam series delivery, responding effectively to issues on the day, maintaining exam integrity and ensuring a calm, compliant environment for all candidates.
- Administer results and post-results processes, including issuing results, managing enquiries and maintaining strong communication with stakeholders throughout.
What are we looking for?
- Experience of examination administration or organisation
- Knowledge of examinations regulations or procedures
- Experience of compliance with the requirements of regulatory bodies
- Experience of working in a school environment
- Knowledge or understanding of school procedures
- Experience of working in an office and data-driven environment
- High level of personal organisation, time management and the ability to prioritise tasks, to design and implement efficient processes and to work without close supervision
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students
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
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development
- LGPS pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
Further information about the job
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.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Avanti Grange Secondary School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 464 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti Grange Secondary School website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Avanti Grange is a school that is committed to giving all children an engaging and enriching educational experience. We provide a richly diverse and connected school environment, representative of the world that our pupils will enter. Our pupils mature into individuals who are ambitious, open-minded and confident. Along with our academic pathway, we also take care to support individual character formation and spiritual insight through The Avanti Way.
Each pupil at our school is celebrated for their individual talents. For our pupils’, school is about exploring strengths and developing academic and personal skills that will ensure that every child is well prepared for the quickly changing world that awaits them. It is our promise that we will create an environment of challenge, enjoyment and collaboration, both within our school and throughout the Avanti Schools Trust and beyond.
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.
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