Examinations Manager
Houstone School, Dunstable, LU5 5PX32 days remaining to apply
Start date details
asap
Closing date
17 November 2025 at 7am
Date listed
16 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £32,371.00 - £36,672.00 Annually (FTE) AS 19-25 FTE £32,371-£36,672 pro rata £29,532-£33,456
Examinations Manager job summary
Examinations Manager
Houstone School is seeking an experienced Examinations Manager to join their dedicated Exams team and ensure the smooth and efficient running and delivery of both internal and external exams. We are seeking someone with very high expectations who loves working with young people and is ambitious to see them achieve. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of JCQ requirements, experience in running exams and leading an in-house invigilation team.
At Houstone, our values of Integrity, Ambition, Excellence are underpinned by very high expectations and drive in everything that we do. We have a powerful culture which is warm but strict, based on clear routines, systems, and structures. As a result, our staff enjoy their roles with impeccable behaviour in lessons and hardworking, highly motivated pupils.
Joining Houstone School as an Examinations Manager is a fantastic opportunity to be part of our story - providing transformational experiences for thousands of pupils, developing our staff to be the very best they can be, and influencing the wider system by demonstrating first-hand what is achievable.
Our trust is known for its ‘no excuses, can-do’ culture that seeks to prepare all its pupils to have the opportunity of a pathway to university. If you are passionate about helping all pupils, regardless of background, to achieve this, then this could be the role for you.
Key Duties:
- Organisation of any internal and external examinations including invigilation and rooming.
- Registering pupils onto GCSE, BTEC & Vocational courses.
- Submitting accurate examination entries for all external exams to awarding bodies in advance of deadlines.
- Organising SEN provision for pupils during exams by liaising with the SEN team and applying to awarding bodies for special arrangements for such candidates.
- Organising exam materials, providing safe custody of and organising examination stationery and materials, including question papers, in accordance with regulations.
- Producing a whole school examination timetable including dates, times, venues, number of candidates and invigilation requirements.
- Maintaining accurate records of all examinations, including seating plans, registers, invigilators log and incidents log.
- Dealing with cases of malpractice in both controlled assessment & examinations in line with JCQ regulations.
- Being present and available in school on the days when results are notified and overseeing the distribution of results to candidates.
- Processing all examination results and processing all remarks, re-moderation of coursework & script requests as well analysing outcomes of remarks with co-ordinators.
- Providing statistics on examination entries and results for the Head teacher, SLT & Heads of Department/Co-ordinators & Governors.
- Overseeing the checking and distribution of certificates.
- Support SLT to provide the collating analysis of examination data and progress grades.
Further details of specific duties are listed within the attached Recruitment Booklet
The ideal candidate will have:
- Experience of the operation of Examinations in schools.
- English and Maths at GCSE grade A-C or equivalent.
- ICT skills with experience of using Microsoft Office and databases and a willingness to tackle complex word processing tasks.
- Experience of working in a school office.
- Experience of operating computerised and manual systems.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate effectively and confidently face-to-face, on the telephone and in writing.
- A Strong work ethic, a willingness to work proactively, under pressure and to adjust working arrangements to meet day to day service demands.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, drive, energy and vision.
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
Job specifics
Start date: asap
Salary: AS 19-25 FTE £32,371-£36,672 pro rata £29,532-£33,456 dependent on experience
Job role: Permanent, Full Time, term-time plus 2 weeks, 37 hrs pr wk, Mon-Thu 8am to 4pm Fri 8am to 3:30pm with 30 mins for lunch
The Trust reserves the right to interview and appoint a suitable candidate before the deadline date.
Safeguarding
We believe in the safeguarding and welfare of children and expect all staff to share this view’.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. We are an equal opportunities employer.
The Department for Education (DfE) has set out statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ for schools and colleges on safeguarding.
Safeguarding is defined in paragraph 4 as:
“Protecting children from maltreatment; preventing impairment of children’s health or development; ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care; and taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.”
The definition of 'children' includes everyone under the age of 18.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding children enrolled at the School is of paramount importance, and we are fully committed to the protection and safe care of our pupils. The successful applicant will be required to undertake appropriate checks as well as providing proof of your right to work in the UK.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Houstone School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 657 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Houstone School website
Houstone School opened in September 2022 and we are determined to make a positive difference to the educational landscape in Houghton Regis and the surrounding areas.
There are some key differences that we believe make Houstone School so distinctive.
Houstone School will have very strong standards of behaviour, a different approach to pupils with additional needs that believes that they can meet the heights of their peers, and aspects like longer school days that fit in with modern family life, alongside a real commitment to getting the curriculum, teaching and learning right.
Houstone School, shaped by the families and the educational teams who design it, has freedom to direct resources where they are most needed, and to ensure that our curriculum is truly aspirational.
We believe that our combination of firm discipline, very high expectations, an academic knowledge-based curriculum, and a humble approach to feedback means that we can go on to be one of the highest-achieving schools in the country. We really do want to be a ‘grammar school for all’.
Our ambition is that every single pupil will be able to attend university, and most will attend the most selective universities. We are ambitious to be the best school in the country.
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