Examinations Officer
Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxfordshire, OX9 2AQThis job expired on 20 May 2025 – see similar jobs
Closing date
20 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
7 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,559.00 - £33,366.00 Annually (FTE) Actual starting salary of £21,371 per annum based on 29 hours per week, term time plus two weeks
Examinations Officer job summary
To organise and run vocational examinations (BTEC, Functional Skills, Cambridge Nationals/Technicals, ASDAN, Skills & Education Languages) under the direction of the Examinations Manager
Register students on all vocational courses at the beginning of the academic year
Make amendments to courses throughout the year, as required
Registration of new courses and completion of appropriate paperwork
Organising examinations for vocational courses:
- - Make entries
- - Download base data from examination boards for entries and results
- - Set up examinations in SIMS and organise seating and student timetables
- - Book rooms and organise invigilation
Monitoring and recording the receipt of examination papers and associated paperwork
Daily preparation for examinations e.g. exam papers, equipment, preparation of rooms (including computer rooms), in accordance with Joint Council Regulations, displaying Warning and Regulation Notices
Collect in scripts after examinations, check same, complete paperwork and despatch/upload of work using Examination Board online systems
Circulate information from Examinations Boards to Faculties
Ensure external verification of internal coursework is completed and make all claims according to deadlines
Act as the link between Examinations and Learning Support to ensure students are fully supported in the implementation of their access arrangements for examinations
Liaise with the Learning Support Department regarding students entitled to access arrangements, clarifying requirements and making appropriate examination preparations
Communicate examination deadlines to the Learning Support Department to ensure access arrangement assessments are conducted and implemented in line with key deadlines
Update SIMS examination system with access arrangements and monitor throughout the year, making amendments as required
Work with the Learning Support Department in the monitoring of arrangements in line with JCQ requirements
Make recommendations regarding student arrangements during examinations, utilising best use of available resources
Organise training for students using access arrangements
Training for invigilators on the implementation of access arrangements in examinations
Support the Examinations Manager during key exam times in the set up and running of general qualifications:
Assist with all aspects of examinations as required.
Further information about the job
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.
About Lord Williams's School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 2290 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Lord Williams's School website
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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