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Examinations Officer

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

This 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.

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.

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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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