Exams Manager

Heckmondwike Grammar School, Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, WF16 0AH

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  21 October 2024 at 8am

• Date listed

  10 October 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 8.00am to 4.30pm Monday to Thursday, 8.00am to 4.00pm on a Friday 37 hours per week. All year round. Term Time + 15 days or flexible by negotiation
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Range 26 - Pt 26 – 30 (£34,834 – £38,223) pay award pending

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated and suitably experienced Exams Manager who will work closely with the Senior Leadership Team in a successful 11-18 grammar school. We are looking for a proactive and highly motivated Exams Manager who has an in-depth knowledge of Exams planning tools on the school’s Management Information Systems (SIMS) and can demonstrate meticulous attention to detail.

You will have responsibility for all school examination entries including NEA, as well as the organisation of mock examinations. In addition, you will have responsibility for the smooth running of results days alongside the Deputy Head teacher and the Data Manager.

The Exams Manager also plays a role in school admissions and the entrance examination. This is an ideal opportunity for a current Exams Manager or administrator to broaden their skills and experiences in a large high performing school.

A full handover period with the current post holder will be provided to ensure a smooth transition.

Specific responsibilities are set out in a detailed job description.

The successful candidate will need to be flexible and hardworking with excellent organisational skills and the ability to meet deadlines. Driven by your passion for data and information, you will enjoy sharing your knowledge with others, including through training.

Knowledge of school management and data systems is essential to this post.

What the school offers its staff

Heckmondwike Grammar School is a unique school, with students who are eager to learn, keen to know more and want to enjoy their educational experiences. It is exceptional in many ways: a very diverse school community that produces results of the highest quality. We work effectively with our young people, really care about them and their futures and have an ultimate success measure of enabling them to proceed to where they want to go. Excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm, expectations are high and students perform very well as a consequence.

In return, we offer membership of the local government pension scheme and other well-being benefits.

Further details about the role

Exams Manager

Are you an enthusiastic and suitably experienced Exams Manager?

Then this will be the job for you. We are looking to appoint an Exams Manager to lead data management and admissions within our school.

This post provides a fantastic opportunity to work within a high-performing, 11 to 18 grammar school with a large sixth-form and exceptional students.

We are delighted to have been named “Secondary School Of The Year”, “Soaring 57 places in the UK rankings to 77” out of approx 6000 secondary schools (state and independent) in the latest Sunday Times Parent Power Guide.

Commitment to safeguarding

Safeguarding Statement:

Heckmondwike Grammar School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its
students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Full details regarding our Safeguarding Procedures can be found on our website in the Safeguarding section, alternatively, please contact Recruitment to obtain a copy.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@heckgrammar.co.uk

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About Heckmondwike Grammar School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1474 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Heckmondwike Grammar School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@heckgrammar.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/heckmondwike-grammar-school-heckmondwike (opens in new tab)

We are delighted to have been named “Secondary School Of The Year”, “Soaring 57 places in the UK rankings to 77” out of approx 6000 secondary schools (state and independent) in the latest Sunday Times Parent Power Guide.

And for the second year running we are ranked No 2 in the North of England.

This is a fabulous accolade to the whole school community and just reward for years of hard work from staff, students and indeed parents.
The survey includes both GCSE and A level results and is nationally noted as a true measure of school performance using metrics of most interest to parents when selecting a school.

“Such accolades are very pleasing and we are delighted to be recognised, but they only come about because of the week in week out hard work from students and staff and I salute my colleagues and students, they are an exceptional team.” Mr Roberts, Headteacher.

Heckmondwike Grammar School is a unique school, with students who are eager to learn, keen to know more and want to enjoy their educational experiences. It is exceptional in many ways: a very diverse school community that produces results of the highest quality. We work effectively with our young people, really care about them and their futures and have an ultimate success measure of enabling them to proceed to where they want to go. Excellent relationships between staff and students are the norm, expectations are high and students perform very well as a consequence.

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