Exams Manager
West Nottinghamshire College, Derby Road, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG18 5BH11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
18 October 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
7 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Leadership and management
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: (37 hours per week, permanent, Monday to Friday)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £40,598
What skills and experience we're looking for
As Exams Manager within the Quality & Standards team, you will be required to demonstrate strong leadership, strategic oversight, and a high level of autonomy, self-motivation, organisational skills, and initiative. The focus of the role is to lead and manage the college's examination’s function, ensuring the delivery of a professional, customer-focused, and compliant service to internal stakeholders and external organisations, including Awarding Bodies and regulatory authorities.
You will lead and manage the college's examinations and assessment function, ensuring that all external and internal examinations are administered efficiently, accurately and in accordance with awarding-body regulations, JCQ requirements and college policies.
You will have overall responsibility for the planning, coordination, management, and continuous improvement of all examinations-related activities and processes across the college, ensuring that key deadlines are met and awarding body regulations are adhered to at all times.
The role requires you to provide operational leadership and management of the Exams team, ensuring resources are effectively deployed to meet business demands and deliver high levels of service. You will oversee workload planning, performance management, staff development, and the implementation of efficient and effective working practices.
Working closely with curriculum, support services, senior leaders, and external partners, you will ensure the integrity, accuracy, and security of examinations data and processes. You will be responsible for producing, analysing, and presenting management information reports, using data to inform decision-making, identify trends, and support continuous improvement initiatives.
It is essential that you possess excellent interpersonal, leadership, and communication skills, with the confidence and authority to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels across the college and with external organisations. You will demonstrate the ability to manage competing priorities, work under pressure to tight deadlines within the college's business cycle, and maintain the highest standards of accuracy, confidentiality, and information security.
You will lead and manage the Exams team to ensure the successful delivery of all examination and assessment activities throughout the academic year, promoting a culture of excellence, accountability, compliance, and continuous improvement.
The role will require you to embed the college’s values; Respect, Integrity, Collaboration, Compassion and Ambition.
What the college offers its staff
You will be entitled to 39 days leave: 27 holiday leave, 8 bank holidays and 4 concessionary days.
Please note the concessionary days are for the two-week Christmas closure. During this period, you will be required to use up to 3 working days of your annual leave entitlement to cover part of the closure. Leave entitlement will be calculated on a pro rata basis for part-time hours.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on college website (opens in new tab)About West Nottinghamshire College
- Organisation type
- FE College, ages 16 to 99
- Education phase
- Sixth form or FE college
- Size
- No information available
- Age range
- 16 to 99
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- Email address
- sydney.burton@wnc.ac.uk
This is a great opportunity for dynamic, professional individuals qualified in English to join a forward-thinking college to develop and teach GCSE and/or Functional Skills to groups of learners from cross college.
This is an exciting opportunity to work with a dynamic team to support learners gain their essential English skills through their programmes of study.
You will need to possess a teaching qualification and have a good knowledge of and professional experience within teaching. You will have excellent interpersonal, communication and administrative skills showing a flexible and professional attitude.
It is essential that you have the ability to build positive relationships, displaying excellent communication, organisational skills and administrative skills demonstrating a flexible and professional attitude. You will be a highly self-motivated, energetic and driven individual, encompassing a strong sense of autonomy. You will possess excellent presentation and communication skills and be able to demonstrate achievement of targets.
The role will require you to embed the college’s values, Respect, Integrity, Collaboration, Compassion and Ambition.
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