Exams Officer
Cowes Enterprise College, An Ormiston Academy, Cowes, Isle of Wight, PO31 8HB19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP pending pre-recruitment checks
Closing date
2 December 2024 at 9am
Date listed
29 August 2024
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
- £25,259.00 - £26,514.00 Annually (Actual) Actual starting salary based on FTE of £27,269
Exams Officer job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed professional to oversee and manage all of our examination processes.
The Exams Officer is responsible for managing all aspects of the school’s internal and external examination procedures and ensuring that the process is managed accurately and efficiently so that students have an examination environment that will allow them the best opportunity to succeed.
The role will require you to have excellent communication skills to ensure effective liaison with Exam Boards, students, staff and Senior Management. Candidates must be flexible, have excellent prioritisation and organisational skills and a keen eye for detail. A high level of IT proficiency is important and prior experience working in an exams department would be an advantage, but not essential as full training will be given.
Cowes Enterprise College is a successful and happy school with strong outcomes. We are part of the Ormiston Academies Trust, a Trust determined to ensure that all young people have access to the highest academic, social and practical skills. Our ambition is to empower students to become independent and confident with the self-belief that they can influence change along with providing the support and guidance to teach them skills they will need in adulthood.
Our new colleague will also benefit from being part of Ormiston Academies Trust, a MAT of 43 primary and secondary academies. The Trust’s vision is for all young people to have access to the highest academic, social and practical skills required to achieve their full potential. OAT support all staff so that they can enhance and develop their professional skills whatever their role within the trust.
As a member of Ormiston Academies Trust, you will be able to access a range of training and development opportunities.
As an Exams Officer, you will need to have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to communicate successfully with students and staff alike. You will have a proven track record of working with a high level of accuracy, professionalism and confidentiality and be a highly organised individual with excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritise a busy workload.
Although the average hours for the post are 37 per week, you will be required to work in excess of these hours in the approach to and during the main exam season, typically from March to the end of June. Time off in lieu will then be given at other times.
At Cowes, we are keen to ensure that we support the physical and mental wellbeing of our staff. We offer access to an employee advice service which provides information, helpful resources, and a counselling service. A discount programme, Vivup, provided by the Ormiston Academies Trust for all staff. Discounted membership is available for local leisure facilities which include a gym. Staff are able to access travel discounts for ferries and we provide eyesight tests for VDU users and annual flu vaccinations. We have free parking on site and we also ensure that tea and coffee is available for you!
If you have any questions, please contact Kirsty Appel, HR Administrator via email: kappel@cowesec.org
If you want to work with a great team of staff and students, and feel that you have the right skills, please apply before the closing date of 9am on 2 December. Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should a suitable candidate be found.
Cowes Enterprise College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Ormiston Academies Trust embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Flexible working opportunities will be considered.
All successful appointments will be subject to suitability checks in accordance with KCSIE, including identity, Right to Work, qualifications, online searches, prohibition check, two references and enhanced DBS check including Children’s Barred List.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, which provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Commitment to safeguarding
Cowes Enterprise College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Suitability checks will be undertaken in accordance with KCSIE, including identity, Right to Work, qualifications, Prohibition check, two references and enhanced DBS check including Children’s Barred List.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Cowes Enterprise College, An Ormiston Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1256 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
Rachel Kitley, Principal
Cowes Enterprise College, situated on the Isle of Wight, minutes from the mainland and international links yet also minutes from the beach, is a wonderful place to work.
The work of everyone at Cowes Enterprise College is defined by the children that we serve. Their future is our purpose and the purpose of everyone who works across the Ormiston Academies Trust. Educating for life is what Cowes Enterprise College is about: developing a love of learning and preparing students for life itself and all it presents to us. Our aim is for students to fulfil their limitless potential – through perseverance and effort.
We don’t select our students, but we do select our staff. We look for highly trained and dedicated staff to be here to support, guide and inspire our students so that whatever their starting point when they arrive, our students will leave with the world at their feet – equipped and ready to continue their learning through apprenticeships, at university and throughout their careers.
We aim to provide the best opportunities – academic, cultural and sporting – and a sense of moral and social responsibility so that each child realises that humanity is their business and the common good their aim. We take our mission to educate for life seriously and this is epitomised by the student entitlement to a key set of experiences summarised in the student charter. We provide our children with a rich and dynamic curriculum and draw upon our local context to show our pupils why they should be proud of our island.
You will be joining team that Ofsted said ‘focuses relentlessly on the quality of teaching and on the progress pupils make’ and should be prepared to do the same. We are proud of our strong results however recognise that there is much work yet to do and our high expectations mean this work will be relentless and ongoing. Our mission to educate for life doesn’t stop with our pupils.
We have a research driven approach to leadership, management and professional development. Taking what is best from the world of education and translating that into our classrooms. We also know that to have high expectations we also need to provide a high level of support for everyone in our community. That is why we have a staff charter, a public promise to all our staff, and make the most of our national network in order to develop staff. From September our professional development network will extend significantly as we work in partnership with HISP Teaching School Hub. We are the Isle of Wight base where we will deliver high quality nationally recognised and accredited courses by island teachers for island teachers. As part of this work we will also working with the HISP Research School and the Education Endowment Foundation to take part in cutting edge education research.
If you have not visited us before we have a comprehensive virtual tour which allows you to get a feel for our amazing facilities, along with a wealth of information on our website. We must succeed, because these are not just other people’s children. They are also our children. Not even one should be allowed to fail while there is more we could have done to change their story.
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