Exams Officer
Eden Park High School, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3RD8 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
8 July 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
26 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- NCJ Scale 7 points 21-25 (36 hours, 44 weeks)
Exams Officer job summary
Based at Eden Park High School
Education for the 21st Century is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.
We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.
Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.
MAIN DUTIES:
Maintain effective communication with Exam Board personnel, school staff, students and parents ensuring that all queries and appeals are dealt with efficiently meeting required deadlines.
Responsible for operating cost effectively within an Examination budget.
Manage and where required build relationships with external Examination Boards.
To liaise with Heads of Departments with regards to the relevant exam boards and syllabuses studied to examination level. To establish the number of entries at each tier and to process entries, predicted grades and coursework marks, and submitting entries so that Exam Boards receive correct student entries on time.
Responsible for the publication and distribution of exam timetables, procedures and exam board information including the resolution of clashes.
Responsible for the preparation and distribution of exam timetables for Mock examinations, including the resolution of clashes.
Access results of external examinations and manage the integration into the school MIS system.
With the Deputy Head/ Data Manager to be responsible for the analysis of examinations and assessment data producing easily accessible information for teachers and learners
Management of the conduct of all examinations ensuring that they meet with the regulations set out by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) covering all unitary exam bodies.
To put in place the relevant examination policies for the school so that the examination system, rules, and regulations set by the awarding bodies and JCQ are clear to all members of staff in the school.
Training of internal/ external invigilation.
Collate and submit required information for controlled assessment and/or coursework as required to efficiently meet required deadlines.
Manage the examinations team and external invigilators.
Support the SENDCo with applying to awarding bodies for access arrangements where required for candidates and ensuring they are seated appropriately.
Manage the daily running of external examinations, including ensuring the examination materials are in place for the start of the examination, collected, and dispatched after the examination in accordance with the appropriate regulations.
Preparation and organisation of examination materials, including managing the secure storage of examination papers.
To issue to all students taking exams an information pack with all JCQ regulations and the schools’ expectations of them, together with their examination timetable.
Manage the checking and distribution of Examination results and certificates.
Ensure all external and internal students have correct ULNs and UCI Numbers
To support in building an efficient and accurate administrative team.
To support with the collation and production of reports.
To cover Reception, greeting visitors and receiving telephone calls as required.
To supply administrative support using Word, Excel, PowerPoint
To be involved in training/INSET activities as identified at annual review.
*We reserve the right to this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Education for the 21st Century is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Education for the 21st Century is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.
Commitment to safeguarding
Education for the 21st Century is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Education for the 21st Century is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.
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About Eden Park High School
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 1190 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Eden Park High School website (opens in new tab)
Education for the 21st Century is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.
We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative, and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.
Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.
In joining Eden Park High School and the family of schools within E21C you will gain access to an unparalleled level of support and development in a forward-thinking school and trust.
Eden Park High School is a new school in Beckenham. We opened in 2017, moved into our purpose-built new premises in 2019, celebrated our first ever GCSE results in 2022 and have opened our new Sixth Form this September. With a new and expanded leadership team, this young school is starting an exciting new chapter as we build the culture, systems and teams that will see us expand further over the next two years and deliver an outstanding quality of education for the community.
We are currently recruiting exceptional teachers and support staff who want to be part of our journey of transformation. We want people who will share in our ethos and values and set a new standard of excellence and inspire young minds.
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