Website Active Recruitment
Job Title: Exams Officer
Setting: Mainstream Secondary School
Location: Greenwich, London
Duration: 1 Year Maternity Cover
Pay: £30,000 – £31,000
Active Recruitment are currently working with an Outstanding Mainstream Secondary school based in Greenwich who are looking for an Exams Officer to start as soon as possible to cover a one year maternity. This is a highly reputable school with state of the art facilities and excellent teaching spaces.
Roles and Responsibilities of the Exams Officer
- Implementing the school’s examinations system through effective procedures both working autonomously and under the direction of the Director of Learning for Systems and Procedures or Senior Leadership Team.
- Leading and managing the daily running of internal and external examinations.
- Ensuring the safe receipt/custody/security and organisation of examination stationery and materials, including question papers, in accordance with examination (JCQ) regulations.
- Leading and ensuring the safe storage of pupil personal data within the school and external systems with respect to exams access arrangements.
- Overseeing the secure collection and dispatching of worked scripts in accordance with the JCQ regulations.
- Overseeing the team of invigilators and their deployment during exams.
- Briefing invigilators regarding the requirements and expectations of their role
- Ensuring the team of invigilators have received guidance on the school’s safeguarding processes and have appropriate lanyards
- Taking lead decisions on the deployment of invigilators in the event of any issues with coverage.
- Taking lead decisions with regard to examination practices and regulations during the internal and external examinations.
- Leading on the schools access arrangements including reviewing and updating the school’s access arrangements policy as required.
- Working with the SEND team to ensure that the access arrangements are completed appropriately and in accordance with the school’s policy.
- Leading on the safe storage of pupil personal data with respect to access arrangements.
- Organising the examinations rooms in accordance with JCQ regulations.
- Administering the Centre timetable including dates, times, venues and number of candidates for the Senior Leadership Team, including details of access arrangements, such as rooming’s and staffing.
Benefits of working with Active Recruitment
- Health & Wellbeing support, discounts on travel and retail outlets from our partners
- A dedicated consultant on hand for support
- All of our staff are paid in line with the Agency Worker Regulations, meaning your pay will be equal to that of a permanent employee
- We offer online training for all of our staff including First Aid, Special needs qualifications, Child safeguarding and more!