Examinations Officer

**Summary**
Do you have experience overseeing exam and school related data? We are looking for a coordinated Examinations Officer to plan and organise all internal and external examinations across Harris Academy Battersea.

**About Us**
Harris Academy Battersea is a mixed state secondary school serving a truly comprehensive community in the heart of London. We are an Ofsted ‘**Outstanding**' school with a track record of delivering fantastic outcomes year on year for our students.

Our Academy is centred on the values of **Knowledge, Integrity and Resilience** and these underpin the way we work for both students and staff. Our staff are inclusive, diverse and committed to our mission: we develop aspirational young people to thrive in a changing world.

HABS offers a broad, academic and challenging curriculum founded on six key curriculum aims:

- To develop deep, long-lasting knowledge
- To develop students into accomplished readers, writers and orators
- To provide experiences within and beyond the classroom that enrich learning and ensure students can make informed choices about their futures
- To equip students to challenge injustice in all its forms
- To enable students to understand how they learn
- To support students to reflect on their choices and values to improve themselves and their community

These aims underpin all elements of our curriculum, and **we see our core academic curriculum and wider personal development curriculum as intrinsically linked**. All staff at the Academy contribute to the personal development of our students through their roles as tutors and through their contributions to the wider life of the academy.

A thriving school can only function with fantastic staff, and our vision is to make teaching at HABS both **enjoyable and sustainable**. The wellbeing of staff underpins every decision we make, and we seek to ensure that every member of staff can enjoy a work-life-balance enabling them to bring their best to work each day.

At HABS, **professional growth and development** is central to our mission. Our professional development motto is ‘improve, not prove' and leaders are relentlessly focussed on supporting staff in getting even better through a wide range of internal and external training opportunities.

**Main Areas of Responsibility**
In this varied role, your responsibilities will include:

- Producing students’ examination timetables and disseminating the information via tutors
- Producing a staff invigilation timetable and cover for Invigilators if necessary
- Ensuring all staff and parents are fully informed of examination details
- Displaying and updating the exams notice board
- Completing examination entries using the MIS
- Organising the setting up of the examination area
- Delivering examination scripts to the Invigilators
- Safe keeping of examination registers and seating plans
- Liaising with the SENCO to ensure any special arrangements are in place
- Making alternative arrangements for students with examination clashes
- Ensuring all estimated grades are returned to the appropriate Examination Boards
- Taking delivery of and checking examination scripts and ensuring these are kept in a secure place
- Organising the distribution of all external examination results and producing the required analysis
- Dealing with issues arising from the issue of examination results
- Dispatching examination scripts, including coursework
- Familiarising supervision staff/invigilating staff with invigilation procedures
- Circulating all exam publications to relevant staff
- Arranging the collection of examination certificates
- Uploading and maintaining baseline data for students - including KS2/KS3/CAT/FFT data
- Producing baseline data list for staff
- Support on reporting, including generating reports for all stakeholders, fully utilising the MIS system
- Producing accurate data in a timely fashion.

**Qualifications & Experience**
- English and Mathematics GCSE or equivalent
- Degree or equivalent
- Knowledge of the examination system and procedures
- Knowledge of Microsoft software
- Knowledge of National curriculum
- Three years’ experience of working in an inner-city school or educational establishment
- Experience in a similar role
- The ability to communicate with students from a range of different backgrounds
- Strong skills in the use of databases, with the ability to produce user friendly data
- The ability to recruit, organise and manage exam invigilators

For a full job description and person specification, please download the Job Pack.

**Next Steps**

**Professional Development & Benefits**
Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.

In addition to the opportunities for career developm