Deputy Exams Officer

USP are looking for an organised and efficient candidate providing crucial support for seamless exam administration. Detail-oriented with excellent communication skills. Ensuring a smooth testing experience for all students.

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Job Details

We are seeking a dedicated and organised Deputy Exams Officer to support our Exam Officer in ensuring the smooth running of all examinations processes. This role is crucial in providing excellent administrative support and ensuring accurate and timely completion of all examination tasks.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Manage the administration of vocational qualifications, including student registration and external assessment entries.
  • Assist with the processing of GCE and GCSE examination entries and re-sits.
  • Plan and deliver all on-campus examinations, including organizing invigilators and managing exam schedules.
  • Collate and distribute exam results, addressing post-result inquiries.
  • Handle day-to-day examination operations, including dealing with student, staff, and parent inquiries.
  • Support the Exam Officer in their absence.

The right candidate will have:

  • Strong organisational and time-management skills
  • Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
  • Proficiency in computer software, especially database and spreadsheet applications
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
  • A proactive and solution-oriented approach

Why choose us?

Our strategy is to create a Career Focused, Digital Learning environment, ensuring that the learner experience and our relationship within our community, local and regional employers, are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be selected as finalists for the AoC Beacon awards for effective use of digital Technology in FE. Providing a high achieving, focused learning environment allowing our students to achieve the grades they need for higher educations, or the skills and aptitude required to secure a suitable role in their chosen career. Our college is set in the leafy suburbs of Essex, with easy access to surrounding areas and amenities, we are based in a well-connected location both by road and rail.

What we offer:

* subject to terms & conditions

This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.  It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Self-declaration is subject to Ministry of Justice guidance on the disclosure of criminal records, further information can be found on GOV UK

USP College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, we therefore expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service, and any other checks that the role requires to ascertain suitability for working with children and/or vulnerable adults, which may include online searches.

We will hold and process any personal data, including sensitive (special category) personal data, relating to you in accordance with our legal obligations, in the manner set out in the Privacy Notice for staff and in accordance with our Data Protection Policy, which is set out on the College’s website, found here. You should familiarise yourself with our Data Protection Policy (and all other subsidiary policies to it) and comply with them at all times. Neither the Privacy Notice for Staff nor those policies form a part of your contract of employment.