We are seeking an inspirational and motivational Examinations Manager with the drive, commitment and creativity to support us in providing the best possible opportunities for our pupils. You will be a well-organised individual with good administrative, communication and IT skills. Salary may be negotiable for the right candidate. Required for January 2025, start date subject to pre-employment checks.
Hall Green School is a very popular, heavily oversubscribed and academically successful 11 to 16 Converter Academy. We are a highly diverse institution, both ethnically and as a fully accessible mainstream school, attracting pupils from across the city with physical disabilities. We have wonderful pupils who fully contribute to the school’s ‘caring, nurturing and inclusive culture’ described by Ofsted (2019) as ‘a welcoming and inclusive school’ where ‘pupils are happy, and they achieve well’ and the ‘positive relationships between pupils and staff are a hallmark of the school’.
You will be working 36.5 hours per week excluding a 30 minute lunch break, Monday to Friday, term-time only + 1 week.
Responsibilities:
* Ensure the administration, organisation and smooth running of all examinations.
* Be responsible for examination entries for external exams to the examination boards for public and GCSE exams.
* Liaise with Heads of Department and KS4 Coordinators on entries.
* Disseminate information about public exams to staff, pupils, and parents.
* Liaise with staff, parents, pupils and deal with complaints and queries about public examinations including 1 to 1 meetings with parents.
* Handle and ensure the security of examination papers as they arrive.
* Recruit, interview, manage and lead a team of invigilators.
Most importantly, we are looking for a candidate who shares the school’s approach and commitment to the success and wellbeing of its young people. You are warmly invited to speak to the Deputy Headteacher (Raising Standards) and to make an appointment to visit the school in action.
I strongly recommend you visit the school to meet us and find out more about the role. Please contact my PA, Mrs. Paula Elliott, to arrange a convenient time.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore, the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
For further details and an application pack please see the school website or email recruitment@hallgreen.bham.sch.uk.
Please note that all applicants must complete the school’s application form only. Any other form of application or CVs alone will not be accepted.
Interviews will take place week commencing: Monday 6 January 2025.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check (where applicable); Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. An online search will also be carried out on all shortlisted candidates.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. This 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.
This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.
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