Exam Officer (job share)
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Sutton Grammar School
Sutton - South London
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- £25934-£30291 FT so £9180 - £10,722 for 2 days, 42 weeks
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 27 May 2018
Job overview
Examinations Officer – job share (2 days per week) with the existing exams officer who is stepping down from full time to 3 days per week.
This is a key role in school. The administration of exams is complex in schools with public exams at year 11 and year 13 on which the futures of the students often depend. There are very precise regulations covering external exams that need to be adhered to. Exam entries need to be accurate, plans for exams both internal and external made in good time with excellent communication needed with students, their parents and subject heads too. The team of exam invigilators needs to be managed.
Julie Pelling has been the Examinations Officer here for a long time and does a brilliant job. She is now seeking to reduce her hours and we are looking for the role to be done as a job share, with the new sharer doing two days and the existing post holder doing three days. The job has some times of the year that are more pressurised than others but the post is advertised as 42 weeks per year, which would include all the normal school term days and 3 weeks of duties especially around the date of the publication of public exam results in mid-August.
We have the capacity to train the person appointed in all the specific duties. Much of the exams entry and results work uses computer software (we will be using SIMS from September 2018) and the person appointed must be confident with the use of computers.
The tasks within this post often have very precise deadlines and the ability to work accurately under pressure is an important quality to have.
We have a small team of highly able staff in our support team at the school and they like working in a slightly smaller school, with low staff turn-over. Please consider applying for this role. We anticipate a September start date.
Our salaries take account of local authority pay ranges and we still use Sutton’s job evaluation method to ensure we are offering fair pay for our roles. The full time salary range for this post would be £25,934 -£30,291 which equates to £9,180 - £10,722 for 2 days per week, 42 working weeks per year.
There is a job description for this post and some indication of the person specification for the person we are seeking to be part of our job share for the post of Examinations Officer.Examinations Officer
The School
Sutton Grammar School is a selective school currently with 936 on roll, boys only up to year 11 and with girls now invited to join the sixth form. It is located in the London Borough of Sutton. It is graded outstanding by Ofsted.
To Apply
Please complete the online application form by clicking on the apply here button by Wednesday 30th May
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About Sutton Grammar School
Introduction
Sutton Grammar School is a five form entry boys' grammar school. It moved to the current site in 1928 and in recent years has added several new buildings to cope with the growth of pupil numbers. It is one of five selective schools in Sutton serving this suburb on the edge of London. From September 2017 girls have been admitted to the sixth form. We seek to provide a well rounded education with extra curricular contributions highly valued and supported - including lots of participation in drama, music, CCF and DofE. STEM project work is especially well developed with many national and international awards for individual students and teams.
Almost all students aspire to go to university and we place more than our fair share at the top institutions. We value the breadth and balance of our curriculum and seek parental support to sustain smaller subjects in the sixth form.
Location
Sutton Grammar School (post code SM1 4AS) is located near Sutton town centre in a residential area just behind the High Street. The railway station is only 5 minutes walk away and many bus routes radiate from Sutton town centre. The school owns excellent playing fields in Northey Avenue (Cheam).
Sutton is a London Borough but is on the edge of London so is conveniently close to London for its social life (train 25 minutes to Victoria) but is more affordable to buy or rent and is within minutes of the countryside.
All of Sutton's schools are very good and the borough is regularly in the top few authorities for school results.
Attraction for Teachers
The school is an attractive place to work and develop one's career. We have been a hub school for biology in the local Training School Partnership, and a regular provider of PGCE placements for other subjects too. Trained mentors are therefore available to support our own NQTs. There is a full programme of CPD for all staff, with a lot of sharing of expertise within the school. We have a single staff room and therefore all staff socialise together and we try to involve all staff to support their well-being. There is a staff badminton club, spin classes and the sports hall and gym can be freely used by staff. Tea and coffee are available in the staff room. Wide staff participation in school sport and supporting clubs and activities contributes to it being a busy but engaged staff team. We look to retain the loyalty of staff by being as flexible as possible when staff want to become part time or need to change aspects of their working arrangements. Teachers are assisted by an outstanding team of support staff - not great in number but highly capable and flexible. The pupil roll is currently 1,023 with 345 in the sixth form. The school is heavily oversubscribed and has an excellent reputation for its extra curricular programme as well as its strong academic results. It is a science and maths specialist school, but seeks and achieves high standards across all curriculum areas. Staff turnover is low which is an excellent indicator that this is a very good school to work in. Newly qualified teachers are always welcome but experience is also valued and for each post we look for the best person that will enthuse young people and complement the skills of our existing team.
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