Lead Invigilator
Stonyhurst
Lancashire
- £15 per hour
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Part Time, Casual
- Apply by:
- 1 May 2025
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Lead Invigilator to join us Exams team at Stonyhurst, to provide oversight, coordination and supervision of invigilators during exam sessions, ensuring full compliance with JCQ/IB/Cambridge assessment and school regulations. This position is essential to maintaining the integrity and security of the examination process.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
To assist the Examinations Officers in the smooth and efficient running and administration of internal and external examinations.
- Supervise and coordinate the team of invigilators during exam sessions, ensuring all roles are performed correctly.
- Allocate tasks to invigilators, including distributing papers, patrolling the room and assisting candidates.
- Ensure all invigilators follow all exam board and school regulations.
- Arrive early to set up exam venues, ensuring proper seating arrangements, clocks and necessary materials.
- Check that exam materials, scripts and stationary are available before the exam begins.
- Provide guidance and support to new invigilators.
- Assist with the training and annual updates for invigilators alongside the Examinations Officers.
- Act as the first point of contact for unexpected issues such as disruptions, illnesses or suspected malpractice.
- Ensure any exam irregularities are documented and reported to the Examinations Officer immediately. Check all exam incident logbooks at the end of an exam session and report back to the Examinations Officers.
- Manage emergency situations during exams, including fire alarms or technical failures.
- Brief invigilators at the start of each session and clarify any special arrangements for candidates with access requirements.
- Ensure exam conditions are maintained at all times, addressing any noise or distractions.
- Confirm that all scripts are collected, checked and in order of the attendance registers. Package scripts alongside / under supervision of the Examinations Officers.
- Complete Parcel Force and DHL daily logs.
- Ensure at the end of the examination that the venue is left in a suitable condition for the next examination and that stationary and equipment is replenished.
- Complete necessary exam logs or incident reports if required
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About Stonyhurst
Stonyhurst is the UK’s leading co-educational Catholic boarding and day school for 3 – 18-year-olds.
Founded in 1593, it is the oldest continuously active Jesuit school in the world. Pupils come from throughout the United Kingdom as well as from abroad. It is a cosmopolitan family and proudly British. With children from over 27 countries, its cultural diversity adds to the richness and global outlook of the school community.
Stonyhurst was made fully co-educational in 1999. It has a long history of nurturing men and women of individuality, generosity, and service. Catholic martyrs, war heroes, politicians, rebels, writers, scientists, explorers, and actors are among the former pupils, a testimony to the capacity of a Jesuit education to foster individual gifts and talents as well as academic excellence.
Stonyhurst is based in a magnificent Grade I listed building within a secluded 1,000-acre estate, a rural setting in the beautiful Ribble Valley in the Northwest of England. Stonyhurst is home to one of the oldest museums in the English-speaking world and is steeped in centuries of Catholic history. Today the school offers a distinctive environment where pupils can gain an appreciation of culture and heritage.
Stonyhurst offers a broad and engaging curriculum in the Jesuit tradition, providing an excellent education encompassing both nationally and internationally regarded qualifications. The motto ‘Quant Je Puis’ (As Much as I Can) remains its overarching principle. As a Jesuit school, Stonyhurst provides a foundation for a life of purpose, with an education that nurtures individuality and encourages generosity.
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