Examinations Officer
Downham Market Academy
Norfolk
- Expiring soon
- Quick apply
- Salary:
- NJC Scale 12-17 £26421.00- £28770.00 (Pro rata)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Immediate start
- Apply by:
- 13 September 2024
Job overview
Examinations Officer
NJC Scale 12-17 £26421.00- £28770.00 (Pro rata)
37 hours per week, 40 weeks per year - You must be available to work during exam results periods in August
Having established a very successful Examinations team, our Exams Officer has taken on a new role within the school resulting in this vacancy. If you are an experienced Exams Officer looking for a new challenge or are a highly competent administrator who is seeking a career change, this could be the role for you. The Exams Officer is an integral role in the school with a varied and fulfilling portfolio of responsibilities running throughout the academic year and part of the summer. Excellent interpersonal skills are essential as you will communicate with school staff, students and parents/carers as well as officials from examination boards and the JCQ. Full training and support will be provided along with a range of benefits for staff wellbeing including:
Closing date: 13th September 2024
Interview date: TBC
What can ELA offer you?
ELA offer a sector leading staff benefits offer alongside bespoke, high quality CPD programmes, cross-trust events, and exceptional opportunities for career development within our innovative family of schools.
ELA staff benefits include:
Reduced contact time to enable professional development;
EAP with access to counselling & physiotherapy;
Health care cash plan;
Paid annual family day;
Extensive discount club access;
Cycle to work & electric car lease schemes;
Enhanced parental leave;
Flexible work practices;
Laptop & mobile phone payment plans;
Ticket ballots for high profile events;
Generous annual leave allowance for support staff;
Discounted gym membership for all staff.
Visits to the school prior to applying are warmly welcomed, as are informal conversations about the role. Please contact Kate Coupland by email: kcoupland@dma.tela.org.uk
Our Trust is committed to equal opportunities, to safeguarding and the promotion of the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff are expected to share this commitment and undergo the appropriate checks. All positions within the Trust are subject to enhanced DBS checks and satisfactory references. Only applications submitted on using the application form will be accepted. We do not accept applications by CV. Downham Market Academy Safeguarding Policy: https://dma.tela.org.uk/safeguarding-policy
All shortlisted applicants should expect to be called for interview no more than 5 working days after the closing date. If you have not heard from us by then you can expect your application to be unsuccessful. We do anticipate strong interest in this role and if we receive sufficient applications prior to the closing date, the job advert will be closed early and interviews arranged so please do consider submitting your application ahead of the published deadline.
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About Downham Market Academy
About Downham Market Academy
Graded as "Good" in all areas by Ofsted in April 2022 - inspectors highlighted the strong ethos and curriculum at the school.
- Co-educational, 11-18 mixed comprehensive with approximately 1100 students, including 100 in the Sixth Form in the town of Downham Market, Norfolk.
- Now part of The Eastern Learning Alliance, a visionary and unique multi academy trust where there is a strong sense of community and collaboration.
- Our students really want to learn and are genuinely delightful young people to spend time with.
- We offer an exceptional CPD programme; relocation packages; reduced timetables and an exciting creative environment within which to work.
- Our staff retention rate is excellent as we offer an exceptional environment within which to thrive and enjoy teaching.
- As well as a stimulating curriculum for all students, staff are committed to offering a large number of extracurricular activities.
Values and vision
- Downham Market Academy goes to great lengths to ensure that its pupils show respect and understanding towards each other and their school.
- There is a community-agreed set of basic principles that all students and staff are expected to follow.
- These principles include: respect for their environment; a willingness to learn; acting as role models for the people around them; and being polite and courteous to all.
About Downham Market
- Downham Market is a market town set in beautiful Norfolk, with excellent fast train links to the cultural centres of both Cambridge (33 minutes) and London (1 hour 27 minutes).
- Housing is relatively inexpensive and the area boasts many opportunities for sport and leisure activities.
- Beautiful North Norfolk, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, is only around 45 minutes away and is home to much of The Broads National Park, Britain's largest protected wetland. The area is great for walking and is a haven for wildlife and birds. North Norfolk is also home to unspoilt, award-winning beaches; market towns and villages boasting eateries, shops and artisans as well as museums, stately homes and places of cultural and historical interest.
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