Examinations Officer
Blackpool Sixth Form College
Blackpool
- £21,181 - £22,699 per year
- New
- Salary:
- Sixth Form College Pay Scale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 22 January 2025
Job overview
This is a permanent, 36.25 hour full time post and is staff college term time only, plus 10 additional days.
At Blackpool Sixth College, an outstanding provider of 16-19 education, we are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Examinations Officer to join our team. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in ensuring the smooth and efficient delivery of examinations within our thriving and highly successful college community.
This is an exciting time to join us, as qualifications, examinations, and assessments are evolving rapidly, and advancing technology is reshaping how exams are delivered. Our challenge is to stay ahead of these changes, embracing fresh and innovative solutions to ensure we continue providing exceptional service to our students and staff.
Experience of working in an examinations department would be advantageous, but not essential, as training would be provided to the successful candidate.
A day in Examinations could see you:
- communicating with many stakeholders including students, college-wide staff, parents/carers and awarding bodies whilst delivering a high-quality examinations service across the college,
- assisting with the creation of examination entries and qualification registrations,
- overseeing the operational arrangements of an exam session, including organisation of exam papers, managing students arriving, supporting invigilators preparing for an exam, sending scripts to the awarding body,
- supervising the receipt of coursework from curriculum departments for submission to awarding bodies.
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About Blackpool Sixth Form College
- Blackpool Sixth Form College
- Blackpool Old Road, Blackpool
- Lancashire
- FY3 7LR
- United Kingdom
We are a high-achieving sixth form, giving our students an excellent springboard to success. We educate the whole student, providing all with excellent teaching and opportunities for growth and personal development. We are recognised by Ofsted as an outstanding sixth form. We are relatively small in size, with just over 2000 students and approximately 200 staff. This means that we are a close and caring community.
We serve the whole Fylde Coast area, which includes Poulton-le-Fylde and Lytham St Annes, as well as Blackpool and the surrounding towns and villages. Blackpool Sixth is a friendly, positive and supportive place to work and is rated Grade One: Outstanding by Ofsted (2009). In 2009, we became one of the first organisations in the country to be awarded the Investors in People Gold Award. Staff are committed to the needs and aspirations of our students and supported by an extensive programme of staff development.
Staff are highly committed to the needs and aspirations of our students. The continued growth in student numbers and planned curriculum developments has enabled the sixth form to invest in new staff and new buildings. The college is designated as a Teaching School in partnership with Hodgson Academy and it's a really exciting time to be part of Blackpool Sixth.
All new staff are offered a thorough induction program; this is supplemented for Newly Qualified Teachers with a comprehensive series of training sessions throughout the academic year. All new staff are allocated a mentor in their probationary year, they are here to offer support and guidance in your new role.It's not just teachers that we develop, both teaching and support staff are involved in an annual programme of staff development, supported by individual performance management reviews and training and development plans.
On top of the internal opportunities staff now also benefit from a wider programme of Continuing Professional Development events which come from being part of the Teaching School Alliance, these include nationally accredited programmes.
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