Deputy Exams Officer

USP are looking for an organised and efficient candidate providing crucial support for seamless exam administration. Detail-oriented with excellent communication skills. Ensuring a smooth testing experience for all students.

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Job Details

We are seeking an organised and proactive Deputy Exam Officer to assist the Exam Officer in managing all administrative processes related to examinations. This role includes overseeing vocational qualifications, supporting exam entry processes, organising invigilators, and handling post-results inquiries. You will also deputize for the Exams Officer in their absence, ensuring smooth operations and supporting students, staff, and parents with exam-related matters.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Manage student registrations and coordinate entries for external assessments.
  • Support exam entries, including re-sits, and assist with distribution of results.
  • Lead exam planning and delivery on campus under the guidance of the Examinations Officer.
  • Arrange invigilator schedules and provide necessary information for exam sessions.
  • Respond to inquiries from students, parents, and awarding bodies
  • Participate in safeguarding, equality, health and safety, and college values initiatives.
  • Promote student welfare and safety in accordance with college policies.
  • Occasionally travel across campuses
  • Engage in college-wide activities and contribute to a collaborative environment.
  • Job Requirements:
  • At least a level 2 in Maths & English
  • Worked within a busy customer focused environment
  • Competent use of database systems to record, analyse data & provide reports

The right candidate will have:

  • High standards of communication and interpersonal skills.
  • The ability to work as a team.
  • A strong attention to detail.
  • The ability to work towards deadlines.
  • Highly motivated and enthusiastic.
  • Excellent attendance and punctuality.
  • Experience innovating to deliver the curriculum

Why choose us?

Our strategy is to create a Career Focused, Digital Learning environment, ensuring that the learner experience and our relationship within our community, local and regional employers, are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be selected as finalists for the AoC Beacon awards for effective use of digital Technology in FE. Providing a high achieving, focused learning environment allowing our students to achieve the grades they need for higher educations, or the skills and aptitude required to secure a suitable role in their chosen career. Our college is set in the leafy suburbs of Essex, with easy access to surrounding areas and amenities, we are based in a well-connected location both by road and rail.

What we offer:

* subject to terms & conditions

This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which 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.  It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Self-declaration is subject to Ministry of Justice guidance on the disclosure of criminal records, further information can be found on GOV UK

USP College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, we therefore expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service, and any other checks that the role requires to ascertain suitability for working with children and/or vulnerable adults, which may include online searches.

We will hold and process any personal data, including sensitive (special category) personal data, relating to you in accordance with our legal obligations, in the manner set out in the Privacy Notice for staff and in accordance with our Data Protection Policy, which is set out on the College’s website, found here. You should familiarise yourself with our Data Protection Policy (and all other subsidiary policies to it) and comply with them at all times. Neither the Privacy Notice for Staff nor those policies form a part of your contract of employment.