Examinations Officer

The Orme Academy; Newcastle-under-Lyme; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Local Government Pension Scheme

37 days holiday rising to 39

Medicash Health & Wellbeing

DiscountForTeachers

Free Eye Tests

Cycle to work

Institute of Education access

Job summary

Shaw Education Trust is seeking a highly organised Examination Officer to coordinate all aspects of the school's examination processes, ensuring compliance with examination board requirements and smooth operation during assessment periods.

You will oversee invigilators, brief staff and pupils on examination arrangements, and provide administrative support to the Senior Leadership Team while maintaining confidentiality and accuracy.

Qualifications

• This role requires excellent organisational and communication skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining confidentiality and accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and administer all aspects of the school’s examination processes.
• Oversee invigilators and ensure they are briefed on examination arrangements and candidate requirements.
• Provide administrative support to the Senior Leadership Team and contribute to effective school operations.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Confidentiality

Team player

Job description

We are seeking a highly organised, proactive and detail-oriented Examination Officer to coordinate and administer all aspects of the school’s examination processes. Working under the direction of senior leaders, you will play a key role in ensuring that examinations run smoothly, efficiently and in accordance with examination board requirements.

You will oversee and support invigilators, ensuring they are fully briefed and aware of examination arrangements, candidate requirements and any special access arrangements. In addition, you will provide administrative support to the Senior Leadership Team, contributing to the effective management of the school’s operational activities.

This role would suit someone with excellent organisational and communication skills, a strong attention to detail, and the ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining confidentiality and accuracy. The successful candidate will be a reliable team player who can work independently, respond confidently to queries and help deliver a well‑organised and positive examination experience for pupils and staff. If you are an efficient administrator, who enjoys working with children and who takes pride in delivering high‑quality support and ensuring that processes run seamlessly, we would welcome your application.

We are rated “Good” by Ofsted and remain committed to building on this success as a team. This achievement reflects the dedication and hard work of our staff, students, and wider school community. We are incredibly proud of the progress we’ve made and are excited to continue providing a high‑quality, supportive learning environment where all our pupils can thrive.

The sole ethos for the school community is ‘Empowering Learners for Life’. Whilst we are committed to ensuring that every student makes excellent progress, this concept stretches well beyond academic performance. We firmly believe that every aspect of school should equip learners to be successful in all areas of their lives, both now and for their future. Indeed, every single decision or action taken improves the life chances of all our learners. This is underpinned by ensuring the Academy is a safe, nurturing and happy environment: put simply, The Orme Academy is a great place to learn and a great place to work.

This ethos applies equally to the staff. We believe in empowering our staff to be aspirational and effective leaders of learning and provide a good programme of CPD and induction to support those joining our vibrant community. This CPD includes being part of a large MAT, with its own Institute of Education (IoE) focused on the development of staff. The IoE provides access to wide range of network hubs, subject experts and access to best practice, as well as bespoke CPD opportunities. This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly professional and committed team of staff whilst also playing their part in the success and future development of our Academy.

AtShaw Education Trust, we believe every role has the power to transform a life.Whether you’re supporting behind the scenes, inspiring in the classroom, orleading with vision, you will be part of something truly meaningful.

Ourvalues— opportunity, integrity, community, and equity —guide everything wedo. Our vision is “Opening doors to the world through the power oflearning.” We bring this to life through our mission: workingtogether to inspire communities where every school is valued, every voicematters, and every learner thrives.

Weare a dynamic and growing family of primary, secondary, and special schools,proudly serving communities from Birmingham to Bury.

Ourpeople are our greatest asset, and we are deeply committed to their developmentthrough high-quality training, apprenticeships, talent development programmes,and research opportunities, we empower our staff to thrive as skilled,confident professionals. We champion wellbeing, value every voice, and foster aculture where you feel supported, motivated, and inspired to make a realdifference.

Youwill join a collaborative network of schools where shared expertise and astrong professional community drive success. Every academy within our Trust hasan equal voice, and every colleague plays a vital role in shaping tailoredlearning experiences that raise aspirations and build brighter futures.

Ifyou have the passion, dedication, and drive to help shape lives and createfutures filled with promise, we would love you to join our team.

Together,let’s make the remarkable happen.

Webelieve every child has the potential to be extraordinary.

Inour secondary schools, we pride ourselves on our innovative approach tocurriculum design, to ensure all our schools have breadth and ambition for allstudents, regardless of their starting points and barriers. Standard curriculummodels don’t always engage all students, so we constantly seek to innovate andprovide better opportunities to develop both knowledge and skills for life. Wewant our students to believe their curriculum is bold, exciting, purposeful,and ultimately leads to something meaningful for them. Some examples of ourinnovation include moving towards a trust wide approach to enrichment andcompetitions, to provide a world class enrichment programme and more opportunitiesfor essential skills like reading and cultural capital. We are also introducingvocational and technical pathways, which run through the normal schoolcurriculum but attract support from leading employers and universities todevelops work-readiness in our students, so that they can progress onto TLevels and apprenticeships.

ShawEducation Trust offer the following employee benefits with your Teaching orSupport Staff employment:

• An excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (SupportStaff) / Teachers Pension (Teaching Staff)
• Support Staff only based on working full time,all year - Generous holiday entitlement from your first day ofemployment (37 days holiday rising to 39 days after 5 years’service including Bank Holidays)
• Access to Medicash Health & Wellbeing Plan: Enjoyhealth services designed to support your well-being.
• Free DiscountForTeachers Scheme for all staff (Supportand Teaching), Exclusive discounts to save money with a wide selection ofdiscounts and exclusive offers from hundreds of the biggest brands.
• Free Eye Tests
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to our Institute ofEducation and fantastic opportunities to help you grow, contribute andflourish in your role and in the Trust.

Weknow our people are the key to our success and so we’re committed toensuring the employment experience at Shaw Education Trust is a rewardingone.

Colleagueswithin the Trust benefit from: Access to a full range of courses both in-house andprofessionally accredited. These courses include a variety of the NationalProfessional Qualifications and the Early Carer Teacher Programme delivered byShaw Education Trust as a delivery partner for Ambition Institute.

• Experiencedleadership and subject-specific support.
• Guidancefrom former HMIs and serving Ofsted Inspectors within the Trust.
• Accessto the Trust’s Institute of Education and SCITT.
• Opportunitiesto work with different schools within the Trust as a Professional Advocate.
• Participatingin peer reviews.
• Accessto a suite of online courses.
• Placementprojects within our family of schools.

Actual Salary: £24,539-£27,034

Working hours: 37 hours per week, term time only plus 8 days INSET (5 days will be in 'term time', 3 days are in the summer on exam results week)