Exams Manager (37 hours per week, permanent)

onlyFE; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

onlyFE is seeking an Exams Manager to lead the college's examinations and assessment functions, ensuring a compliant, accurate and customer-focused service for internal stakeholders and external bodies.

You will drive planning, data integrity, and continuous improvement across the exams cycle, managing the Exams team, coordinating with curriculum and support services, and upholding JCQ regulations and awarding-body requirements.

Qualifications

• Leadership and strategic oversight of examinations and assessment functions
• Strong organisational skills, autonomy, and initiative
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication abilities
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work under tight deadlines
• Commitment to compliance with JCQ regulations and awarding-body requirements
• Experience leading a team and improving processes across the exams cycle

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the college's examination and assessment function
• Ensure examinations are administered accurately and in compliance with regulations
• Plan, coordinate, and improve all examinations-related activities
• Provide operational leadership and resource management for the Exams team
• Oversee data integrity, security, and reporting for examinations
• Engage with curriculum, support services, and external partners to ensure service quality
• Embed the college values of Respect, Integrity, Collaboration, Compassion and Ambition

Job description

As Exams Manager within the Quality & Standards team, you will be required to demonstrate strong leadership, strategic oversight, and a high level of autonomy, self-motivation, organisational skills, and initiative. The focus of the role is to lead and manage the college's examination’s function, ensuring the delivery of a professional, customer-focused, and compliant service to internal stakeholders and external organisations, including Awarding Bodies and regulatory authorities.

You will lead and manage the college's examinations and assessment function, ensuring that all external and internal examinations are administered efficiently, accurately and in accordance with awarding-body regulations, JCQ requirements and college policies.

You will have overall responsibility for the planning, coordination, management, and continuous improvement of all examinations-related activities and processes across the college, ensuring that key deadlines are met and awarding body regulations are adhered to at all times.

The role requires you to provide operational leadership and management of the Exams team, ensuring resources are effectively deployed to meet business demands and deliver high levels of service. You will oversee workload planning, performance management, staff development, and the implementation of efficient and effective working practices.

Working closely with curriculum, support services, senior leaders, and external partners, you will ensure the integrity, accuracy, and security of examinations data and processes. You will be responsible for producing, analysing, and presenting management information reports, using data to inform decision-making, identify trends, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

It is essential that you possess excellent interpersonal, leadership, and communication skills, with the confidence and authority to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels across the college and with external organisations. You will demonstrate the ability to manage competing priorities, work under pressure to tight deadlines within the college's business cycle, and maintain the highest standards of accuracy, confidentiality, and information security.

You will lead and manage the Exams team to ensure the successful delivery of all examination and assessment activities throughout the academic year, promoting a culture of excellence, accountability, compliance, and continuous improvement.

The role will require you to embed the college’s values; Respect, Integrity, Collaboration, Compassion and Ambition.