Exams Administrator, West Midlands
£15 - £20 per hour
Posted 2 weeks ago | ref: 277784
Apply nowExams Administrator – Wolverhampton
Full time hours (37hrs per week Monday to Friday) – Temporary on-going likely until June 2024
Exams Administrators play a crucial role in educational institutions, ensuring the smooth execution of examination processes.
The role:
The Exams Administrator is responsible for all aspects of examination administration, both individually and as part of a team. They collaborate with various stakeholders, including awarding body contacts, examiners, senior management, teaching staff, students, and parents.
The role involves managing examination and assessment processes for a wide variety of qualification areas. These qualifications may include Functional Skills, ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), HE (Higher Education), City & Guilds, and other vocational qualifications (e.g., electricians, health and social care, hair/beauty therapists).
Responsibilities:
- Understanding Regulations: The Exams Administrator reads, interprets, and executes each awarding body’s regulations and procedures (typically 6-10 different bodies).
- Disseminating Information: They share processed information with teaching staff and colleagues.
- Invigilator Training: The administrator trains, briefs, and monitors invigilators to ensure compliance with regulations.
- Data Management: Maintaining accurate records, they handle exam registrations, entries, resits, and enrolment changes.
- Exam Day Planning: This includes booking rooms, arranging invigilators, implementing access arrangements, creating seating plans, and notifying students of timetables and regulations.
- Exam Sessions Management: Ensuring compliance during exams, handling inspections, reporting incidents (e.g., malpractice), assessing special consideration cases, and managing applications.
- IT Proficiency: Proficiently using IT tools (e.g., MS Office, EBS, awarding body websites) to manage data.
- Results Processing: Accurately entering results data into the management information system (MIS) within deadlines.
Have you got what it takes?
- Experience within Exam Administration/ Administrator roles
- Experience with data management/ data processing
- Experience managing diaries/ booking rooms etc
- Fast Learner and ability to work in a fast paced environment
If this sounds like you or something you could be interested in; Hit apply now to speak with one of the consultants!
Protocol are proud to be Disability Confident Committed. We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process should you need it, please let us know
About Protocol
Protocol are the specialist full-service recruiter dedicated to education, training and skills. People are at the heart of everything we do. We place people first. We’re more than a recruitment agency – we pride ourselves on our ongoing support and aftercare delivered by our expert team, and all our candidates benefit from free access to our exclusive online CPD portal, Learning Zone. Whatever your career goals, we’ve got the right role for you. With a wide range of temporary and permanent positions available, from lecturing and training jobs
The legal bit…
Protocol National ltd trading as Protocol are acting as an employment business for this position. If you are successful, Protocol is required to see evidence of your Right to Work in the UK; in addition to you applying for an enhanced DBS Certificate should you not already hold a suitable certificate registered on the DBS Update Service. The position is subject to agreement to Terms and Conditions and suitable application and reference process. As a result of the volume of applications we are currently receiving we regret that we may be unable to respond with individual feedback. If we have not contacted you within two weeks of your application being received then regretfully your application will not be taken forward on this occasion.
