Exams and Data Officer

Required for February/March 2025

Permanent, Part Time (full time hours during periods of examinations)

Grade E £27,269 - £28,624 pro-rata (actual salary £13,342 - £14,005)

Plus, LGPS Pension Scheme and generous paid holiday weeks


Annualised hours of 800 to be worked:

15 hours per week during non-exam times

37 hours per week during periods of examinations

40 weeks per annum (term-time, plus 2 weeks)

To be paid as an average of 20 hours per week across the year


Plymouth CAST are seeking an Examinations and Data Officer to join Notre Dame and St Boniface’s College from February/March.  The postholder will be responsible for the effective running of external and internal examinations and assessments within Notre Dame and St Boniface’s College in collaboration with the Exams and Data Manager and Senior Leadership Team. The postholder will also be responsible for student data and assessment systems to support and drive school improvement through effective use of our MI system (SIMS). 


The successful candidate must have excellent numeracy, literacy and communication skills, along with good analytical and reasoning skills to deliver a successful exam season and to support leaders and teaching staff to use data and assessment to drive progress within teaching and learning.  


The postholder will enjoy working with a variety of people, have strong IT literacy, feeling at ease using a range of different IT packages, to include google, word, excel, databases, web-based packages and SIMS and must have excellent organisation and time management skills.  


The postholder will manage the invigilation team during periods of examinations.  


This post requires flexible working to support the needs of the department. The postholder will be required to work 15 hours per week during normal school terms, increasing to 37 during 8 weeks of exam periods. This will be for 2 weeks in November, 1 week in March and 5 weeks in May/June each year. There may be a need for more hours to support other mock exams and this would be paid in addition to the salary detailed above as required. There is also a requirement to work during the school closedown period in August to prepare for and deliver our public examination results days. The role involves working across 2 secondary schools located close to each other with shared responsibility with other members of the exams team during the exams season.

Applications should be submitted using the TES website by the closing date stated below.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy sooner than the published date should we receive a sufficient volume of quality applications.


Closing date: Midnight, Sunday 2nd February 2025


Interviews: February 2025