Location
Barking Abbey School, Barking, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

Hours
35 hours per week, Term Time Only plus 10 additional days

Salary
Scale 6 (Point 18 – £35,520 to Point 20 – £36,585 Full time) Prorated salary range is approximately £31,337 – £32,276 depending on experience, weeks per year and continuous service. Based on working 35 hours per week, Term Time plus 10 days.

About the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Barking Abbey School for an Exams and Data Officer to join our growing exams team due to school expansion. This role is integral to the smooth daily operation of the school and offers a hardworking, highly skilled, and ambitious administrator great opportunities for growth and development. You will gain specialist knowledge and skills around examination processes and procedures in schools.

The role is varied and at times fast paced, enabling the successful candidate to develop skills and specialisms with software, data management, and legislation regulations relating to examinations.

Barking Abbey is a heavily over-subscribed dual campus secondary school with a well-deserved reputation for academic excellence and a supportive professional environment. The school is located less than 10 minutes walk from Upney tube and 15 minutes from Barking mainline station.

We celebrate diversity and positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. If you are interested in making a difference in young people’s lives, whatever your background, please apply.

In return we offer a supportive and encouraging staff team, a wide range of CPD opportunities within and beyond school, a school which understands the importance of staff well-being and workload management, a positive ethos with excellent behaviour reinforced by highly visible senior leadership and centralised behaviour systems, and a professional, friendly working environment.

Experience
- Strong background and experience in administration.

About you
- A can do and positive attitude.
- Ability to prioritise and plan workload effectively.
- Innovative problem-solving skills.
- Commitment to Barking Abbey’s high expectations and ethos.
- Desire to work collaboratively and contribute to the progress of a growing professional service department.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to manage, manipulate, and interpret data.
- Strong ICT skills with a willingness to learn and master new software.
- Flexibility to work varied hours and locations, particularly during busy exam periods.

Qualifications
- Not explicitly stated, but willingness to learn and develop specialist knowledge in examination processes is essential.