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Exams Manager

Oldham College • Full-time • Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom • £31,920 - £34,040 / year • 5d ago

Examinations Manager

Department: Data, Funding & Exams

Contract: Full time, Permanent

Location: Oldham College

Join Oldham College – Where Opportunity Creates Success

At Oldham College, we’re passionate about helping every learner achieve their full potential. Our teams play a key part in this mission – and right now, we’re looking for an experienced and motivated Examinations Manager to lead our busy Exams team.

This is an exciting opportunity for a confident, organised professional who thrives under pressure and takes pride in delivering excellence.

The Role

As Examinations Manager, you’ll take the lead on all aspects of our examinations process – from planning and coordination to ensuring full compliance with awarding body regulations.

You’ll:

Manage and support the Exams Team and our invigilators, developing their skills and performance.
Oversee exam timetables, entries, registrations, and results to ensure everything runs smoothly and on time.
Liaise with awarding bodies, curriculum teams, and support staff to maintain high standards of accuracy and communication.
Manage the examinations budget, monitor expenditure, and ensure value for money.
Lead on JCQ compliance, data integrity, and continuous improvement across all exam processes.

In short, you’ll be the driving force behind a professional, compliant, and student-centred examinations service.

About You

You’ll bring:

A relevant Level 3 qualification (Level 4 or equivalent desirable).
Supervisory experience in an exams or administrative environment.
Strong organisational skills and attention to detail – especially under pressure during peak periods.
Experience managing people and processes effectively.
Excellent IT and data-handling skills, including use of spreadsheets and databases.
Knowledge of JCQ and awarding body regulations.

You’ll be a proactive problem solver who thrives on structure and deadlines, with a flexible and supportive approach to teamwork.

If you’re ready to lead a team that plays a vital role in shaping learner outcomes, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today and be part of our mission to create brighter futures.

Joining our Journey:

When you join our college, not only will you benefit from an annual reviewed salary but have access to numerous benefits and facilities:

Generous Pension Scheme
Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform
Very generous holiday entitlement
Employee Assistance Scheme
Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provision
Staff Development days/week (Jan, July, Aug)
Free confidential counselling service
Staff recognition awards
Car Scheme
Subsidised car parking
On-site Day Nursery
On-site hair and beauty salon

Oldham College is a great career choice for ambitious professionals. With one of the best apprenticeship programmes in the region, excellent 16-18 results and truly outstanding GCSE English results, we are already a high performer.

But we want to deliver much more than this. Our ambition is to be “The Best Place to Learn and Work” and we have a clear Strategic Plan which sets out what this means and what we will do to deliver it. We will keep on improving and innovating, and we are investing in new provision, new facilities, and new technology; including our state-of-the-art clinical simulation suite.

We expect a lot from you, so we want ambitious, open minded candidates, who are ready to give their best. But we give a lot in return, from training to pensions, our own benefits package, and one of the best and most helpful group of colleagues you could ever wish to meet.

The role will require you to embed and work to the college’s values; working with Integrity, having Ambition to help our learners succeed and being Inclusive to learners and colleagues alike.

At Oldham College, our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We encourage everyone to join us, as we create a workforce that is as diverse as our wonderful student community. We do monitor responses to our diversity questions in our application, to ensure that we can continue to build a workforce that is representative of the community that we serve.

We understand that not everyone works to the same timetable, and offer a range of flexible working options, including flexible start and finish times, part-time, term-time only or hybrid options, where the role permits.

We will do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, contact our HR team who will be happy to advise.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable laws, a pre-employment screening could include, employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the role.

Oldham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Any appointments will be subject to enhanced DBS checks and a check of the DfE Barred List.

Further details including a Person Specification are included within the attached Job Description.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation Act 1974. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children and vulnerable adults.

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