Exam Invigilator

You will support the Exams Officer with the day-to-day operation of examination venues and other examination processes, with activities including:

• Assisting with setting-up examination venues by laying out stationery, equipment and examination papers
• Assisting candidates prior to the start of examinations
• Ensuring that candidates do not talk once inside examination venues
• Invigilating during examinations, dealing with queries raised by candidates and dealing with irregularities
• Checking attendance during examinations
• Recording details of late arrivals
• Escorting candidates from venues during the examinations and supervising candidates outside examination venues
• Collecting and collating scripts at the end of the examination
• Assisting with the preparation of script envelopes
• Supervising candidates leaving examination venues, ensuring that candidates do not remove equipment or stationery from the venue without authorisation and that they leave venues in an orderly and quiet manner
• Assisting with the packing of examination papers, stationery and equipment before examinations, and the delivery to and from venues as appropriate
• Assisting with the preparation of seating plans

Qualifications & Experience

For this role, you will need:

• Access to an email account so invigilation schedules can be arranged with the Examinations Officer
• A positive interest in young people and their education
• The ability to be flexible
• Accuracy and a high level of attention to detail
• Confident communication skills
• A firm but fair attitude
• The ability to work well under pressure
• Physical fitness appropriate to tasks required (exam papers can be heavy in bulk, and there is a lot of walking involved)

Professional Development & Benefits

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.

In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes our Harris Allowance for teachers on MPS/UPS, a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.

About Us

If you are looking for a diverse school with clear & effective behaviour policies & systems, a visible & supportive leadership team, useful but not onerous CPD, & frequent opportunities for promotion, then we are the school for you. We believe that our students need great outcomes to open doors that will help them make the best of their lives. Our students behave well, & so they achieve well. This is a product of our excellent behaviour systems. We have 6 non-teaching Heads of Year who support behaviour & welfare & run a fully centralised detention system. Exemplary behaviour can only be achieved through a highly visible Senior Leadership team, who are constantly touring the Academy. CPD is bespoke, first & foremost in the subject & grounded in tried & tested methods of effective teaching such as modelling, questioning, literacy, practice & consolidation. As part of our CPD offer, we have access to the world leading Harris NPQ training programmes for leaders. We believe the best approach to workload & wellbeing is to run a highly effective school with gives people purpose & avoids unnecessary work. Our sizeable department teams mean that despite our excellent retention rates, opportunities for promotion are frequent & exciting. I really hope that you’ll be joining our team. Our four values of endeavour, kindness, respect & responsibility are at the heart of everything we do.

HASN is an extremely popular 11-19 academy. We have 180 students in each year group, a size that enables us to know what each of our students need. We deliver a broad & challenging curriculum to all our students in a calm & well-ordered environment. We have high expectations of all members of the school community. This is reflected in our consistently high student performance at GCSE, progression to post 16 study at our sixth form & then on to some of the best universities in the country. Last year 188 of our year 11 students chose to remain with us for the sixth form.

Boasting one of the most unique school buildings in the country Harris Academy, Clocktower perfectly blends classic British architecture with modern contemporary design. With our main building built newly in 2007 HASN is a modern Academy that boasts open plan corridors & skylight panels across the main building. The classic Stanley building dating back to 1907 provides charm & a history that compliments the new stylings of the main building & provides a reminder of the scholarly traditional values that a Harris Academy South Norwood education is built upon. We are very fortunate to have excellent transport links to central London, some trains get to London Bridge in 11 minute, & just four minutes on the train from East Croydon. The Academy is a six-minute walk from Norwood Junction train station.