Exams Administrator

Location: Newcastle
Salary: £23,570 - £24,201 per annum
Closing Date: 28/10/2024 23:59
Terms and Conditions: 37 hours, 2 FTE, , Permanent
Reference: GS1050170
Expiry Date: 28/10/2024 23:59

Are you a highly organised and detail-oriented individual with a passion for data accuracy, educational excellence and admin support? Join our dynamic Exams Office for an exciting opportunity!

We encourage applications from candidates with strong administrative skills, preferably with experience in further education or school settings, though all backgrounds are welcome.

As a vital member of our dedicated team, you will play a key role in providing effective support within the Exams Office. This includes assisting various colleagues and students while managing a wide range of administrative processes for numerous awarding organisations, utilising different data systems.

Your responsibilities will encompass exams-related tasks such as preparing exam timetables, creating seating plans, receiving and securely storing confidential exam materials, managing learner registrations and results, issuing exam certificates, and performing other relevant duties.

NCG is a national college group, offering further and higher education across our seven colleges. Our mission is to ‘enable social mobility and economic prosperity through exceptional education’ and we exist to create life-changing opportunities for individuals that strengthen the prosperity of their local communities.

Through ambitious teaching, innovative courses and outstanding learning environments, we aim to inspire excellence, spark curiosity and make a real impact on our learners and communities, with a vision to become the UK’s leading college group, recognised for our local impact, national reach and influence.

Together, our colleges and partners are creating the workforce of the future by enabling all people, regardless of their background, to develop the skills that our local communities need to be successful and sustained.

We’re made up of seven colleges and a central professional services team which supports our entire college network. Whatever your role, you’ll be an important part of helping us to achieve our goals, realise our vision and most importantly, support learners across our colleges to succeed.

We are committed to creating inclusive communities of excellent learning and teaching which benefit from sharing best practice developed across the seven learning organisations which are NCG.

Our people are at the heart of NCG and by joining our organisation, you will be valued, empowered and will benefit from being part of a national network of colleagues who you will be able to work and collaborate with, learn from and share your knowledge.

NCG is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment.

At NCG, our values are not just about what we do, but also about how we do things.

Our values underpin the culture and beliefs of our organisation, we expect all our staff to demonstrate behaviours in line with our core values.

1. Being both inclusive and diverse

2. Trusting and respecting our communities

3. Taking ownership whilst working collaboratively

4. Inspiring excellence and curiosity.

NCG offers an excellent benefits package, including generous holiday entitlement, access to the Teachers’ pension scheme (for teaching posts) or Local Government pension scheme (non-teaching posts), company sick pay, a cycle to work scheme and much more.

NCG seeks to promote and maintain an equal, diverse, inclusive and supportive environment for work and study that assists all members of our communities to reach their full potential. We are committed to achieving a truly representative workforce and therefore welcome applications from across the national and regional communities that we work with and serve.

To view Job Description, Person Specification and NCG Values Pack please click the document attachment at the bottom of this advert. No agency applications will be accepted.

NCG reserve the right to close the vacancy early.