Exams Officer - Dr Challoner’s High School
Location: Little Chalfont
Overview
We are seeking to appoint a caring and meticulous Exams Officer to play a pivotal and very satisfying role in the life of our school. This is a key operational post, central to ensuring the integrity, efficiency, and smooth delivery of all internal and external examinations.
This is an ideal opportunity to play a central role in our warm and strong community, providing the very best exams support and experience to our students and great service for our staff and parents.
Term time only: Yes
Salary type: Bucks pay
Salary details: Pay range 6 from £36,495 - £39,876 (FTE)
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 30 hours (4 days) or 37 hours (5 days) per week, 41 weeks/year (term time plus 3 weeks, mainly in August)
Closing date: Noon on 23rd February 2026
Interview date: Thursday 26th February
About us
Dr Challoner's High School is a leading selective state grammar school for girls, with a strong academic tradition and an ambitious outlook for the future. The school has a broad vision for education and is characterised by a highly purposeful pursuit of personal bests with a keen sense of fun bubbling under the surface. Challoner’s girls are articulate, courteous, sparky, hard-working and achieve highly in all areas. The school is graded Outstanding by Ofsted and was rated as ‘Leading’ in all areas by Challenge Partners.
Within the Challoner’s High community, you will experience:
- A positive place to work with excellent facilities and IT resources and lots of purposeful and community-minded people around you (unlike working from home!)
- Use of staff gym; free staff yoga and fitness classes on site; staff discounts at local shops and restaurants in Little Chalfont, free flu jabs, some free food, local theatres discounts when available, two-week October half term. Membership of Local Government Pension Scheme
- Qualified daughters of staff are given priority in the schools over subscription criteria after 2 or more years’ service. Also, excellent train links to London (on the Metropolitan line)
The best advert however for working at Challoner’s High will always be our hugely rewarding students
Website: Dr Challoner's High School | Grammar School for Girls
About the role
You will be responsible for:
- The end-to-end administration and management of all exams across the school
- Ensuring strict adherence to JCQ and awarding body regulations
- Line managing the experienced Assistant Exams Officer and a team of invigilators
- Managing expenditure, and maintaining consistency and compliance in all examination procedures
Actual Salary 30 Hours: £26,745.30 - £29,223.06
Actual Salary 37 Hours: £32,985.87 - £36,041.77
Due to the experience of the team, our use of Exams Assist and a supportive SLT it would be your choice of working either 4 or 5 days per week (5 days/week is essential during the summer exams).
Please see job description for more details
About you
The successful candidate will be:
- Affable, kind and highly organise
- Strong communication skills,
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to work highly accurately
- Plan ahead and problem-solve under pressure
Other information
An information pack is available from the Vacancies section of the school website or from [email protected]
We welcome applications from all sections of the community and those interested in job-sharing. Dr Challoner’s High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
A copy of our privacy notice for applicants can be found here.
Please refer to our website where you can view our Child Protection and Safeguarding, and Safer Recruitment Policies. This is a regulated activity.
Policies; all of our polices are available at www.challonershigh.com.
The successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure and Section 128 check, where applicable.
We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date.
Disclosure of Criminal Records
As a school, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. This means that certain criminal convictions and cautions, including some that are spent, must be declared when applying to work with children.
If you are shortlisted for interview, you will be required to disclose:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. not filtered) under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975, as amended in 2020
Failure to disclose relevant information may result in withdrawal of an offer or dismissal if appointed.
