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Job Title:   Exams Officer (No Experience
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Organisation:
British Council

Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda

About US:

The British Council
is the UK’s international organisation for educational opportunities and
cultural relations. We create international opportunities for the people of the
UK and other countries and build trust between them worldwide. British Council
Uganda is based in Kampala and offers a full range of programmes including
examinations, project management on behalf of other donors, and its own grant
funded projects. British Council has operated in Uganda since 1952 and its aim
is to build cultural and educational relations between Uganda and the UK.  

Job Summary:  The Exams Officer is responsible for the delivery of our
examinations in Kampala. Principal areas of responsibility include operational
delivery, compliance with quality/security standards and ensuring that all
exams are processed according to the British Council’s quality and compliance
guidelines.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

Exams delivery: Processing exams papers:

• Understands the importance of keeping
  exams materials secure before, during and after the exam day and of the
  following systems which protect self and the colleagues from unfair
  accusations of malpractice.
• Maintain quality and compliance
  requirements stipulated by UK exam bodies.
• Understands the general principles of
  secure unpacking, packing counting, logging and shredding of materials.
• Able to use different stock management
  processes to ensure exams secure materials and equipment can be tracked
  internally and externally.
• Understand and effectively uphold the
  audit criterion that ensures most of the above.

Contribution to general effective management of Exams
Business: Managing individuals
or teams:

• Post will require exams officer be able
  to set clear goals for individuals (exam venue staff) and monitor
  performance against goals and job standards using the British Council
  performance management process; produce a job plan and write comprehensive
  performance evaluation for individuals.
• Ensure that work is allocated amongst
  team members fairly and efficiently. Is able to motivate individuals/ the
  team, particularly those whose roles include routine tasks by setting them
  small projects as part of their performance deliverables or arranging for
  job rotations.
• Able to identify poor performance issues
  and address with support and guidance from manager.
• Recruiting and selecting venue staff including
  examiners, markers, invigilators etc. Ensuring a sufficient number of
  effectively trained staff is available for each test day administration.
  Understands basic recruitment and selection procedures and able to apply
  them to venue staff recruitment process with manager guidance.
• Understand and be able to implement the
  particular training and monitoring needs of venue staff as and when
  required.

Contribute to effective, compliant financial processes
and accurate financial information

• Ability to prepare reconciliations for
  specific processes for checking by the Exams Manager.
• Understand basic ‘purchase to pay’ and
  ‘sales process’ including vendor or business partner creation, raise goods
  receipts, approve PO’s and sales orders on time and understand the wider
  importance of this. Understand how to process invoices and credit notes.
• Able to plan/forecast/monitor/manage
  simple budgets.
• Able to support the preparation of cash
  flow forecast and accruals by providing relevant information for their
  particular area of responsibility.
• Tasked with preparing and/ or checking
  examiner/marker/invigilator payment. Understands the principles of good
  financial practice.   

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant for the British Council
  Exams Officer job placement should possess a Business Management
  qualification from a recognized university.
• Existing rights to live and work in
  Uganda.
• Appropriate police check required.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in
  Business administration.
• Knowledge and experience in Financial
  planning and budget monitoring.
• Knowledge and experience in Exams
  delivery.
• Knowledge and experience in Exams
  process management.

How to Apply:

All suitably
qualified and interested candidates who so desire to join the British Council
in the aforementioned capacity should endeavor to Apply Online by Clicking on
the link below. Please further review job requirements and if competent,
proceed with the online application.

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Deadline: 22^nd May 2019

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