Dame Alice Owen's School
Hertfordshire
Salary:
Hourly pay of £12.21 (plus holiday pay)
Job type:
Part Time, Casual
Apply by:
16 October 2025
Job overview
Zero-hour contract | Available to work at least 3 days a week during busy exam periods, especially in January, May and June.
The Governing Body of this highly successful, partially selective, mixed school invites applications for Exams Invigilators to join our busy Exams team. Exams Invigilators play a crucial role in upholding the integrity and security of exams and the assessment process, and must conduct exams in accordance with all the relevant rules and regulations. They play a big role in supporting students with special exam access arrangements.
Reporting to the Exams Officer and the Assistant Exams Officer, successful candidates would be joining a team of existing invigilators headed up by a number of experienced lead invigilators.
If successful, you would be responsible for the smooth running of the exams taking place in your exam room and dealing with any issues as and when they arise. This may be in a large main exam room working as part of a big team and/or in a small room on your own once you have built up sufficient experience.
Experience is not necessary to start with, as full training will be provided.
To arrange a tour or informal discussion about this position, please contact Leigh Carpenter, Exams Officer, via
Please download our application form from
our website
to make your application. Please note that applications cannot be considered unless the application is completed in full. We are not able to accept CVs for any posts based in the school.
Closing date: 9am on Thursday 16 October 2025.
Interview date: Thursday 23 October 2025.
We reserve the right to make an appointment before the closing date, so early applications are encouraged.
The post you are applying for is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and applicants will be required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands and warnings that are not "protected" (as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service disclosure check.
Attached documents
Invigilator Candidate Pack - October
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About Dame Alice Owen's School
Dame Alice Owen's School
Dugdale Hill Lane, Potters Bar
Hertfordshire
EN6 2DU
United Kingdom
HEADTEACHER'S WELCOME
Thank you for your interest in applying to Dame Alice Owen's School. Though much of the information we have about our school is available on our website, we know you are busy so have put some key information here to help you understand who we are and what we do.
Our school was founded over 400 years ago by Dame Alice Owen, a remarkable philanthropist with an unusually modern vision for education. She established the first school in Islington and, as demand outstripped space, it moved to its current setting, in the Hertfordshire countryside, in 1976.
Today, Owen's is an exciting place to work where "staff overwhelmingly feel well cared for" and behaviour is "exemplary." [Ofsted December 2023] Ours is a school where teachers love talking about teaching and learning, where relationships between students and staff are positive and strong, and where we do what we can to keep workload manageable. We are never complacent; we are always looking for marginal gains in order to keep what we do reasonable, but exciting. It is the combination of interested students, dedicated staff, supportive parents, a rigorous and empathetic Governing Body and school leadership team (staff and student) which makes our school such a special place to be.
Dame Alice Owen's School is a mixed, partially selective secondary school with approximately 1,440 students including over 400 in our vibrant and highly successful sixth form. Our school benefits from some of the most able students in the country. In the 2023 A level examinations; 60% of all A level grades were A*-A with 82% of grades being awarded A*-B. In GCSE examinations, students achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 71.2 and a Progress 8 score of 0.63 with 24% of all grades awarded at level 9 and 95% of students achieving 5 or more grades 9 – 4 including English and Maths. Many of our school leavers from Year 13 have offers from top universities to choose from, including an average of 24 places at Oxbridge each year.
We were delighted to be recognised as 'The Sunday Times Regional School of the Decade' in 2020 and the country's highest ranking non-fully selective state school of the year many times over. Securing a place at Owen's has been described as "winning the lottery" in the Good School Guide, "the golden ticket" in Tatler and Ofsted judged us "outstanding" in all categories in December 2023, with no areas for improvement.
If you'd like to come and join us, we would love to meet you and talk to you more. Please call to arrange a chat, if you would like to, or just send us your completed application pack. I look forward to meeting you.
Hannah Nemko, Headteacher
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