Exam Centre Coordinator

**EXAM CENTRE COORDINATOR**

**JOB DESCRIPTION [AUG 2024]**

**(Full-time 6-month fixed-term contract)**

**Overview of role**

ILSC Education Group is one of Australia’s largest and fastest-growing language schools, known for the quality, rigour and variety of programs that are tailored to best meet international student needs and interests. ILSC Programs include General English, English for Academic Purposes, IELTS Preparation, Cambridge Preparation, and a variety of engaging Elective classes.

As a full-time teacher, the Exam Centre Coordinator plays a crucial role in teaching across ILSC’s language programs, (including on exam preparation courses where relevant), engaging ILSC students in their English language studies, and ensuring best practice in Learning & Teaching methodologies, classroom management, assessment, and use of educational technology. The Exam Centre Coordinator is a successful mediator between a descriptive curriculum and student goals and needs, supporting student academic progress and student satisfaction, ensuring academic integrity at all times, working collaboratively and constructively within the teaching and broader teams, completing all administrative and reporting tasks as required, and adhering to relevant ILSC Policies and Procedures.

In addition to their teaching, the Exam Centre Coordinator fulfills extra duties to further support the ILSC Exam Centre, exam preparation courses, and teachers and broader staff. The Exam Centre Coordinator is responsible for the administration and conduct of official examinations and pre-examinations, including supporting and guiding exam preparation teachers, encouraging student take-up of official exams, staying up to date with exam course needs, exam requirements, and exam centre registration, coordinating and guiding proctors, and liaising with official examination bodies.

The Exam Centre Coordinator will represent ILSC’s core values internally and externally, upholding a collaborative and supportive staffroom ethos, and participating actively in sector Communities of Practice and Special Interest Groups, such as the English Australia Assessment SIG and IATEFL TEASIG.

The Exam Centre Coordinator is supported by the ILSC Head Teachers, works within a team of national Exam Centre Coordinators, seeks guidance from the Director of Studies ILSC Brisbane & National Exam Centres, and reports to the local campus Director of Studies. The Exam Centre Coordinator is engaged under the terms of The National Employment Standards (NES) and the Educational Services (Post-Secondary Education) Award 2020.

**Job Duties**

The Teacher duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following tasks:

- Teach a variety of multimodal (face-to-face, online, and/or hybrid) ELICOS classes (teaching roster and total weekly hours to vary based on operational need but not to exceed 25 hours)
- Work collaboratively with ILSC Head Teachers and other ILSC Teachers
- Prepare and upload clear lesson plans prior to each lesson
- Perform periodical analyses of student goals and needs against set learning outcomes
- Embrace a principled communicative methodological approach
- Engage students in their learning through a student-centred teaching philosophy
- Enhance classroom learning and teaching by implementing new resources and technologies
- Provide students with regular formative feedback including writing tasks and summative academic progress reports in accordance with ILSC guidelines
- Be alert to and escalate student welfare concerns as appropriate
- Complete all teaching-related admin accurately and within required deadlines
- Attend and actively participate in Session Meetings & Professional Development Sessions
- Actively contribute to ILSC’s positive learning ethos and inclusive, collegiate staffroom culture
- Commit to reflective practice (self/peer observations, engaging with ELT literature and trends)
- Participate in and represent ILSC in SIGs and CoPs
- Other related duties or projects as determined by the campus Director of Studies

The Exam Centre Coordinator duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following tasks:

- Work alongside the Director of Studies ILSC Brisbane & National Exam Centres, Director of Studies, National Director, fellow Exam Coordinators, Head Teachers and Students Services to ensure ILSC Australia takes a principled, thorough and aligned approach to all ILSC Exam Centre interactions and operations with students, examination bodies, and all other stakeholders
- Regularly consult examination body guidelines, protocols and procedures, regulatory guides, best practice guides, literature and industry initiatives to ensure ILSC is a leader in international student exam implementation and integrity
- With the Director of Studies ILSC Brisbane & National Exam Centres, schedule future ILSC exam preparation course intake dates in alignment with established official exam dates and confirm with Nati