Examinations Officer

Job Description

About East African University of Rwanda

Our Vision is to become a leading academic institution of higher learning of first choice in the provision of relevant vocational skills, professionalism and affordable market oriented quality education for sustaining professionals in their various fields.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

1. Recalls and sharing the examination Code of conduct with all staff and students, through Heads of Department and Guild president office
2. Receives and printing questions papers for CAT and Final exams after internal moderation
3. Being responsible for the dissemination and collection Receiving marked coursework (CATS, Assignments) from
4. Lecturers before returning them back to Students, especially the Class Representatives, to confirm if all scripts picked have been marked by the specified deadlines
5. Having in place the submission form filled and signed properly by Invigilators and Lecturers while submitting coursework and final exam and also while picking scripts and submitting results after marking
6. Counts and confirms with the Invigilator the number of booklets picked from the examination office for a specific room to be taken to an examination room using a specific form to avoid booklet losses and for proper examination management
7. Reminds Lecturers to hand in questions papers and results with marking schemes internally moderated, vetted by the external examiner,
8. Prints out all questions papers four days before the examination day and making sure all questions papers have been moderated by Heads of departments with the support of one or two internal experts.
9. Enforces the respect of deadlines, especially for handing in questions papers and results after the examination day, it is essential for the smooth running of the process that these are met.
10. Monitors the marking process of scripts and ensuring that scripts are marked anonymously with appropriate checking of completeness and of marks addition on the cover page and inside the booklet
11. Similarly, the marks lists used by the
12. Examiner officer should be checked for accuracy, especially while submitting booklets from the examination room and also while lecturers are submitting results
13. Shares with Lecturers the results template for Coursework and final exams with all components and weights for each assessment: CAT, Assignments and Final exam
14. Files properly all results sheets signed in hard copies by the Lecturer to acknowledge the accountability for all marks awarded to students’ in a specific Module
15. Liaises with the External Examiner(s) to obtain feedback on the draft examinations papers, and to supply him/her with relevant examples of student examination scripts and coursework, marks lists etc.
16. Liaises with the Head of Departments and Invigilators regarding the examination arrangements for students with special requirements.

Qualification and working experience

Bachelors’ degree in Education, Business administration, law or related field with experience of 3 years in similar work teaching in HLI.

Required Documents

1. Copy of all degrees
2. Cover Letter
3. CV
4. Service testimonial of previous or current employer

Application Procedure

For application submission refer to the email: hr@eaur.ac.rw . Any inquiries reach out to HR Office on the following contact addresses: Telephone
number (250)788504964 or mentioned email.