Gauteng Dept of Education: Examinations Assistants Opportunities 2023/2024
The department invites unemployed persons to apply for these opportunities.
Responsibilities:
- Daily receive, check, control, scan, and pack scripts for marking including indexed archival of scripts after marking.
- Ensure the correct number of scripts and mark sheets per batch, subject, paper, and examination session are received, controlled, scanned, and packed for the correct marking venue.
- Ensure that discrepancies regarding the above are addressed per batch, subject, paper, examination session.
- Ensure each bag of scripts includes two copies of the MP Flow control list of contents, and bag tagged with the correct marking venue color-coded label.
- Create a marking center file of all scripts to be dispatched for each marking venue.
- Assist with dispatching of scripts to the marking venues.
- Receive, control, and archive marked scripts at Head Office for easy retrieval as and when required.
- Receive control and distribute scripts to marking teams.
- Ensure the correct number of scripts and mark sheets per batch during marking.
- Assist with controlling, distribution, and scanning of scripts.
- Ensure all questions are marked, marks added correctly, and correctly transferred to the front cover of the script.
- Ensure that the total on each script is correct and correctly transferred to the mark sheet.
- Ensure that discrepancies regarding all the above are addressed by the marking teams and amendments effected accordingly on both the script and mark sheet.
- Reconcile the number of scripts, control and arrange scripts per subject, paper, numerically for indexed archival after marking.
Requirements:Â
- Grade 12Â / National Senior Certificate / National Senior Certificate Vocational.
- Registered students at tertiary institutions, unemployed persons with one or more tertiary qualifications,s, and unemployed graduates may apply.
- Applicants must possess advanced numerical skills with Mathematics or Accounting as a compulsory subject.
- Second-year and above tertiary students will be advantaged.
- Please indicate previous experience in examinations administration as an Examination Assistant [ Marking Centre or Office based].
- The nature of the work is linked to tight deadlines and thus requires that the successful candidate be able to work under pressure.
NB: Persons writing National Senior Certificate /Senior Certificate and AET Examinations in 2023, persons who have taken the VSP, and persons employed elsewhere may NOT apply and will not be considered.
