Head of Assessment Validity

2 days ago

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS & ASSESSMENT Full time

Head of Assessment Validity

Salary: £66,000 - £88,350 per annum

Location: Cambridge/Hybrid

Contract: Permanent/Full Time

We have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Assessment Validity to join a highly collaborative, cross-functional team of assessment experts, actively making a difference to our learners around the world. You will encourage innovation to improve the quality and effectiveness of assessment approaches and develop a wider culture and understanding of the importance of validity.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

The Head of Assessment Validity will lead on best practice approaches to manage validity throughout the assessment product lifecycle, working closely with colleagues in our Research and Impact teams. You will ensure that products are developed and operationalised effectively to achieve, and provide evidence of, their intended measurement properties and fitness for purpose. This will involve providing technical assessment knowledge and expertise, documenting and articulating a joined-up narrative about test performance and ensuring quality and validity considerations are represented appropriately at all levels.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead on the development of best practice in managing validity throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Provide technical psychometric and applied linguistic expertise to devise, own, and maintain appropriate technical frameworks to assess impacts to validity and support decision making across Assessment Operations.
  • Define requirements for a comprehensive validity argument narrative for products and approaches to manage the associated evidence, to satisfy external stakeholder needs.
  • Provide leadership for a range of assessment professionals to identify areas for improvement, mitigate risks to the validity of products.
  • Manage cross-functional teams to ensure validity is embedded in day-to-day activities.
  • Champion the importance of assessment validity and our principles of good practice, as well as promoting the use of evidence based decision making.

About you

As our Head of Assessment Validity, you should possess extensive awareness of the global context and markets in which Cambridge English operates, along with strong knowledge and experience of learning and assessment-related principles, research, processes, and data analyses.

The ability to interpret inferential statistics and complex analysis is essential, combined with excellent communication skills to work with both technical and non-technical audiences. You should have experience in overseeing operational research and business change projects from a technical perspective, as well as strong presentation and influencing skills, including to senior stakeholders.

Additionally, you should have experience in building and managing strong relationships with consultants, academic researchers, regulators and other external stakeholders.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

  • 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
  • Discretionary annual bonus
  • Group personal pension scheme
  • Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
  • Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Sunday 23 March 2025 and interviews are scheduled to take place on the week commencing Monday 31 March 2025 onwards.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

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