Senior Assessment Associate
3 weeks ago
About the Role
The Senior Assessment Associate will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and consistency of our assessment delivery system. This position requires a strong understanding of quality assurance and assessment practice, as well as excellent communication skills.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the standardisation of Examiners and ensure that the standards of an externally assessed unit(s)/module(s)/component(s) are maintained and are consistent with the unit specification and assessment criteria.
- Lead meetings such as pre-standardisation and standardisation, and participate in others such as appeals against results and post-series reviews.
- Select and mark items for validity as agreed at the pre-standardisation meeting.
- Mark an allocation of live candidates' responses, to quality assure as part of a supervisory role, where required.
- Prepare and collate materials for standardisation.
- Support supervisors and Examiners.
- Sample supervisors/Examiners' initial marking and backreading responses, as directed, using the appropriate Pearson marking system to target backreading and correct specific problems.
- Monitor the progress of supervisors/Examiners.
- Review responses for clarification.
- Act as a senior point of escalation across the quality assurance process.
- Provide support across several versions of the paper, including all those introduced previously, and any versions introduced during the contractual period.
- Monitor and report to the Assessment team after standardisation and completion of marking, submitting a completed feedback form for each supervisor/Examiner as directed.
- Support in awarding activities by writing reports to the Awarding Committee, recommending grade boundaries, participating in the awarding activities, and other areas where required.
- Complete the Senior Assessment Associate review process, reflecting on your own challenges and successes, and attending a follow-up meeting with the assessment team where required.
- Submit reports on the series/candidate performance.
- Provide support and written responses to complaints where required.
Requirements
- Experience and knowledge of quality assurance and assessment practice.
- History of moderation and/or marking a regulated qualification.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Proven ability to provide and co-ordinate training such as standardisation and other standards-related activities.
- A comprehensive knowledge of the specification for your specialist sector, including internal and external requirements.
Desirable
- High level of IT proficiency.
- Leadership experience in delivering qualifications.
- Knowledge of regulatory compliance and requirements.
- Report writing within a regulated industry.
Qualifications
Qualifications required to apply for your chosen role at Pearson will depend on the qualification you are delivering. Please contact Pearson ahead of your application if the requirements are not clear.
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