• Job Description

  Req#: 13903

  VQ Assessment Leader - Reformed Tech awards
  

  Your Opportunity

  At Pearson, we are Brave, Imaginative, Decent and Accountable. We work on a variety of projects, products and services to create and maintain an excellent assessment and content experience for our learners. This role plays a key part in the delivery of all related assessment aspects for a selection of vocational qualifications, assessments and services, and is accountable for the accuracy and timeliness of assessment content and outcomes in their assigned area. This role requires the postholder to be able to deliver key assessment tasks, in a high pressured and regulated environment on time and accurately.

  • A full-time permanent role working 37.5 hours per week
  • UK hybrid working

  Key Accountabilities People

  • Will be able to work effectively on their own and as a valued member of a team
  • Will engage in training and development opportunities
  • Will value the needs and rights of others Customer Service
  • Will “Think customers first” to ensure a great customer experience
  • Ensure accurate and timely responses to customer queries
  • Use customer relationship management tools to identify opportunities to support customers further and improve the customer experience

  Data Management

  • Analyse assessment performance data with a view to making improvements and defending decisions in relation to pass marks or the setting of grade boundaries.
  • Implement and monitor Risk-ratings for BTEC QA Quality Management
  • Will be able to follow tight timelines with accuracy and escalate issues if they occur
  • Responsible for accurate Content and Assessment management for their allocated assessments
  • Responding to key external or internal requirements, and with continued improvement and simplification in mind. Relationship Management
  • Will build and maintain successful relationships with all our external and internal partners
  • Managing performance of contractors
  • Work closely with key stakeholders to ensure accurate content production and timely assessment results
  • Equip stakeholders with necessary content production tools, information and resources, to ensure agreed outcomes and deadlines are achieved whilst maintaining quality
    • Be able to learn quickly, be curious and imaginative

  Key Skills, Behaviours and Experience

  The post holder will:

  • Have assessment or content creation experience
  • Be able to thrive in a high-pressured and regulated environment
  • Have project management capabilities
  • Be resilient and not afraid to make decisions based on key pieces of information
  • Be comfortable to use new technology to improve the learner experience
  • Be able to communicate accurately and effectively
  • Be able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the assessment cycle

  Qualifications

  • The postholder will hold a degree or other relevant qualification or experience

  About us

  Pearson is working with the world’s leading experts, teachers, and researchers to create the best tools for learning, and we are equipping schools, colleges, universities, and other organisations with systems, content, and resources to help

  their students learn. As the world’s learning company, we aim to be the standard setter for learning— fuelling a love and enthusiasm for it at every step along the way, because wherever learning flourishes, so do people.

  Your Rewards Benefits and Rewards

  We know you’ll do great work, so we give a lot back with some of the best benefits in the business. We know that one size doesn’t fit all, so our workplace programmes meet the different needs of our diverse teams, and their families too. There is a range of options, but when you join our Pearson family these are some of the benefits that we offer that you can look forward to:

  • A competitive salary
  • 25 Days annual leave, this increases by 1 day each year up to 30 days with the option to buy and sell up to 5 days per year on top of this
  • 3 days of volunteer leave and 2 days of social justice leave
  • A fantastic pension plan, where Pearson double what you contribute
  • Maternity, paternity, and family care leave
  • Flexible work policies
  • Save for shares scheme to purchase shares at a discount
  • Other benefits include private dental care, private medical insurance, digital GP service, season ticket loan, eye tests, cycle to work scheme, employee wellbeing assistance discounted retail and leisure products and services from leading companies and much more.

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• About the company

  At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to add life to a lifetime of learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough.

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