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Quality Lead (Assessments)
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Posted: 27/06/2025
Expiring: 25/07/2025
This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking awarding organisation as Quality Lead (Assessments), where you’ll play a key role in ensuring the integrity, fairness, and reliability of assessments across a diverse qualification portfolio.
Benefits Package
TPP Recruitment is proud to be working with a leading awarding organisation that has been supporting learners and providers for over 30 years. With a mission to be the awarding organisation of choice, they are committed to creating accessible, high-quality qualifications that enable learners to thrive. Their values – Partnership, Integrity, Originality, and Quality – are embedded in everything they do, and they are proud to be an inclusive employer that celebrates diversity.
About the Role
As Quality Lead (Assessments), you’ll manage a team of Quality Officers and oversee the delivery of external assessments across a range of qualifications. You’ll be responsible for maintaining standards, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and leading on awarding processes including standard setting, grade boundary recommendations, and data analysis.
This role is ideal for someone with extensive assessment experience who understands the nuances of standard setting and is ready to lead a team in a dynamic, remote-first environment.
Key Responsibilities
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
Expiring: 25/07/2025
- £36000 - £36200 per annum
- England, East Anglia, Essex, Stanway
- Permanent
- Are you passionate about assessment and ready to lead a team delivering high-quality, externally assessed qualifications?
- Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where your expertise in standard setting and assessment delivery can make a real impact?
This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking awarding organisation as Quality Lead (Assessments), where you’ll play a key role in ensuring the integrity, fairness, and reliability of assessments across a diverse qualification portfolio.
Benefits Package
- Salary: £36,200 per annum
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time, 35 hours per week
- Location: Remote
- Other benefits:
- Annual leave: 30 days plus bank holidays, with office closure between Christmas and New Year
- Pension: Defined benefit scheme (University Superannuation Scheme)
- Bonus: Annual discretionary bonus based on organisational performance
- Homeworking allowance: Monthly contribution towards utilities
- Flexible working: Core hours between 8:30am–5:30pm with flexibility around start/finish times
- Wellbeing support: Health cash plan and Employee Assistance Programme
- CPD: LinkedIn Learning licence and regular one-to-ones with your manager
- Team culture: Regular virtual socials and in-person staff days
TPP Recruitment is proud to be working with a leading awarding organisation that has been supporting learners and providers for over 30 years. With a mission to be the awarding organisation of choice, they are committed to creating accessible, high-quality qualifications that enable learners to thrive. Their values – Partnership, Integrity, Originality, and Quality – are embedded in everything they do, and they are proud to be an inclusive employer that celebrates diversity.
About the Role
As Quality Lead (Assessments), you’ll manage a team of Quality Officers and oversee the delivery of external assessments across a range of qualifications. You’ll be responsible for maintaining standards, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and leading on awarding processes including standard setting, grade boundary recommendations, and data analysis.
This role is ideal for someone with extensive assessment experience who understands the nuances of standard setting and is ready to lead a team in a dynamic, remote-first environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the delivery of external assessments, including online and paper-based formats
- Lead awarding processes, including standard setting and grade boundary decisions
- Manage and develop a team of Quality Officers
- Monitor assessment data and performance against SLAs
- Support the recruitment, training, and monitoring of examiners, markers, and EQAs
- Approve reasonable adjustments and special considerations
- Provide expert guidance to internal and external stakeholders
- Champion continuous improvement and contribute to quality assurance initiatives
- Minimum 12 months’ experience in assessment delivery and awarding within an awarding organisation
- Strong understanding of external assessment methodologies and standard setting
- Experience managing staff and/or contractors
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to evaluate and present assessment data
- Strong communication and time management skills
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and digital tools
- Please send your CV and a cover letter explaining your suitability for the role.
- First stage: Online interviews during the week commencing 28th July 2025
- Second stage: Online interviews during the week commencing 4th August 2025
- Both stages will include tasks relevant to the role
- Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and should be submitted by 12pm on Wednesday 16th July 2025 at the latest.
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
Rachel Ridout
Business Manager