Principal Assessor – Non-Exams Assessment

Permanent, Full-Time (35 hours per week)

Salary: £45,000-£50,000 + benefits package + £4,800 Car Allowance

Home based in England, Scotland or Wales with regular travel

About the role
The Principal Assessor – Non-Exams Assessment will provide technical leadership and management for EAL’s team of Assessors and Lead Assessors, ensuring the consistent and compliant delivery of Non-Exams Assessments, including End-Point Assessments (EPAs) for Apprenticeships. This role plays a key part in maintaining high standards of assessment practice, ensuring regulatory compliance, and driving continuous improvement in delivery.

The Principal Assessor will lead standardisation and moderation activities, support assessor development, and act as a technical expert and advisor across the organisation. With a strong focus on quality assurance and governance, this role will also champion customer experience by ensuring that learner, provider, and employer needs remain central to assessment delivery.

What you’ll be doing
• Lead standardisation, training, and upskilling activities for Assessors and Lead Assessors.
• Ensure assessment practices are fair, consistent, and compliant with regulatory frameworks and EAL policies.
• Provide technical mentoring and guidance to support Assessor and Lead Assessor development.
• Contribute to the annual review and performance evaluation of Assessors and Lead Assessors.
• Oversee moderation activities and sampling outcomes to ensure consistency in assessment decisions.
• Produce reports on moderation outcomes, assessor performance, and quality assurance trends.
• Provide expert advice for the development and review of assessment materials and models.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Assessor team to achieve high levels of performance, engagement, and wellbeing.
• Foster a customer-first mindset and role model EAL’s values and behaviours.
• Lead or support change initiatives, including system or regulatory updates.
• Monitor and report on KPIs, budgets, and service performance targets.

What we’re looking for
• Demonstrable experience in a similar leadership role with a track record of managing remote teams.
• Proven experience in leading and developing a team of Assessors or quality assurance professionals.

• Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks (e.g. Ofqual, Skills England, ESFA).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present to senior stakeholders.
• High emotional intelligence with strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
• Effective influencing, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Assessor and/or IQA qualification (e.g., CAVA, TAQA, D32/33, V1).

• Engineering and Manufacturing occupational competence and qualification is essential

• Experience with EPA and/or quality assurance in an Awarding Organisation.

Other skills which would be desirable however not needed to apply for the role
• Experience working in a similar role within an Awarding Organisation (AO) and/or End-Point Assessment Organisation (EPAO).
• Understanding of Ofqual’s Conditions of Recognition and experience ensuring team compliance.
• Familiarity with digital assessment platforms and systems used in regulated assessment delivery.

Working for EAL/Enginuity Group

We offer a supportive work environment and a comprehensive benefits package. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive place to work for all our colleagues and we want everyone to feel valued and that they can be themselves at work.

Many of our team work flexibly, and we would be happy to talk to you about how this could work for you, please let us know if you are shortlisted for interview so we can discuss this with you.

We welcome discussions regarding reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

Remote/home based working at Enginuity

Your working hours will be 35 per week, working 9am until 5pm with a 1 hour lunch.

As a home-based employee you will fulfil your job responsibilities from home. Interactions with work and colleagues will be from a virtual environment. Depending on your role you will be required to either have some occasional travel or UK national travel. This travel will be required to allow you to fulfil different parts of your role and to meet colleagues on a quarterly basis. Other meetings that might require you to travel are events such as all colleague away days, training, and project work. Please review the advert to gain this insight to how much travel is expected. Also, ask at interview stage to confirm the frequency of travel and distance.

The company will provide you with the IT equipment required to carry out your role but it is a requirement that you provide all the necessary facilities for working from home; including broadband, home office, desk and chair.

Our benefits include:

• Competitive externally benchmarked salaries
• A defined contribution pension (4.5% employer/employee contribution).
• 25 days paid holiday (increasing after 1 years’ service to 26 days and 2 years to 27 days), plus bank holidays.
• 3 additional paid days for company shutdown over Christmas and New Year
• A holiday buy scheme - option to buy up 5 days extra days holiday per year
• Life assurance of 2x your salary
• A Healthcare Cash Plan so you can claim back the costs of everyday health care such as dental, optical and physiotherapy. Plus, a virtual 24 hour GP service.
• Paid membership of a Professional Body to support your continuous development.
• An Employee Assistance Programme offering free confidential advice and support
• Wellbeing programmes, access to a free wellbeing website and wellbeing app
• Paid time off to volunteer in your local community or to support wider charitable causes
• A comprehensive discounts and benefits scheme, with discounts at many high street and online retailers
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependant leave
• Access to training and development opportunities

About Us

The Enginuity Group exists to find new ways to close skills gaps in UK engineering and manufacturing in order to create a more productive sector at the forefront of designing, making and maintaining the solutions to society’s greatest challenges. Enginuity is a charity that has created a ‘common language’ for engineering and manufacturing occupation and skills data, to help employers have the right skills at the right time to adapt faster to change.

We use this unique approach to sector data, alongside our deep understanding of the skills needs of UK engineering and manufacturing businesses, to:

• support engineering and manufacturing employers in discovering new sources of skills;
• provide insights and recommendations on the skills that are increasingly in demand so businesses, sectors and government can plan ahead;
• and alongside EAL, the Enginuity Group's specialist Awarding Organisation, End Point Assessment Organisation and skills partner for industry, connect organisations to ensure technical education is fit for purpose and keeps pace with changing industry needs, new technologies and the net-zero transition.

Further Information

If you have any questions, a request for further information, or would like to request this information in an alternative format, our Recruitment Team will be happy to help. Email us at recruitment@enginuity.org.

We’re unable support UK relocation or to sponsor a visa for this role.

Depending on the volume of applications, the closing date for this position may be extended or brought forward.