Assessment Quality and Standards Manager
Assessment Quality and Standards Manager
Permanent, Full time: 35 hours per week
Salary: £47,000 - £52,000 + Benefits
Home based in England, Scotland or Wales with occasional national travel
About the role
The Governance, Assurance & Continuous Improvement team within EAL, part of the Enginuity Group, plays a key role in upholding the integrity, transparency and excellence of our qualifications and assessments. We ensure robust governance frameworks, provide assurance and promote a culture of continuous improvement across EAL.
Reporting to the Associate Director of Governance, Assurance and Continuous Improvement, the Assessment Quality and Standards Manager will provide expert, impartial guidance on the development, revision and quality assurance of qualifications and assessments. The role focuses on embedding quality, standards and regulatory compliance, taking an evidence-based approach to monitoring standards, identifying and mitigating risks, and strengthening quality practices across the organisation.
What you’ll be doing
You will provide leadership on assessment quality and standards matters, shaping EAL’s qualifications and assessment strategies and developing the quality and standards framework. This includes advising on qualification development and revision, quality assurance processes, marking, grading, awarding and standards setting, and leading the awarding process for externally assessed assessments.
You will lead the design and review of quality and standards documentation, conduct audits and reviews, and produce reports highlighting trends and risks. The role also involves ensuring ongoing regulatory compliance, proactively managing risk, representing EAL at external meetings, collaborating across teams to embed quality throughout the qualification lifecycle and overseeing relevant training to enhance organisational capability.
What we’re looking for
You will have an expert understanding of standard setting and maintenance across a range of assessment approaches, with significant experience of quality assurance, marking, grading and awarding within an Awarding Organisation. You will bring up-to-date knowledge of regulatory requirements and the regulated Awarding Organisation environment, along with experience of risk identification and data-informed decision making.
You will be a strategic thinker with excellent communication skills, able to convey complex information clearly to a range of audiences. Self-motivated and professional, you will demonstrate strong stakeholder management, the ability to lead high-performing teams, including remotely, and experience of working at Senior Management level and supporting change within assessment practice or organisational processes.
Working for EAL/Enginuity Group
We offer a supportive work environment and a comprehensive benefits package.
Equity, diversity and inclusion are integral to everything we do, and we are committed to being an inclusive workplace where all colleagues feel valued and able to be themselves. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences.
Many of our team work flexibly, and we would be happy to discuss how flexible working could work for you and the business. If you are shortlisted for interview, please let us know so we can explore this together.
We also welcome discussions about any reasonable adjustments that may 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.
As part of our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion, you’ll receive our Equal Opportunities Survey. We’d greatly appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete it - it helps us monitor and improve our recruitment practices.
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.
- Department
- Governance, Assurance and CI
- Role
- Head of Governance and Assurance
- Locations
- UK
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
