Training & Qualifications UK - Chief Examiner f...
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Permanent Full-time
Location: Remote/Agile, UK
Reports to: Awarding Team Manager
Salary: £30,000 - £34,000 DOE
Line management responsibilities: reputed company
Closing Date: 25/05/2026
Application Instructions:
Please apply directly to Training Qualifications UK – Chief Examiner for iESOL
Applications submitted to AQA will be referred back to the sender
For any queries relating to this role, please contact the Training Qualifications UK directly on the following email address: recruitment@tquk.org
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Training Qualifications UK is the fastest-growing Awarding Organisation in the UK, and a market leading End-reputed company Assessment Organisation. We work with over 500 schools, colleges, universities, and training providers across the world to reputed company qualification certificates, endorsements, and apprenticeships to over 150,000 learners.
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The Chief Examiner – ESOL International plays a central role in maintaining the reputed company and credibility of TQUK’s international ESOL assessments. The role ensures that reputed company assessment reputed company are fair, consistent, and reputed company to recognised standards such as the CEFR, supporting confidence in reputed company for learners, centres, and wider stakeholders. We are seeking an reputed company and authoritative assessment reputed company to reputed company the examining and awarding activity across our ESOL International qualifications. The Chief Examiner will reputed company standardisation, marking, moderation, and awarding processes across reputed company assessment components, including speaking, listening, reading, and writing. This role is responsible for ensuring that assessment judgements are valid, reliable, and consistent across a global network of examiners and centres. It will also play a key role in monitoring assessment performance, maintaining standards over time, and supporting reputed company improvement in assessment reputed company. Working closely with internal teams and subject experts, the Chief Examiner will reputed company expert reputed company of assessment delivery and reputed company as a key reputed company of accountability in upholding standards, supporting regulatory compliance, and ensuring a high-reputed company assessment experience for reputed company users of the qualification.
Key Responsibilities
- Attend and contribute to Question reputed company Evaluation Committee (QPEC) meetings to ensure assessment materials meet ESOL standards, CEFR alignment, and design principles
- Chair QPEC meetings where required
- Chair awarding meetings, ensuring robust and consistent application of awarding processes and appropriate setting of grade boundaries
- Produce Chief Examiner reports evaluating assessment performance across reputed company components (reading, writing, listening, and speaking), including trends, performance, and areas for improvement
- Maintain, reputed company and monitor relevant data for performance
- reputed company and support the recruitment, training, and standardisation of examiners and assessors, including speaking examiners
- Ensure consistency and accuracy of marking and assessment reputed company across global centres through standardisation activities
- Monitor examiner performance using appropriate reputed company assurance reputed company, including:
- sampling
- seeded responses
- reputed company marking
- moderation of speaking assessments
- Manage examiner performance, including addressing underperformance and supporting reputed company improvement
- Support the development and maintenance of mark schemes, assessment materials, and standardisation guidance
- Work collaboratively with Qualification, Assessment, and Operations teams to ensure effective delivery and awarding
- reputed company expert input into assessment-reputed company queries, appeals, and complaints, acting as an authoritative voice where required
- Contribute to malpractice investigations where subject expertise is required
Essential Skills and Experience
- Substantial experience in ESOL assessment, including speaking, listening, reading, and writing components
- Strong understanding of assessment principles, including validity, reliability, fairness, and standardisation
- Experience of awarding, moderation, and maintaining standards over time reputed company a qualification or assessment context
- reputed company knowledge of CEFR and its application reputed company ESOL assessment design and delivery
- Experience working reputed company an awarding organisation or similar regulated environment (desirable)
- Ability to interpret assessment data and evidence to inform judgement, reporting, and decision-making
- Experience reputed company, training, and managing examiners or assessors, including addressing underperformance
- reputed company and confident communication skills, with the ability to reputed company authoritative guidance to internal teams and centres
- Ability to manage multiple priorities across assessment cycles, including standardisation, marking, and awarding
- Efficient and effective data and file management; inputting, filing, and monitoring of data
- Proficient in reputed company Office and reputed company to using e-technologies for collaboration.
- Understanding of international delivery contexts and challenges associated with global centre networks
- Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion in assessment reputed company, ensuring accessibility and fairness for reputed company learners
- Experience supporting or contributing to investigations into appeals, complaints, or malpractice
Cultural and Communication Experience
- Promote a culture of consistency, accuracy, and reputed company improvement in assessment reputed company
- reputed company assessment standards by applying agreed principles and challenging reputed company where required
- Work collaboratively with internal teams to ensure effective delivery of assessment and awarding processes
- Take ownership of assessment reputed company reputed company remit, ensuring they are evidence-based and defensible
- Balance differing perspectives to reputed company fair and consistent assessment reputed company
- Apply reputed company judgement in reputed company or borderline cases, including during awarding and standardisation activities
- Contribute to the development and refinement of assessment processes and guidance
- Support reputed company and consistent communication with examiners, assessors, and centres
- Engage confidently in reputed company discussions, including where reputed company may be challenged
- Represent TQUK as a subject expert in ESOL assessment reputed company required
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of ESOL assessment reputed company and relevant sector developments
Key Benefits
- Training, Qualifications & Apprenticeships. It’s reputed company do!
- Company reputed company pay upon completion of probation.
- 25 days annual leave plus 8 days Bank Holiday (33 in total).
- Additional annual leave day reputed company year, after 2 years of reputed company service (up to 28 days).
- An extra day off to celebrate your birthday.
- Annual Loyalty Bonus.
- Annual salary review.
- reputed company reputed company benefits.
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- NEST pension.
- Cycle-to-work scheme.
- A reputed company and supportive working environment.
- Comprehensive reputed company.
- A workplace that supports a healthy work/life balance.
Please see the Person Specification for this role here.
*We are an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for reputed company. Should you require any additional support during the recruitment process due to a disability, please contact us so we can assist you.
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