Pearson Hiring for Chief Examiner – Accounting & Finance – (T Levels) Job at London, England Full Time

Reference: CE/T/AF

Closing date: 21 November 2021 at midnight

Pearson is currently recruiting a Chief Examiner – Finance and Accounting – (T Levels)

To take responsibility for a complete specification and be responsible to the Chair of Examiners for ensuring that the examination as a whole, including coursework, meets the requirements of the specification and maintains standards, year on year.

The Chief Examiner will be involved in a range of activities at each stage of the assessment cycle. Their responsibilities will include writing question papers and mark schemes, as well as leading the standardisation of its marking and assisting in the awarding process.

Responsibilities

• To supervise the Examiner team.

• To supervise the construction of the question papers and mark schemes to ensure appropriate standards.

• To ensure that the question papers, as a whole, cover the assessment criteria as set out in the specification, and satisfactorily sample the appropriate content.

• To participate in the Awarding process, ensuring that there is comparability in the standards of awards made via different options or tiers.

• To act as Principal Examiner or Principal Moderator for at least one component of the examination.

Experience/qualifications needed

• You will have assessment experience up to Team Leader level in a relevant qualification

• You will have experience of teaching the relevant subject and level

• You will have experience of managing people.

Competencies Required

• You will be a good communicator

• You will have sound organisational skills.

• You will have the ability to work well under pressure.

• You will have the ability to meet deadlines.

• You will be IT literate.

About Pearson

Welcome to Pearson, the world’s leading learning company. We have a simple mission: to help people make more of their lives through learning. We are the UK’s largest awarding body and offer qualifications that are globally recognised and benchmarked, with educational excellence rooted in a range of General and Vocational courses

Short listed applicants will be required to attend an interview online. For further details of the role see the job specification attached.

If you have any questions regarding the vacancy then please contact us by raising a case on associate.pearson.com