Assessment Governance Officer

Department: Governance and Legal Services Directorate
Salary: £42,405 - £49,785 per annum (Grade 5)
Reference: 1672
Location: Department W, 81 Mile End Road
Date posted: 18 March 2024
Closing date: 14 April 2024

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About the role

The Assessment Governance Officer role is a new post that will support a range of projects related to the continuous improvement of assessment governance. The role will have specific responsibility for the management and interrogation of data on assessment, particularly with reference to the University’s review processes and compliance with the Office for Students’ Conditions of Registration. The role will also manage some of the Degree Examination Boards and their associated processes, providing expert advice on assessment governance to a range of colleagues across the University.

About You

Candidates are expected to have:

• Significant experience of assessment governance in a higher education context, including experience of examination boards
• Extensive knowledge of the Office for Students’ Conditions of Registration that relate to academic quality and standards
• Sound understanding and experience of the interpretation and presentation of complex data
• Experience of developing and implementing policy, including research, development, drafting, consultation, socialisation, and review
• Experience of managing committee work at a senior level, with the ability to deliver complex agendas while working to tight deadlines
• Understanding of the operation and management of academic regulations and policies

About the Directorate

The Governance and Legal Services Directorate comprises expert teams in governance, compliance, policy, casework, and legal, working with a common purpose to protect the University’s interests whilst enabling innovation and the achievement of the University’s objectives. The Directorate works collaboratively across the university community to develop awareness of university policy and regulations, legal issues, and external compliance. The Assessment Governance Officer will play a key role driving improvement in assessment governance, policy, and practice.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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