Senior Assessment Officer

Job id: 084687. Salary: £ 37,332 – £42,099 pro rota, per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 16 February 2024. Closing date: 10 March 2024.

Business unit: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. Department: Faculty Education Services.

Contact details:Estelle Jacobs. [email protected]

Location: Guy's Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.

This is role forms part of a busy assessment and examination team within the Programme, Placement & Assessment Team in Faculty Education Services. It is responsible for providing a professional and quality service to students and academics on the professionally regulated programmes in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine (FoLSM). We are seeking an enthusiastic, proactive administrator who is committed to providing an excellent assessment provision. The role will be expected to coordinate a broad range of operational activity including; general student enquiries, exam paper production, online coursework submission, mark sheet production, results processing and student feedback. The post holder must be an excellent communicator able to present information clearly and concisely with experience of servicing assessment boards and producing reports. Applicants must have excellent IT skills, specifically Microsoft Excel and some experience of a student record system and/or VLE would be beneficial. The role holder will be expected to manage a varied workload often across competing priorities, requiring the ability to negotiate and influence to deliver an excellent service. This role sits within the Faculty Education Services in FoLSM at our London Bridge campus – visit the King’s HR pages for more information.

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract.

This is a part-time post – 06.FTE .

This role does not meet the requirements of the Home Office and therefore we are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who require the right to work in the UK.

• To deliver a professional and service centric assessment provision across all aspects of examination and coursework administration, supporting the requirements of the professional programmes within the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine (FoLSM)
• To coordinate a team of Assessment Officers within the Programme, Placement & Assessment team (PPA) ensuring a consistent, accurate and timely service across all operational assessment activity; including exam content/paper production, exam scheduling, coursework/project submission, coordination of mark entry and results processing, production of feedback and publication
• To provide full servicing duties to Assessment Sub Boards and Assessment Boards ensuring board paperwork is accurate and completed in good time. Maintaining up to date knowledge of College and programme regulations and relevant external PSRB standards in order to provide authoritative guidance to both students and academic colleagues
• Working closely with the Head of Assessment to coordinate all assessment activity across the full academic cycle; proactively contributing to the production of operational plans. Liaising with the central College Exams and Award Team and working closely with programme and assessment leads
• To support the production of examination timetables, coursework and project submission schedules, extension and resit timelines across all summative and formative assessment for a range of professional health programmes
• To regularly liaise with academic leads managing the collation of questions and content for the production of both paper and online examinations; supporting with blueprinting and standard setting and ensuring adherence to quality assurance standards, external examiner scrutiny and print deadlines
• To coordinate and run external exam events (such as PSA) booking venues, arranging invigilation and examiners. Ensuring papers are available at venues along with all other materials and effective routines are in place for the collection and reconciliation of answer sheets.
• To coordinate student submissions across a broad range of coursework, assignments, project and portfolio; ensuring that online submission systems such as the virtual learning environment (KEATS) and supporting processes and procedures are effective and meet student and marker requirements
• To support the Exams & Coursework Manager and Head of Assessment & Examinations in the delivery of technological advances with SITS, online portfolio other new applications; identifying enhancements to process and supporting with implementing changes to procedures and ways of working
• Responsible for managing the collation of mark entry and feedback, ensuring adherence to processing deadlines, mark schemes and programme regulations; proactively encouraging academic colleagues to complete marking and feedback on time, ensuring results are entered accurately onto SITS, that feedback routines are met; proactively identifying and escalating delays to processing as necessary
• Responsible for the day to day organisation of tasks within the team, ensuring all activity is well planned and where necessary in conjunction with the Exams & Coursework Manager reprioritised where there are conflicting priorities across a varied workload
• To provide full servicing responsibilities to Assessment Boards across a range of programmes, supporting with determining the annual cycle of meetings, room bookings, production of agenda, attendance records and secure distribution of papers and formal minute writing
• To support with the timely processing of mitigating circumstances (MC); responding to students, supporting with preparation of paperwork for the MC Panel and maintaining accurate records
• Accountable for the data quality of assessment records, ensuring record keeping is accurately maintained and is of a highly organised standard, able to withstand the scrutiny of audit at short notice.  This high standard extends across all record

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Interviews will take place in person on Tuesday 19th March 2024 and will involve a test and panel questions.