Assessment Coordinators Warrington, North West England, England
Job description
Assessment Coordinators
We have 3 permanent opportunities as Assessment Coordinators in our Assessment and Development team here at City & Guilds.
We welcome applicants who may be looking to take the first step in their career, those looking to change career or who those whom work in associated professions and are looking for a change in direction. e.g. teaching, copy-editing, quality assurance.
We work flexibly and have team members based across the following offices: Burntwood, London, Warrington or Wakefield. Most of our busy team are based in our London EC1A office, although we are flexible on your location as long as you are within commutable distance of one of our key office hubs stated above. Please outline in your application which office you would prefer.
This appointment will be made on merit.
We believe that diversity and inclusion strengthens and enriches us, and that it is the responsibility of everyone at the City & Guilds Group to drive this value. As ethnic minority groups and disabled people are currently under-represented within the Group, we particularly encourage and welcome applications from these communities.
- Assessment Coordinator
About The Role
As an Assessment Coordinator you will be expected to play a key role in the production and maintenance of our assessment materials. This is the heart of our operations and we’ll expect you to support our relentless focus on quality and standards.
Key responsibilities include project managing the production of a high volume of assessments to rigid timelines, the quality assurance of all assessment content, managing a team of external subject matter experts, and the maintenance and review of assessments.
The assessment team interacts with a number of departments within City & Guilds in order to ensure fit for purpose assessments, this means you’ll be working across departments on a number of occasions.
About you
You will be happy to take on responsibility, using your excellent organisational skills to ensure you meet deadlines and maintain the highest level of quality. In this role, you'll be working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, communicating clearly and building strong working relationships.
The role will involve developing and editing assessment materials for various industry sectors. You don't necessarily need to be an expert in the portfolio you will be managing but you’ll be able to be creative, interact with internal and external stakeholders and having a can do attitude will enable you to flourish and develop in the role.
You will be able to develop and co-ordinate associates to assist with the production of assessment materials. You’ll also be required to use your strong IT skills and keen eye for detail to produce and update documentation, maintain spreadsheets, as well as access and manipulate data in a variety of in-house systems. You will also analyse and interpret statistical information to ensure the quality and standard of your portfolio is maintained.
Our story and mission
Our vision is for a world in which everyone has the skills and opportunities to succeed. We support almost five million people each year to develop skills that help them into a job, develop on that job and to prepare for their next job. As a charity, we’re proud that everything we do is focused on achieving this purpose.
Through our assessment and credentialing, corporate learning and technical training offers, we partner with our customers to deliver work-based learning programmes that build competency to support better prospects for people, organisations and wider society. We create flexible learning pathways that support lifelong employability, because we believe that people deserve the opportunity to (re)train and (re)learn again and again – gaining new skills at every stage of life, regardless of where they start.
At the heart of our business sits the City & Guilds Foundation which amplifies our purpose by helping to remove barriers to getting into a job, celebrating best practice on the job, and advocating for jobs of the future.
We were founded in 1878 by the City of London and the trade guilds of the time, to help people, organisations and economies to develop their skills for growth.
Our rich experience means we’re uniquely positioned to understand the future of work and learning. And, we continually evolve to develop and deliver skills for the workplace of the future. Today, as well as qualifications and assessment, we offer digital credentialing, elearning technologies, executive leadership development, technical training and consultancy.
What we offer
We offer the opportunity to work in an innovative, engaging and market-leading organisation with opportunities to develop your existing skills and explore new ones.
You’ll receive an excellent benefits package which typically includes a great base salary, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, pension, private healthcare, volunteering opportunities and much more.
We welcome a discussion about how this role could work flexibly for you. For example work pattern, hours or location.
Next steps and how to apply
If you think this is the role and organisation for you then we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and complete our short application form using the apply
