Assessment Designer, UK London, England
Job description
We are Multiverse, a tech scaleup with a social mission. We’re creating a diverse group of future leaders by building an outstanding alternative to university and corporate training, through the power of professional apprenticeships.
We’re one of the fastest-growing businesses in Europe and rapidly expanding in North America, working with over 500 clients including McKinsey & Co, Morgan Stanley, Verizon and Visa. In June 2022, we broke the EdTech funding record (again!) by announcing our $220m Series D, making Multiverse the UK’s first ever EdTech unicorn.
Join us on our journey to democratising access to the best careers and learning opportunities.
The Opportunity
You will be working in a supportive, friendly, and collaborative team, at the intersection between data & Insights, psychometrics, learning, and product technology. You will sit in the Assessment team, helping to disrupt traditional models of education through designing inclusive authentic assessments and automating apprentice progress tracking to deliver personalised interventions at scale. You will design, validate and lead assessment experiments that test an apprentices proficiency in knowledge, skills and behaviours. In this role you will need to be a self-starter, showing initiative, working with cross-functional stakeholders and managing priorities to solve problems, escalate issues and make decisions.
Specifically, you will:
Design knowledge and skill-based assessments based on programme competency frameworks
Translate Assessment For Learning (AFL) methodology into practical assessment methods that can be implemented at scale
Constantly validate and iterate assessments to increase accuracy and validity
Develop a diversity-first approach to inclusive and authentic assessment
Lead assessment experiments that reduce cost-to-serve and increase business impact
Analyse assessment data to ensure equitable outcomes across programmes
Actively collaborate with a team of learning designers, product managers, coaches and data specialists to implement assessment ideas and track the data to inform apprentice interventions
Influence the product technology roadmap to ensure assessment principles are reflected in the Multiverse learning platform
What you'll bring:
Academic or commercial background in educational assessment
Experience working with competency frameworks
Experience developing and validating knowledge and skill-based assessments
Passion for diversity and inclusion
Ability to complete critical processes with a high degree of accuracy at pace
Creative problem-solving skills and a ‘can do’ attitude
Great at building relationships and trust with people quickly
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work independently as well as within a team environment
Passionate about processes and getting tasks done
You are a problem solver and can work under pressure
Additional Skills:
In addition to generalists, we are looking for Assessment Designers who will work on our technical curriculum, such as our Software Engineering programme. Desirable skills such as programming languages or use of data tools (e.g. JavaScript, Python, SQL, Tableau, Excel, R) are not essential but favorable.
Benefits
Time off - 27 days holiday, plus 7 additional days off: 1 life event day, 2 volunteer days, and 4 company-wide wellbeing days
Health & Wellness- private medical Insurance with Bupa, a medical cashback scheme, life insurance, gym membership & wellness resources through Gympass and access to Spill - all-in-one mental health support
Hybrid & remote work offering - with weekly or monthly visits to the London office and the opportunity to work abroad 45 days a year
Team fun - weekly socials, company-wide events, and office snacks!
Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We’re an equal opportunities employer. And proud of it. Every applicant and employee is afforded the same opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. This will never change.
Right to work
Do you have the right to work in the UK? Unfortunately, at this time we cannot offer sponsorship for this role and we cannot consider overseas applications.
Safeguarding
All posts in Multiverse involve some degree of responsibility for safeguarding. Successful applicants are required to complete a Disclosure Form from the Disclosure and Barring Service ("DBS") for the position. Failure to declare any convictions (that are not subject to DBS filtering) may disqualify a candidate for appointment or result in summary dismissal if the discrepancy comes to light subsequently.
