Exam Developer - Online Exams

Enginuity; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 33,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/home-based working

25 days annual leave + holiday boosts

Healthcare cash plan

Life assurance

Pension contributions

Wellbeing resources

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Enginuity Group is seeking an Exam Developer to design, maintain and quality assure online examinations for UK centres and learners. You will use statistical insights to review item performance and inform content updates, ensuring regulatory compliance and accurate assessment delivery.

You’ll work with subject matter experts, item writers and reviewers to produce high-quality materials, and manage version control across platforms while supporting continuous improvement in assessment development.

Qualifications

• Experience developing, maintaining or reviewing assessments.
• Awareness of UK awarding organisation regulation.
• Strong planning and communication skills.
• Experience with Angoff processes is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and quality assure online examinations.
• Coordinate development with subject matter experts.
• Use online systems to build, test and release content.
• Maintain records and version control.

Skills

Assessment development

Data analysis

Version control

Quality assurance

Stakeholder communication

Angoff processes

Tools

Online testing platforms

Item banks

Examinations systems

Job description

Exam Developer - Online Exams
Permanent, Full Time: 35 hours per week
Salary: up to £37,000 (depending on experience) + Benefits
Home based in England, Scotland or Wales with occasional national travel for quarterly meetings and ad hoc events

If you have experience developing assessments and enjoy combining attention to detail with data and problem solving, this could be a great opportunity. As an Exam Developer at EAL, you’ll help shape and maintain high quality online examinations that are accurate, fair and fit for purpose, supporting centres and learners across the UK.

About the role

As an Exam Developer, you’ll develop, maintain and quality assure EAL’s online examinations and item banks, ensuring they remain current, reliable, accessible and compliant with regulatory requirements. You’ll use statistical analysis to understand how examination questions are performing and identify where items need to be reviewed, amended or replaced.

You’ll coordinate the development and review of examinations, working with subject matter experts, item writers and reviewers to produce high quality assessment materials. You’ll also use EAL’s online examination systems to build, test and release content, maintaining accurate records and version control throughout.

Working closely with colleagues across Product, Quality and Compliance, you’ll help ensure examinations continue to meet the needs of learners and centres while supporting continuous improvement in assessment development and quality assurance.

About you

You’ll have experience developing, maintaining or reviewing assessments, ideally within an awarding organisation or other regulated assessment environment. Though you will need to have an awareness of UK awarding organisation regulation. You’ll also understand assessment principles and be confident working with online testing platforms and item banks, including test building, quality assurance and version control.

You’ll be comfortable interpreting item and test performance information and using this to make informed decisions about assessment content. Additionally, you’ll bring excellent planning and communication skills, meticulous attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.

Experience working with subject matter experts, item writers and reviewers will be important, alongside confidence using online assessment systems and digital workflows. Experience within an Awarding Organisation dealing with examinations, educational assessment qualifications or CPD, and experience with Angoff processes would be advantageous.

About us

Enginuity Group is a dynamic organisation powered by two complementary forces: our industry-leading awarding organisation, EAL, and Enginuity, our innovation-driven charity.

EAL develops and maintains a wide range of high-quality qualifications and assessments to meet evolving industry demands and accelerate the transition to net zero. Alongside this, Enginuity focuses on tackling the UK’s engineering and manufacturing skills gap - using data-driven insight to boost productivity. Together, we’re shaping a future where engineering and manufacturing talent can thrive, and UK industry stays at the forefront of innovation.

Our Benefits and Culture

• Remote/home-based working - our standard working hours are 35 per week, 9am until 5pm with a 1-hour lunch. Many of our team work flexibly, and we would be happy to discuss how flexible working could work for you and the business.
• Annual Leave – You will start with 25 days annual leave, increasing to 27 days after two years’ service. You’ll also enjoy three additional paid days off between Christmas and New Year during our company shutdown. If you’d like a little more time to recharge, you can buy up to five extra days of holiday each year.
• Wellbeing – Our healthcare cash plan helps you claim back everyday health costs equating up to £995 per year, and we have trained Mental Health First Aiders available for support. You’ll also get an annual voucher for a free flu vaccination, eyecare vouchers and access to free wellbeing resources and a wellbeing app.
• Employee Assistance Programme –24/7 access to a free confidential helpline and access to up to eight structuredcounselling sessions.
• Professional Development – We covertheannualmembership fee for a relevant professional body and offer ongoing support from our Learning & Development team.
• Financial Benefits – Make your salary go further with access to our Benefit Hubdiscount platform, offering exclusive savings across a wide range of well-known retailers. You’ll also benefit from financial wellbeing resources, webinars to help you stay on top of your finances, life assurance cover of x2 your salary, and pension contributions of 4.5%.
• Family Friendly – We offer enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependant policies.
• Volunteer – Take paidtime off to volunteer, whether supporting your local community or contributing to causes that matter to you.

Diversity, Equality, Inclusion & Belonging

We promote a supportive, inclusive workplace where everyone is valued and encouraged to be themselves. We actively welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’re a member of the Association for Black & Minority Ethnic Engineers, hold Clear Assured Gold accreditation for our inclusive culture, and are a Menopause Friendly Committed Employer. As a Disability Confident Leader, we encourage applications from people with disabilities and are open to discussing reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and employment.

Further information

If you have any questions, a request for further information, or would like to request this information in an alternative format, our Recruitment Team will be happy to help. Email us at [e-mail]

As part of our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion, you’ll receive our Equal Opportunities Survey. We’d greatly appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete it - it helps us monitor and improve our recruitment practices.

We’re unable to support UK relocation or to sponsor a visa for this role.

Depending on the volume of applications, the closing date for this position may be extended or brought forward.