Remote Principal Examiner & Content Author A Level Further Pure Math

Pearson; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson invites applications for the role of Principal Examiner and Content Author for GCE A Level Further Pure Mathematics (8FM0/9FM0). This fully remote position serves Greater London, United Kingdom, enabling you to oversee standards across externally assessed units and coordinate standardisation meetings.

You will lead quality assurance activities, ensure materials meet accessibility and inclusion guidelines, and provide expert feedback throughout production and review cycles.

Qualifications

• Experience and knowledge of quality assurance and assessment practice.
• History of moderation and/or marking a regulated qualification.
• Proven ability to provide and co-ordinate training such as standardisation and other standards-related activities.
• A comprehensive knowledge of the specification for your specialist sector, including internal and external requirements.
• Provide examples of when you were asked to lead/support essential quality assurance activities.
• Leadership experience in delivering qualifications.
• Knowledge of regulatory compliance and requirements.
• Report writing within a regulated industry.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring assessment materials comply with the Global Content Policy, fully support accessibility, diversity, equality, and inclusion, and sensitivity guidelines.
• Ensuring all applicable assessment materials produced are of high quality and show sufficient coverage of the assessment criteria.
• Ensuring all materials are appropriate to the specific range of ability and will result in good discrimination and differentiation at all levels that it is designed to test.
• Advising on subject specialist matters throughout the production process and providing feedback where necessary.
• Adhering to the production schedules and turnaround requests, keeping Pearson informed of your availability which could affect deadlines.
• Ensuring that materials do not contain unnecessary repetition of questions and that distractors do not inform the answer to other questions.
• Reviewing, reporting, and clearly marking up comments and producing revised assessment materials, as required.
• Providing feedback on drafts at each stage and attending sign-off meeting(s) where required.
• Ensuring all associated materials are updated throughout the production process. Signing off the final assessment materials.
• Supporting, reviewing, and agreeing on modified paper amendments, where requested by Pearson.

Skills

Quality assurance

Assessment practice

Moderation

Training coordination

Regulatory compliance

QA leadership

Report writing

Leadership

Education

UK recognised teaching qualification

Job description

Pearson invites applications for the role of Principal Examiner and Content Author for GCE A Level Further Pure Mathematics (8FM0/9FM0). This fully remote position serves Greater London, United Kingdom, enabling you to oversee standards across externally assessed units and coordinate standardisation meetings.

You will lead quality assurance activities, ensure materials meet accessibility and inclusion guidelines, and provide expert feedback throughout production and review cycles.