Senior Assessment Operations Coordinator - 7310

Cambridge University Press & Assessment; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 28 days

Private medical

Discretionary bonus

Group pension

Life assurance

Green travel

Job summary

Cambridge University Press & Assessment in Cambridge is seeking a Senior Assessment Operations Coordinator. The role offers hybrid working (2 days in the office) and a fixed-term focus on delivering high-quality examination services.

You will supervise teams, optimize processes, manage risks, and maintain strong stakeholder relationships to ensure timely and accurate exam delivery, while prioritising wellbeing and performance.

Qualifications

• Strong collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders.
• High attention to detail in processing and documentation.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Customer-focused mindset with service delivery in mind.
• Experience in leading teams and developing people.

Responsibilities

• Supervising others in the use of systems and processing platforms to complete critical processes accurately and on time.
• Planning for peak processing periods, bespoke sessions, and projects; reviewing after.
• Recording, investigating, and mitigating identified issues and risks.
• Addressing wellbeing, engagement, and performance with direct reports.
• Developing and implementing process improvements with colleagues.
• Understanding internal and external customers and ensuring reports reflect this.
• Maintaining relationships with colleagues and external stakeholders to deliver exams.
• Leading bi-annual documentation reviews to create and sign-off Process Flows and Work Instructions.

Skills

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Working under pressure

Customer focus

Team leadership

Job description

Job Title: Senior Assessment Operations Coordinator

Salary: £26,600- £32,600

Location: Cambridge UK – Triangle, with hybrid working (2 days a week in the office)

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

If you are innovative, customer focussed, a great team player and looking for a new and exciting challenge this could be the role for you.

About The Role

These are exciting times for Cambridge University Press & Assessment as we look to modernise our systems and strive to find creative and innovative ways to improve our products and services to customers. To enable us to meet the ever-increasing demand for our services, we are seeking to appoint an experienced, enthusiastic and dynamic Senior Assessment Operations Coordinator, who will thrive in this changing environment and is motivated by delivering excellent customer service.

• Supervising others in their use of a wide range of systems and processing platforms to complete a variety of documented, business critical processes accurately and within pre-agreed timescales
• Ensuring that peak processing periods, bespoke sessions, and projects are suitably planned for and reviewed after
• Ensuring that identified issues and risks are accurately recorded, investigated, and suitably mitigated against in a timely manner
• Appropriately addressing wellbeing, engagement, and performance with direct reports through continuous conversations
• Identifying ways of developing processes and working collaboratively with colleagues to implement improvements
• Developing an understanding of our internal and external customers and ensuring your direct reports share that understanding
• Establishing and subsequently maintaining constructive working relationships with colleagues across the organisation and key external stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of our exams
• Leading direct reports in a thorough bi-annual documentation review, where comprehensive and compliant Process Flows and Work Instructions are created, reviewed, updated and signed-off

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.

About You

The successful candidate will be an instinctive collaborator, consistently demonstrate a high-attention to detail and be able to work effectively under pressure and to demanding deadlines. They will also have a passion for helping others to realise their potential, through empowerment, recognition of progress and mutual respect.

Please refer to the Job Description for further knowledge, skills and experience required for this role.

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long‑term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.

Please note, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to sponsor this role under the Skilled Worker Visa route as it does not meet the minimum skill requirements.

Rewards And Benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world‑class, flexible rewards package, featuring family‑friendly and planet‑friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will 23rd August 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place on 2nd and 3rd September, in person, at our Cambridge office.

If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:

• To be provided with a scenario to prepare for your interview.
• Interview: in-person at our offices in Cambridge.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.