Moderators - Child Development and Care in Early Years

NCFE; United States; Remote; GBP 20,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

NCFE is seeking Moderators for its External Quality Assurance team on a flexible worker contract, working remotely. The role focuses on Level 1/2 Technical Award in Child Development and Care in Early Years, ensuring fair, accurate assessment and providing constructive feedback to centres to uphold national standards.

Ideal candidates will have a strong background in child development, experience in teaching or assessing in this area, and proven ability to communicate clearly in reports.

Qualifications

• Strong background in child development and early years.
• Experience in teaching, assessing, internal quality assurance, or moderating.
• Excellent written communication and report writing skills.
• Strong organisational and time-management skills, able to work independently.

Responsibilities

• Conduct moderation activities in line with awarding organisation and regulatory requirements.
• Attend standardisation and team meetings as required.
• Review centre marking to ensure accuracy and consistency of assessment decisions.
• Produce clear, accurate moderation reports within SLAs.
• Plan and manage moderation activity for allocated centres according to sampling strategies.

Skills

Moderation

Quality assurance

Child development

Teaching/assessing

Communication

Time management

Education

Level 3+ in child development/early years

Job description

Overview

Flexible Worker Contract

Location: Remote

About the role

We're looking for Moderators to join our External Quality Assurance team on a flexible worker contract for the following qualification:

Level 1/2 Technical Award in Child Development and Care in Early Years

As a Moderator, you'll play a key role in ensuring that centres assess learners fairly, accurately and consistently. You'll review centre-marked work, apply quality assurance principles, and provide clear, constructive feedback to ensure national standards are maintained.

We’re keen to hear from individuals with a strong background in child development and care in the early years, with experience of teaching and/or assessing learners in this subject area. You may currently work, or have previously worked, as a Early Years Teacher, Childcare or Early Years Lecturer, or Early Years Tutor.

Whilst this is a flexible worker role, we require a reasonable level of commitment throughout the moderation window. Moderation activities begin in March 2027 where you will be expected to attend one of our Annual Training sessions. The primary moderation period will be between April and August 2027, during which your engagement will be most critical.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Conducting moderation activities in line with awarding organisation and regulatory requirements

• Attending standardisation and team meetings as required

• Reviewing centre marking to ensure assessment decisions are accurate, consistent and meet required standards

• Producing clear, accurate and timely moderation reports within agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

• Planning and managing moderation activity for allocated centres in line with sampling strategies and quality assurance requirements

• Supporting continuous improvement by identifying areas for development and sharing best practice

• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of the qualification, assessment requirements and your subject-specialist area

We'd love to hear from you if you offer the following:

• A relevant qualification at Level 3 or above in child development, early years education or a closely related subject area

• Current or recent occupational experience working within the child development and care in early years sector.

• Experience of teaching, assessing, internal quality assuring and/or moderating vocational or academic qualifications

• Strong knowledge of assessment and quality assurance processes

• Excellent written communication and report-writing skills

• Strong organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to work independently and meet deadlines

• A commitment to maintaining high standards and delivering a positive experience for centres

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Why work as a flexible worker for NCFE?

Our flexible workforce provides supportive quality assurance to ensure that learners taking NCFE qualifications are getting the best education possible. If you become a flexible worker with us, you’ll choose how to fit your work around your other personal and professional commitments – making this a great opportunity to make a difference in a way that suits you.

You’ll receive full training and the materials, tools or equipment needed to ensure you’re able to complete your duties in line with NCFE requirements, with the ability to take on flexible worker contract alongside other work, without the need to be registered as self-employed.

All applicants will be expected to adhere to NCFE’s behavioural framework and to uphold our core values.

You can find out more about how our flexible arrangements work, the flexible worker roles we recruit, and frequently asked questions around the application, induction and training process, and your rights and protections by visiting our Flexible worker opportunities page.

Shape real change with an NCFE career

Imagine a career where your contributions affect not only what people learn, but the way that learningis developed and delivered.

With over 170 years of education experience our core purpose remains at the heart of the organisation – to promote and advance learning to create a fairer, more inclusive society, making sure no learner is left behind.

Want to know more? Take a lookat our websitehttps://www.ncfe.org.uk/

Closing Date; Wednesday 2 December 2026

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) statement

We're committed to building rich diversity into our workforce at all levels, to ensure that we understand and are representative of the communities and customers we serve.

We do not discriminate against anyone due to their gender, sexuality, race, age, religion, beliefs, identity, social background, visible or hidden disability, or neurodiversity. Instead, we pride ourselves on our collaborative, vibrant and high-performance culture which embraces everyone, celebrates uniqueness, and enables everyone's voice to be heard.