Lecturer in Educational Psychometrics

As part of our continuing expansion of medical, pharmaceutical and healthcare sciences at Bangor University, the North Wales Medical School is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced applicant for this permanent role of Lecturer in Educational Psychometrics.

The successful candidate will provide psychometric support, advice and guidance to the School’s activities in student assessment and selection across a number of professional programmes. The candidate will also contribute to teaching across our new independent Medicine programme, the teach-out phase of the current Cardiff C21 North Wales Medicine programme, and our new MPharm Pharmacy programme.

The student intake across our programmes will be expanding over the next 5 years, and the successful candidate will have a unique and exciting opportunity to be involved in the development and quality assurance of the new North Wales Medical School. This post offers a stimulating environment with support to enable you to fulfil your professional ambitions.

The School’s overall mission is to champion and promote excellent medical and healthcare science, research scholarship, teaching and learning, language and cultural competence relevant to local, national and international priorities and an inclusive culture and environment for staff and students of the school.

Candidates should have obtained a higher degree (or equivalent) in a subject with a high statistical content e.g. Mathematics, Psychology, Computer Science and have knowledge of relevant statistical and psychometric approaches to assessment analysis.

The successful candidate will be expected to commence as soon as possible to contribute to the teaching within the School and supporting the application of the field of Psychometrics, in addition to other areas of programme delivery.

The role holder will oversee the development of psychometric tools and analysis to assist in our standard setting approaches of assessments and secure academic standards.

The successful candidate will study for the University’s Postgraduate Certificate/Diploma/Masters in Medical Education qualification, and/or seek other professionally recognised teaching qualifications. This will be factored into the postholder’s job plan and appropriate support will be offered by the School.

This role will be located on campus at Bangor. Through our Dynamic Working framework, there will also be the option to spend some time working remotely (although remaining in the UK) to support work life balance, which will be discussed further with candidates at interview.

Applications will also be considered to carry out this role on a part-time or job share basis.

Applications will only be accepted via our on-line recruitment website, jobs.bangor.ac.uk. However, in cases of access issues due to disability, paper application forms are available by telephoning 01248 383865.

Interested applicants are invited to contact the Dean of Medicine, Dr Nia Jones, n.e.jones@bangor.ac.uk

Closing date for applications: 11/11/2025

Committed To Equal Opportunities.

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