Quality and Assessments Officer

About the role
We are seeking to recruit a Quality and Assessments Officer in the Faculty of Science and Engineering who will play a key role in supporting quality assurance and assessment processes for our taught programmes. The postholder will manage and coordinate processes around academic misconduct cases and examination paper production, including moderation, scrutiny committees and liaison with external examiners. They will also support the Quality Manager on Faculty Education Committees and Subject Examination Boards, contributing to continual improvements in programme design, curriculum management and the assessment of learning. This is a hybrid role, with opportunities to work at Queen Mary’s Mile End Campus and remotely.

About You
This role would suit someone with experience of quality assurance, examinations or assessment administration in Higher Education. The successful candidate will be highly organised, confident working with data, and able to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders including academic staff, students and external examiners. You will have a detailed understanding of Higher Education regulations and procedures, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and experience of servicing committees and supporting regulatory processes. A commitment to fairness, inclusivity and supporting student success is essential.

About the Faculty of Science and Engineering
The Faculty of Science and Engineering comprises of five Schools that deliver the research and education activity of the Faculty. The Faculty has a wide range of key interactions with partner organisations, including with overseas partners, other Government departments, research and education networks, funders and regulators. The role sits within the Professional Services job family and the role holder is expected to be an active part of the University’s support staff family, working with academic colleagues across a wide range of responsibilities to help deliver its academic mission.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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