Salary: £48,100 - £64,375 per annum
Location: Cambridge, UK – Hybrid
Contract: Full time, Permanent
Looking to drive innovation in high-stakes assessment and make a meaningful difference for learners around the world?
We are looking for a Senior Psychometrician to join our world-class team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of English language assessment. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the design and implementation of advanced psychometric processes, and innovative approaches that underpin our transformation strategy.
Through our Assessment for Cambridge English (ACE) programme, we are transforming how assessments are delivered - creating flexible, scalable and digital solutions that support learners and partners worldwide.
Working across the Cambridge ecosystem, you will help deliver scalable, modular assessment products and composable systems architecture, ensuring validity, reliability, and compliance across high-stakes testing programmes. Your work will be critical to enabling faster, smarter, and more adaptive assessment solutions for learners worldwide.
About the Role
As a Senior Psychometrician, you will design, develop, and apply psychometric methods that enable the delivery of high-quality, operational assessment systems. You will play a central role in translating theory into practical solutions that are scalable, efficient, and fit for modern digital assessment:
As part of this role, you will:
- Design, implement and evaluate psychometric processes for calibration, equating, marking quality assurance, and validation of tests.
- Collaborate with analysts, engineers, and technology teams to integrate psychometric solutions into digital platforms, and ensure their effective operationalisation.
- Develop approaches to monitor the effective performance of psychometric processes and contribute to validation frameworks
Your contribution will be critical to our transformation whilst ensuring our assessments remain robust, scalable and aligned with regulatory and quality expectations.
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
As a Senior Psychometrician, you will bring strong experience in applying psychometric methods within operational contexts, alongside a passion for solving complex assessment challenges.
To be successful in this role, you'll bring:
- Considerable knowledge of a range of psychometric models and statistical programming skills (e.g. R, Python, SAS).
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to translate theoretical methods into practical solutions
- The ability to apply your specialist expertise in new contexts and acquiring new skills to tackle emerging challenges
- The ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- A collaborative mindset and the ability to lead through influence across diverse teams.
- Experience contributing to or leading defined workstreams or projects.
If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria:
- Familiarity with computer-adaptive testing (CAT) or adaptive assessment models
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.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
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
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 9th August. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place on week commencing 17th August.
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.
