As a Manager, Assessment you will be responsible for the successful delivery of a portfolio of high-stakes qualifications. You'll combine deep assessment expertise with strong operational leadership to ensure assessments are delivered to the highest standards of quality, compliance and customer service.
You'll play a key role in maintaining qualification standards, leading subject teams, working closely with senior examining teams and ensuring trusted outcomes for learners across the UK and internationally.
Key Areas of Responsibility
Assessment Delivery & Standards
Lead the delivery of a portfolio of qualifications, ensuring assessment activity is delivered to time, quality and budget. You'll oversee key stages of the assessment lifecycle, maintain standards, and ensure assessment outcomes remain valid, reliable and defensible.
Technical Assessment Expertise
Act as the assessment expert for your subject area, providing leadership and advice on assessment approaches, standards and quality. You'll work closely with internal teams and assessment associates to ensure assessment materials remain fit for purpose and aligned to evolving educational and regulatory requirements.
Risk, Quality & Compliance
Identify and manage risks associated with assessment delivery, ensuring appropriate controls, governance and contingency arrangements are in place. You'll play a key role in safeguarding assessment quality, maintaining regulatory compliance and protecting confidence in qualification outcomes.
Leadership & Team Development
Lead and develop a subject team, creating a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement. You'll support colleagues to deliver exceptional outcomes while building capability for the future.
Customer & Stakeholder Engagement
Build strong relationships with centres, subject experts, assessment associates and colleagues across Pearson. You'll act as the voice of the customer while balancing learner needs, assessment standards and regulatory expectations.
Continuous Improvement & Insight
Use performance data, customer feedback and assessment insight to identify opportunities for improvement, drive innovation and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of assessment delivery.
About You
We're looking for someone who can demonstrate:
Experience working within assessment, awarding, qualifications or another regulated environment
Strong understanding of assessment principles, standards and quality assurance
Experience leading teams and developing people
The ability to manage operational delivery, risk and competing priorities
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
A commitment to delivering excellent outcomes for learners and customers
Your rewards & benefits
We know you’ll do great work, so we give a lot back with some of the best benefits in the business. We know one size doesn’t fit all, so our workplace programs meet the different needs of our diverse teams, and their families too.
Please see our attractive UK benefits here: Pearson Jobs – Benefits
Who we are:
At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.
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Job: Learning Subject Matter Experts
Job Family: LEARNING_&_CONTENT_DEVELOPMENT
Organization: Assessment & Qualifications
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Req ID: 25520
