Assessment Associate- Engineering

Assessment Associate – Engineering

Temporary rolling contract

ECITB is the employer-led skills body for the Engineering Construction Industry in Great Britain. We invest around £28 million every year to enhance skills across the engineering construction industry, support growth through workforce training, and tackle labour shortages and skills gaps.

As an organisation dedicated to ensuring the provision of a highly skilled workforce, we are committed to investing in our colleagues and consultants to support and help them to develop and reach their full potential. We recognise that our people are our most asset and vital to our ongoing success and we strive to foster a culture of empathy, emotional intelligence, and acceptance.

We are seeking assessment associates that can work flexible to be part of our team to write and review questions for our external assessments in the following engineering disciplines:

• Project Control
• Welding

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Key responsibilities

• • Produce assessment content including questions and mark schemes that meet ECITB qualification and assessment specification requirements using our systems within set timeframes.
  • Following and maintaining the standard set by the ECITB product development managers
  • Peer review assessment content, providing high quality feedback where necessary.
  • Assist with quality assurance checks of question banks as and when required.
  • Action feedback from peer reviewers, product development managers and / or scrutineers within agreed timescales
  • Attend and participate in assessment associate standardisation and training events, and other meetings as required by the ECITB.
  • Maintain confidentiality of ECITB assessment materials, candidate details and report any breaches to the Assessment Systems Manager.

Person specification

Successful applicants will:

• • • Have a high level of recent, relevant subject knowledge (project controls and welding)
    • Have teaching or assessment experience in the relevant subject and level.
    • Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
    • Have excellent attention to detail.
    • Have evidence of recent Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in the sector
    • Be able to work to prioritise work and meet fixed timescales.
    • Be able to follow procedures accurately and reliably.
    • Be computer literate and have access to a secure PC/laptop with a firewall and up-to-date anti-virus software.
    • Be able to attend occasional in-person meetings as required by the ECITB.

Full training will be provided to ensure you’re able to complete your duties in line with the ECITB requirements.

Equality, inclusion and diversity (EDI)

The ECITB is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all sections of the community, particularly those that are under-represented in the engineering construction industry. Please note, you must be eligible to live and work in the UK indefinitely to apply for our vacancies.