Senior Assessment Officer - London, United Kingdom - King's College London

King's College London

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Salary: £ 37,332 - £42,099 pro rota, per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 16 February 2024.

Closing date: 10 March 2024.

Business unit:
Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

Department:
Faculty Education Services.

Location:
Guy's Campus

Category:
Professional & Support Services.

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This is role forms part of a busy assessment and examination team within the Programme, Placement & Assessment Team in Faculty Education Services.

It is responsible for providing a professional and quality service to students and academics on the professionally regulated programmes in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine (FoLSM).

We are seeking an enthusiastic, proactive administrator who is committed to providing an excellent assessment provision.

The role will be expected to coordinate a broad range of operational activity including; general student enquiries, exam paper production, online coursework submission, mark sheet production, results processing and student feedback.

The post holder must be an excellent communicator able to present information clearly and concisely with experience of servicing assessment boards and producing reports.

Applicants must have excellent IT skills, specifically Microsoft Excel and some experience of a student record system and/or VLE would be beneficial.

The role holder will be expected to manage a varied workload often across competing priorities, requiring the ability to negotiate and influence to deliver an excellent service.

This role sits within the Faculty Education Services in FoLSM at our London Bridge campus - visit the King's HR pages for more information.

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract.

This is a part-time post - 06.FTE.

Key responsibilities

To deliver a professional and service centric assessment provision across all aspects of examination and coursework administration, supporting the requirements of the professional programmes within the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine (FoLSM)

To coordinate a team of Assessment Officers within the Programme, Placement & Assessment team (PPA) ensuring a consistent, accurate and timely service across all operational assessment activity; including exam content/paper production, exam scheduling, coursework/project submission, coordination of mark entry and results processing, production of feedback and publication

To provide full servicing duties to Assessment Sub Boards and Assessment Boards ensuring board paperwork is accurate and completed in good time.

Maintaining up to date knowledge of College and programme regulations and relevant external PSRB standards in order to provide authoritative guidance to both students and academic colleagues

Working closely with the Head of Assessment to coordinate all assessment activity across the full academic cycle; proactively contributing to the production of operational plans.

Liaising with the central College Exams and Award Team and working closely with programme and assessment leads

To support the production of examination timetables, coursework and project submission schedules, extension and resit timelines across all summative and formative assessment for a range of professional health programmes

To regularly liaise with academic leads managing the collation of questions and content for the production of both paper and online examinations; supporting with blueprinting and standard setting and ensuring adherence to quality assurance standards, external examiner scrutiny and print deadlines

To coordinate and run external exam events (such as PSA) booking venues, arranging invigilation and examiners.

Ensuring papers are available at venues along with all other materials and effective routines are in place for the collection and reconciliation of answer sheets.

To coordinate student submissions across a broad range of coursework, assignments, project and portfolio; ensuring that online submission systems such as the virtual learning environment (KEATS) and supporting processes and procedures are effective and meet student and marker requirements

Responsible for managing the collation of mark entry and feedback, ensuring adherence to processing deadlines, mark schemes and programme regulations; proactively encouraging academic colleagues to complete marking and feedback on time, ensuring results are entered accurately onto SITS, that feedback routines are met; proactively identifying and escalating delays to processing as necessary

Responsible for the day to day organisation of tasks within the team, ensuring all activity is well planned and where necessary in conjunction with the Exams & Coursework Manager reprioritised where there are conflicting priorities across a varied workload

To provide full servicing responsibilities to Assessment Boards across a range of programmes, supporting with determining the annual cycle of meetings, room bookings, production of agenda, attendance records and secure distrib