Higher Education Moderator

About the role:

As a Higher Education (HE) Moderator, you will play a crucial role in upholding the integrity and consistency of CMI qualifications within Higher Education settings. This vital position involves providing independent oversight of marking standards, ensuring alignment with CMI Learning Outcomes, and supporting dual accreditation mapping.

Join us in maintaining regulatory compliance and the high standards of the CMI product portfolio, contributing directly to the quality assurance of future management and leadership professionals.

*Please note, this role is being offered as an 18-month fixed-term contract*

Responsibilities:

• Moderation: Sample, review, and moderate assessment evidence and samples from Higher Education partners to ensure validity, reliability, sufficiency, and consistent marking, meeting CMI and regulatory standards. Provide feedback on sampling activities.
• Mapping: Map CMI Partners and programmes against CMI qualifications (RQF Levels 5-8) and units, and the CMI Professional Standard, ensuring learning outcomes, assessment criteria, and professional criteria are met. Recommend adjustments as needed. Map competency framework content for strategic partners and contribute to product development.
• Quality Assurance: Apply VACSR principles to all assessment evidence. Provide evaluative moderation reports, identifying compliance risks, and recommend assessment outcome adjustments. Contribute to standardisation activities.
• Support and Development: Provide constructive feedback to Higher Education partners, identify and disseminate good practice, and support CMI staff and partners in understanding regulatory and awarding body requirements.
• Compliance and Reporting: Ensure moderation aligns with regulatory conditions. Complete timely, accurate reports. Escalate risks, malpractice, or maladministration. Provide required data and suggest policy improvements. Adhere to all CMI policies, especially the Code of Conduct.
• Standardisation: Attend and participate in all activities and standardisation sessions.

About you:

We are an inclusive employer and welcome all diverse backgrounds, where individuality is celebrated, creating both a forward-thinking team and a supportive space for everyone in the CMI team. We actively invite applications from diverse cultures and experience.

We are looking for someone who can enhance our culture and align with our core values. We want someone who is ‘Passionate’ in making a positive difference to the skills of managers and leaders, ‘Practical’; with the ability to make quick and smart decisions, ‘Progressive’ about creating a better future and maintaining a ‘Professional’ code of conduct, through being accountable and ethical in everything that we do.

Essential

• Higher Education teaching, assessment, or external examining experience.
• Strong grasp of UK qualification frameworks (RQF, FHEQ) and quality assurance.
• Quality Assurance qualification or equivalent.
• Experience, understanding, and technical knowledge of leadership and management qualifications.
• Experience in creating and maintaining high-quality customer relationships.
• Ability to attend meetings in person (UK) or online (overseas); occasional overseas travel may be required.
• Enthusiastic about education and maintaining standards.

Desirable

• Experience with professional bodies or awarding organisations.
• CMI or relevant professional body membership.
• Understanding of CASS.
• Experience in regulatory requirements and frameworks, preferably in assessing and/or compliance.
• International experience.

Why CMI:

Are you looking to join a dynamic and ambitious organisation? At CMI, new leadership and management strategies are at the fore-front of what we do. We know the importance of fresh ideas and encourage new perspectives. We are a not for profit, Sunday Times Best Company To Work for 2024, with a Platinum Accreditation with Investors in People. We offer an engaging, flexible and collaborative culture with a wealth of opportunity for professional development.

It doesn’t stop there. We believe we are only as good as the people that work at CMI and in turn offer a competitive benefits package for all employees:

• Flexible working - our expectation is 2 days a week in the office, to suit you. We are not a traditional 9 to 5, we are flexible with what hours you work and when you work. Our offices in both London and Corby provide comfortable collaboration spaces for team get-togethers
  21 days’ holiday + 8 days’ Bank Holiday + 4.5 days allocated for CMI holiday over
• Christmas and New Year period - with annual leave days increasing with length of service and the opportunity to buy and sell holiday
• Wellbeing and mental health - in-house mental health first-aid trainers and BUPA Employee Assistance for 24 hour support
• Inclusion at our core - Our colleague-led Inclusion Hubs for Ethnicity, LGBTQIA+, Menopause, Age, Disability and SocioEconomic are open for anyone to join
• CMI membership - take advantage of our amazing courses and become a Chartered Manager. Plus, CMI will pay your professional membership to one additional organisation of choice
• Rewards and Recognition scheme - cash prizes awarded to employees throughout the year
• Pension - we add an extra 6% of your gross salary to your pension pot every month after 3 months

About us:

The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) sets the Professional Standard in Management and Leadership. We have worked with businesses and education providers to inspire people to unleash their potential through qualifications, apprenticeships and training to become skilled, confident and successful managers and leaders, resulting in Chartered Manager status - the ultimate management accolade, which is proven to boost individuals’ career prospects, management capability and impact in the workplace.

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We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than advertised should we receive a high number of suitable applicants.