Assessment Operations Lead

Location: Slough (minimum two days a week)

Salary: £56,000 – £64,000

Status: Full-time

Type: Permanent

Hours: 35

Are you an operations delivery manager with significant experience of delivering assessment or qualifications services? If so, grow your career with NFER as the Assessment Operations Lead and make a positive, lasting impact in a leading independent charity.

This role will lead the operational delivery of our Assessment contracts and trials. You’ll be a core part of the department team, with an important role in ensuring the successful delivery within schools. The role is central to ensuring we have the plans, processes, and capabilities to win, deliver and support assessment contracts.

Purpose:

– Maintain, grow, manage and continually develop NFER’s assessment operations capability.

– Lead the design and delivery of the operational elements of assessment trials and delivery projects.

– Lead the definition, implementation and quality assurance of operational processes.

Requirements:

– A demonstrable track record of delivering high-stakes assessment or qualifications projects.

– Strong project management skills and experience – PRINCE2 practitioner certified.

– The ability to lead and motivate people, maximising performance.

WHY NFER?

We put impact before profit to improve outcomes for future generations everywhere, supporting positive change across education systems worldwide. We are an independent charity and a trusted destination for education, research, evidence, and insights.

We embrace agility and flexibility to enable you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments.

We place equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all.

We offer our next Assessment Operations Lead….

– Competitive salary, £56,000 – £64,000, depending on experience and reviewed annually.

– Generous pension scheme.

– 42 days holiday per year, including Bank Holidays and additional discretionary days.

– Excellent support for continued professional development.

– You will spend your working week between our Slough office and home, depending on the programme’s needs.

– Lots of well-being and social activities.

– And the opportunity to help children around the world have a better life.

We are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all sections of the community. So, if you are looking for a fresh, new challenge, apply via the button shown.

Other roles you may have experience of include: Qualifications Manager or Operational Delivery Lead.

We are reviewing applications regularly as part of an ongoing recruitment process, so please apply today.

If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like us to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please get in touch with us, and we will talk to you about how we can assist.

If you’re looking for a place where you can put your heart, soul and skills into making a difference, then you could be our next Assessment Operations Lead, and we want to hear from you. Apply via the button shown.

This vacancy has been placed by Webrecruit on behalf of NFER.