Assessment & Awards Officer (fixed term)

Post: Assessment & Awards Officer

Salary: Band 1, £26,000 pa

Contract: Fixed term until December 2025 

Location: Leicester/Hybrid

Closing Date: 23:59 on 02 January 2025

We have a vacancy for an Assessment and Awards Officer to join our friendly Assessment and Awards team at the British Psychological Society. This busy team delivers assessment services for qualification candidates, professional recognition route, CPD audits and psychological testing centre processes.

This role helps ensure that the delivery of the Society's assessment and awards, and associated customer service is conducted to the highest standards, meeting external and internal quality assurance requirements.

Reporting to the Assessment and Awards Manager, you will support the delivery of assessment and awards activity for the Society.

For this role, you will require

• Experience working in an assessment, professional development, learning or education environment, ideally with experience in assessment, for example, end-point assessments, accreditation and/or qualifications
• Experience in quality assurance and quality improvement
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Sound organisational and administrative skills, with good attention to detail
• Proficient with the use of IT systems
• Experience working with a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is desirable.

We offer a friendly, values-led working culture with an excellent benefits package that includes

• Agile & flexible working
• Generous leave entitlement
• Occupational pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme/free eye care vouchers/Winter flu vaccinations
• Tailored learning & development
• Employee Assistance Programme 
• Life Assurance 
• Discounts scheme with local and national organisations

How to apply

See the job profile for further information about the role. 

The closing date for applications is Thursday 02 January 2025. Interviews will be scheduled online for the week commencing 06 January 2025.

To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter detailing how you meet the criteria in the job profile to [email protected]

The British Psychological Society is committed to a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, irrespective of your background or circumstances.

We are only able to accept applications that can demonstrate a right to work in the UK; we are unable to sponsor people requiring a work visa.

Due to the large number of applications we receive, it is not possible to update you on the progress of the application until after the closing date.  If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.