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Reference:GCSE/AD/DPM
Closing date:23 April 2017 at midnight
Deputy Principal Moderators (GCSE Art & Design) will be carrying out very similar duties to the PM with the exception of being responsible for a specific unit. The most crucial criteria for the DPM is a firm knowledge of the standards across units and titles including digital and non-digital submissions. DPMs will be reporting to the PM and the Qualification Delivery and Award Manager in Pearson. They will be directly responsible for a group of Team Leaders and their team of moderators.
Responsibilities
- To ensure the examination meets the requirements of the specification and maintains standards from one year to the next.
- Standardising of marking.
- Standardisation for External Moderation.
- Monitor the standards of marking of all the moderators for the paper.
- Monitor the standards of External Moderation for all of the moderators for both the portfolio and examined units.
- Be involved in the awarding process, advise members on how the question paper functioned and where appropriate, recommend preliminary mark ranges for the judgemental grade boundaries for the question paper.
- Ensure that the external and internal assessments as a whole cover the assessment criteria, as set out in the specification.
- Submit an evaluation report on the performance of the paper – performance of each unit at AS/A2 as required.
Experience/qualifications needed
- You will have a degree or equivalent in the relevant subject.
- You will be a qualified teacher, with UK school-based teaching experience, in the relevant subject and qualification.
- You will have assessment experience of leading a team of AAs in the relevant qualification.
- You will have experience of managing people in an Educational environment.
- You will have knowledge of the specification.
Competencies required
- Ambassador
- Strategist
- Mediator
- Public speaker
- Problem solver
- Motivator
- Teamwork
- Leadership/influencing
- Change management/flexibility
- Will have the ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Will be required to have excellent communication, strong organisation and IT skills
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