Chief Examiner - GCE A Level - Physics

Edexcel currently have a vacancy for a Chief Examiner to join our GCE A Level Physics senior assessment team.

The Chief Examiner is responsible to the Chair of Examiners in ensuring that the examination as a whole meets the requirements of the specification and maintains standards year on year. Chief Examiners also undertake the role of Principal Examiner or Principal Moderator for at least one component of the examination.

• To supervise the Principal Examiners and Principal Moderators
• To supervise the construction of the question papers and mark schemes to ensure appropriate standards
• To ensure that the question papers, as a whole, cover the assessment criteria as set out in the specification, and satisfactorily sample the appropriate content
• To participate in the Awarding process, ensuring that there is comparability in the standards of awards made via different options or tiers
• To act as Principal Examiner or Principal Moderator for at least one component of the examination.
  

• You will have a degree or equivalent
• You will be a qualified teacher
• You will have experience of teaching the relevant subject and level
• You will have experience of managing people
• You will have assessment experience up to Team Leader level in the relevant qualification
  

• You will be a good communicator
• You will have sound organisational skills
• You will have the ability to work well under pressure
• You will have the ability to meet deadlines

The deadline for applications is the 17th September 2010