Examiner

IOSH Professional Qualifications

IOSH Professional Qualifications are high quality occupational qualifications that prepare candidates for roles within the occupational safety and health (OSH) profession. They require candidates to complete scenario-based examinations, to assess their skills against a range of assessment criteria.

Examiners are external occupational safety and health (OSH) subject matter experts who mark candidate’s responses in accordance with the pre-defined mark scheme, whilst adhering to guidance and examination procedures.

This is a self-employed consultant role with the opportunity to examine during the IOSH examination windows which occur four times a year. Allocations of marking are not guaranteed and depend on the volume of candidates in any one examination window.

Responsibilities of the IOSH Examiner

• Attend training/standardisation meetings to ensure best practice is adhered to when marking responses
• Mark written responses accurately and consistently to the standard set, on the IOSH AO e-assessment platform Surpass
• Submit samples for standardisation and moderation to the Principal Examiner at designated times
• Ensure timescales for marking are adhered to
• Ensure all administration is completed as specified.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Education and Training

• Teaching/Training or assessment experience in OSH at the relevant level
• High level of recent, relevant subject knowledge, in order to apply the mark scheme

Skills and Qualities

• Have access to a secure PC with firewall, up to date anti-virus software, private broadband access and a personal secure email account
• Evidence of good written and verbal communication skills
• Be able to follow procedures accurately and reliably.
• Be able to work to fixed timescales
• Demonstrate the IOSH values of One IOSH, Excellence, Integrity and Flexibility

Seniority level

Associate

Employment type

Other

Job function

• Training
• Non-profit Organizations