Senior Assessment Officer (Bioscience)

About Us

This role sits within Faculty Education Services in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine (FoLSM) at King\’s College London at our London Bridge campus.

Faculty Education Services provides coordinated services for students, staff & partner providers, enabling the delivery of education through managing quality, programme, placement and assessment administration. We provide dedicated student support that prioritises the student experience to facilitate student success.

The role forms part of the Programme Placement & Assessment Team within Faculty Education Services, providing professional, high-quality service provision in the support of Bioscience education. The Assessment team supports students and academic staff in the delivery and management of the assessment cycle across a large suite of Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to work as a Senior Assessment Officer (SAO) in a busy and vibrant team within FoLSM. The post holder will work as part of a team delivering a high quality comprehensive and professional service that meets agreed standards and expectations. As a Senior Assessment Officer, the role holder will be a representative for the team and Faculty, demonstrating our standards and promoting our service.

The role holder will provide guidance and administrative support to students and staff across our extensive portfolio of Undergraduate and Postgraduate taught programmes.

The role reports to an Assessment Manager in the team and has some supervisory responsibility to ensure tasks are carried out efficiently and accurately and within agreed timelines. The role holder will also be key to supporting and training Assessment Officers in the team.

As part of the team, the post holder will work with colleagues, striving to constantly improve the student experience and positively deliver new initiatives to improve processes. The post holder will be expected to adopt a flexible approach, working at an operational level and contributing to the development of procedures, regularly working with the other Senior Assessment Officers, Assessment Managers and Head of Service, as well as other members of the Faculty Education Services and wider University teams.

The Assessment team are responsible for managing a high number of student and staff enquiries on a daily basis and supporting a wide range of tasks for our programmes and modules across the academic cycle. This includes, but is not limited to, delivery of exams, mark collation and marksheet production, setting up systems for coursework submission, delivery of poster days, supporting processes for mitigating circumstances, appeals and misconduct cases. The post holder also has a key role in ensuring systems, processes and data management are accurate, compliant and auditable.

This is a part time post (28 hours per week; 0.8FTE), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to draft documents and correspondence autonomously to a broad range of audiences
2. Excellent time management and organisational skills with the ability to plan effectively across competing priorities and work to tight deadlines
3. Excellent attention to detail with methodical, exacting standards of written and numerical accuracy
4. Excellent IT experience across all Microsoft packages; advanced Excel user
5. Experience of working in a customer facing environment with a knowledge of how to address complaints and service setbacks in a professional and efficient manner
6. Ability to make timely informed decisions, independently resolve problems and identify when to escalate risk
7. Ability to form professional networks and contribute positively to supporting change

Desirable criteria

1. Degree or equivalent
2. Previous HE or administrative experience
3. Experience of using student records systems (SITS) and of production of analytical reporting
4. Experience of delivering professional committee servicing

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King\’s.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our \’ How we Recruit \’ pages.

Interviews are due to be held towards beginning/ middle of November.