Job title:

Internal Quality Assurance Assessor - Firefighter

Job Description:

Shaping tomorrow’s talent as an Internal Quality Assurance Assessor for the Fire Service College:

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an experienced firefighter to join our knowledgeable and friendly team at the Fire Service College as an IQA assessing the quality of the coursework being marked for the wide variety of courses that we run.

Reviewing the coursework submitted and the grades awarded you would be responsible to ensure that cousework is being assessed currently and is compliant with the industry standards.

What you will be doing: 

• Maintain and monitor progress against the Internal Quality Assurance Strategy

• Plan internal quality assurance activities to ensure the Fire Service College meets the awarding / accreditation bodies standards, supporting the FSC’s ambition to deliver consistently high quality across all our programmes.

• Develop and support Assessors by monitoring the activities of the Assessors, ensuring they have time, resource and experience to carry out assessment duties and taking appropriate action when they do not.  In order to properly monitor each Assessor an IQA has responsibility for they need to ensure that on an annual basis they monitor the Assessors in all assessment methods and update the sampling plan.

• Monitor the activities of the Assessors, ensuring they have time, resources and experience to carry out assessment duties and taking appropriate action when they do not.

• Ensure that the Learning Delivery Team remain up-to-date with the relevant requirements of the qualification standards being delivered across the College.

• Working with the Training Quality Assurance Manager, maintain communication with the Accredited Centre and act in strict accordance with the Centre’s guidelines, policies and procedures in order to manage the quality of assessment process

What we are looking for: 

• Must be an experience Firefighter

• Demonstrate occupational competence and current understanding of the Fire and Rescue Service.

• Experience of assessing internal quality assurance

• Current working knowledge and experience of best practice in assessment and quality assurances.

• Hold one of the following assessor qualifications or their recognised equivalent, The Level 3 Award in Assessing Competence in the Work Environment, The Level 3 certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement, A1 Assess candidate performance using a range of methods or D32 Assess candidate performance and D33 Assess candidate using differing sources of evidence

• Hold one of the following internal quality assurance qualifications or their recognised equivalent, The level 4 Award in Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice, The level 4 Certificate in Leading the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practices, V1 Conduct Internal quality assurance of the assessment process or D34 Internally verify the assessment process

About Fire Service College

At the Fire Service College, we’re protecting tomorrow, today. Our organisation is transforming fire and rescue training internationally, and equipping firefighters with the best possible skills and knowledge of the latest techniques. Our teams have helped the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham to train their security staff for emergency scenarios, and helped Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service to increase applications from women and ethnic minorities. Join us and discover better as you support the future of fire and rescue.

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive basic salary

• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave

• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice

• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more

• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology

• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform

• At the Fire Service College, you will also benefit from an onsite gym, restaurant and bar alongside accommodation available to be utilised by anyone not local to the area working at the college in this role

You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. You’ll be joining a network of 55,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

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Equal Opportunities

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. During the application process, you’ll be asked to share your personal characteristics and data with us. This helps us understand our audience so we can make sure we are doing everything we can to attract a diverse range of people and ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inclusive.