Job Title: Assessment Manager
Salary: £34,500 - £44,850
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid, minimum of 2 days a week in the office
Contract: 15 month fixed term contract
Do you aspire to be part of a role modelling team, giving millions the vital support they need to unlock their potential and enable them to succeed? Do you enjoy managing the creation and delivery of online on-demand digital testing that can directly influence learners and students around the world?
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About the role
This is an opportunity to make a significant contribution to the future success of the International Education business, at a time of considerable change.
As an Assessment Manager for English language qualifications, you will manage the production of assessment content for next-generation, customer-focused, data-driven, and automated digital assessment products. You will contribute to the production of high-quality assessment through work on MLT products from test design, materials production, live use, and marking/results.
You will apply your ELT expertise and knowledge of Assessment to the work of MLT and contribute to the production and delivery of assessments, processes and projects within Assessment and across Cambridge English.
This is an opportunity to work in an expanding innovative team at the cutting edge of test design. You will be working with teams across the company and our external partners to help create the next generation of multi-level language testing and new product innovation.
About you
You are a proactive, adaptable, and self-motivated individual, who is able to work independently and collaboratively as part of a multi-functional team. You have practical English language teaching experience and good communication and interpersonal skills. You have the ability to effectively evaluate texts and test questions and have excellent attention to detail. You demonstrate good planning, coordination, prioritisation, and decision-making skills and are able to understand and interpret statistics and data.
You have a degree (or equivalent), a recognised EFL/ESL teaching qualification, and experience and knowledge of language assessment.
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
* 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
* Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
* Discretionary annual bonus
* Group personal pension scheme
* Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
* Green travel schemes
We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Tuesday 1st April 2025, although we may close it earlier if suitable candidates are identified. Interviews are scheduled to take place w/c 21st April.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers, and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society, and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development, and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change, and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background, and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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