Senior Officer - VTQ Awarding Organisations Performance
Ofqual - Coventry, England
Full time
Salary: £32,250.00 - £37,536.00 Annually
Application Deadline: Mar 5, 2024
Ofqual is the independent qualifications regulator for England. We currently regulate 200+ awarding organisations, and approx. 11,600 certified qualifications. These include GCSEs, AS and A levels, and a broad range of vocational and technical qualifications. Regulating on behalf of students of all ages and apprentices is central to how we fulfil our statutory objectives.
For more information about what we do please visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ofqual
About the team
We have a number of permanent senior officer roles available within our Vocational and Technical Qualifications Directorate.
The roles are available within our Qualification Delivery team and our Awarding Organisation Performance team which form part of the VTQ Operations Unit.
The VTQ Qualification Delivery team is responsible for monitoring awarding organisations’ safe delivery of vocational and technical qualifications. The team regulate awarding organisations’ response to delivery risks to specific qualification types and broader areas of qualification delivery.
The VTQ Awarding Organisations (AO) Performance team is responsible for monitoring awarding organisations’ compliance, capability, and capacity. The team is responsible for understanding and regulating risks posed by each awarding organisation’s governance and portfolio, as well as managing risks to awarding organisations’ stability driven by the wider landscape.
What will the post holder be doing?
Successful applicants will have a working knowledge and understanding of corporate governance and enterprise risk management and/or qualification development and delivery, experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams and strong analytical skills.
Duties and responsibilities to include, but is not limited to:
· Contribute to the development and articulation of Ofqual’s regulatory position to awarding organisations and stakeholders where relevant.
· Support the implementation of Ofqual’s entity risk strategy by contributing to the development and use of regulatory tools and processes including, but not limited to recognition, casework, audit, investigation, and enforcement.
· Carry out detailed planning and complete timely actions to deliver regulatory activities to achieve Ofqual’s strategic priorities.
· Actively manage workload, identify priorities, seek colleagues’ input, meet deadlines and keep managers informed of progress in a timely way.