Chief Examiner International GCSE Chemistry 4CH1

Reference: CE/IntGCSE/4CH1

Closing date: 05 February 2024 at midnight

Chief Examiner

To take responsibility for a complete specification and be responsible to the Chair of Examiners for ensuring that the examination as a whole, meets the requirements of the specification and maintains standards year on year.

Responsibilities

• To supervise the Principal Examiners to ensure consistency across the whole qualification

• To contribute fully in the production of all the question papers and mark schemes to maintain consistent standards across all exam materials.

• To ensure that the question papers, as a whole, cover the assessment criteria as set out in the specification and satisfactorily sample the appropriate content.

• To act as Principal Examiner for at least one component of the examination, preparing materials, standardising examiners and ensuring quality and timeliness of marking throughout the exam session.

• To participate in the Awarding process, ensuring that there is comparability in the standards of awards made via different options or tiers.

• To meet critical deadlines, occasional midweek meetings will be necessary

Experience and Qualifications Required

• You will have assessment experience up to Team Leader level in the relevant qualification

• You will have experience of teaching the relevant subject and level

• You will have experience of managing people.

• You will have standard PGCE Qualification.

Competencies Required

• You will be a good communicator.

• You will have sound organisational skills.

• You will have the ability to work well under pressure.

• You will have the ability to meet deadlines.

• You will be IT literate.

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