Current EQA Vacancies
The Consultant Management team are always looking for new External Quality Assurers (EQAs) with solid quality assurance experience and current industry expertise. Should you be interested in becoming an EQA, please apply by completing the online application form for the role available:
Teaching/TAQA
We are currently recruiting for an External Quality Assurer to cover centres across the North East. Applicants must be willing to travel across this region.
Market: Learning Sub-market: Teaching and Learning support(includes schools 5329) City & Guilds Team: Associate Quality Team Territories: North East Closing Date:21/07/2017 Ref No:10027
Automotive
We are currently recruiting for an External Quality Assurer to cover centres across the UK. Applicants must be willing to travel nationally to cover these centres.
Market: Transport maintenance Sub-market: Automotive City & Guilds Team: Associate Quality Team Territories: National Closing Date:30/06/2017 Ref No:10024
Essential Skills
We are currently recruiting for an External Quality Assurer to cover centres across the North West and Yorkshire. Applicants must be willing to travel across this region.
Market: Skills for work and life Sub-market: ESOL City & Guilds Team: Associate Quality Team Territories: North West Closing Date:30/06/2017 Ref No:10026
Health and Social Care
We are currently recruiting for an External Quality Assurer to cover centres across the UK. Applicants must be willing to travel nationally to cover these centres.
Market: Health & Social Care Sub-market: Care City & Guilds Team: Associate Quality Team Territories: National Closing Date:30/06/2017 Ref No:10025
Construction (Scotland)
We are currently recruiting for a Construction External Quality Assurers to cover centres in Scotland.
Please note applicants must be based in Scotland.
Market: Construction Sub-market: Construction City & Guilds Team: Associate Quality Team Territories: Scotland Closing Date:30/06/2017 Ref No:10005
Coastguard Operations Coastal and Aeronautical
We are currently recruiting for Coastguard Operations External Quality Assurers for a specific centre.
Market: Accreditation Sub-market: Accreditation City & Guilds Team: Associate Quality Team Territories: National Closing Date:10/07/2017 Ref No:10017
Workplace Core Skills (Scotland)
We are currently recruiting for a Workplace Core Skills External Quality Assurers to cover centres across Scotland.
Market: Skills for work and life Sub-market: Employability, personal & social development City & Guilds Team: Associate Quality Team Territories: Scotland Closing Date:30/06/2017 Ref No:10014
7 vacancies found
If there are no suitable vacancies listed, please register your interest with us. We will contact you should a suitable role become available.
About the role
Our External Quality Assurers (EQAs) monitor the quality of assessments delivered by our centres, ensuring our qualifications are delivered in line with our regulatory requirements. They provide our centres with guidance, support and current industry expertise. EQAs are contracted on an annual basis and are not employed by the City & Guilds Group.
The EQA role is both a challenging and rewarding experience. You will maintain effective working relationships with allocated centres and City & Guilds. This is a great opportunity to be able to use your expertise to provide advice and support to new and existing centres, planning and monitoring quality assurance in line with City & Guilds policies and procedures.
EQAs will receive support through a range of updates, webinars and briefings, to maintain a thorough knowledge of City & Guilds products, services, and policies.
Please click here to download our EQA Task Profile
About you
You will be experienced in quality assurance with current industry expertise for the areas you will be quality assuring. Have the ability and confidence to work with web based applications (this includes submitting reports online), work independently and have good communication, prioritisation and planning skills.
To be considered for the role you must also have achieved the Assessor and Internal Quality Assurer qualifications (D32, D33, D34 or A1, V1 or TAQA units).
As a requirement, EQAs must have achieved or be working towards the (6312-41) External Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice (TAQA) or its equivalent (D35/ V2) in order to carry out centre visits. If you have not achieved these qualifications and you are successful in your application, you will be required to work towards this qualification with the support of City & Guilds. You will be required to contribute a fee of £500 towards the achievement of the TAQA qualification.
Next Steps
If you are interested in the EQA role, please apply by selecting the role advertised above, completing and submitting the online application form. You will need to outline your industry experience and list the qualifications you would like to quality assure as an EQA.
You will be required to complete a short online activity if successful at the first stage of the application process. You will also be invited to attend an introductory training session at City & Guilds, of which we will inform you of our structure, policy & procedures and regulatory requirements.
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