Awarding & Assessment Organisation Recruitment

Awarding & Assessment Organisation Recruitment

Specialist recruitment for awarding and assessment organisations, professional bodies and organisations responsible for qualifications and standards.

Recruitment for awarding & assessment organisations

Awarding and assessment organisations operate in a highly specialised environment, with responsibility for the quality, validity and delivery of qualifications and assessments. Regulation sits alongside changing qualification requirements, new approaches to assessment and growing expectations around technology and service delivery.

Recruiting in this market requires a detailed understanding of both the sector and the roles within it. A Head of Awarding, Responsible Officer or assessment leader brings different technical and regulatory responsibilities from a commercial or operational appointment, while senior leaders need to understand how these areas work together to maintain quality and confidence in their organisation's qualifications and assessments.

Our work across the sector gives us established relationships with leaders in awarding, qualifications, assessment, quality and standards, alongside people working across operations and wider organisational functions. We also search beyond established networks where relevant experience can transfer from professional bodies, education, skills and other regulated environments.

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Trusted by organisations across the sector

Leadership Recruitment for Awarding & Assessment Organisations

Senior leaders in awarding and assessment organisations work across regulation, qualification strategy, commercial priorities and operational delivery. We recruit leaders who understand how these responsibilities connect and can lead organisations through changes in policy, technology and the needs of learners, providers and employers.

We regularly recruit
  • Chief Executives
  • Managing Directors
  • Senior Leaders
  • Responsible Officers
  • Specialist Managers
  • Consultants

Qualifications & Assessment Recruitment

Qualifications and assessment roles often require highly specific technical and regulatory knowledge. We recruit across the development, delivery and quality assurance of qualifications and assessments, including roles with responsibility for compliance and standards.

We regularly recruit
  • Awarding
  • Qualifications development
  • Assessment design & delivery
  • Product development
  • Quality assurance
  • Standards & compliance
  • Apprenticeship assessment
  • Assessment operations
  • Technology and assessment innovation

Functional Recruitment

Our work extends beyond awarding and assessment into the functions that support an organisation's commercial development and day-to-day operation. We combine our sector network with searches across professional bodies, education, skills and other sectors where relevant functional expertise can transfer.

We regularly recruit
  • Operations & service delivery
  • Commercial & business development
  • Account management and customer service
  • People & HR
  • Marketing & communications
  • Digital & technology
  • Finance
  • Partnerships
  • Programme & project leadership

Governance Recruitment for Awarding & Assessment Organisations

Boards in regulated awarding organisations carry responsibility for organisational oversight alongside the integrity and sustainability of their awarding activity. Recruitment may require sector or regulatory knowledge, while other appointments bring expertise from finance, commercial leadership, digital, education or other regulated environments.

Our governance work ranges from individual appointments to the recruitment of multiple trustees, NEDs and committee members, including repeated work with awarding organisations as their board needs have developed.

We regularly recruit
  • Chairs
  • Non-Executive Directors
  • Trustees
  • Committee Chairs
  • Committee Members
  • Independent and Lay Members

Interim Recruitment

Awarding and assessment organisations may need interim leadership during executive transitions, regulatory change or when specialist expertise is needed for a defined period. Our sector network gives us access to experienced interim leaders who already understand the demands of regulated awarding and assessment.

We regularly recruit
  • Interim Chief Executives & Directors
  • Interim Responsible Officers
  • Interim Qualifications & Assessment Leaders
  • Interim Quality & Compliance Leaders
  • Interim Functional Leaders
  • Specialist consultants
  • Qualification and assessment reviewers

Our commitment to awarding & assessment

We have worked across awarding and assessment for many years, building relationships with awarding organisations, assessment providers, professional bodies, sector organisations and the people who lead them. Many of these relationships span several appointments, from boards and executive leadership to specialist qualifications, assessment and quality roles.

Our partnership with the Federation of Awarding Bodies and our wider programme of events and content keep us closely connected to the sector. We also co-created The Professional Assessment Conference (TPAC) with Eintech, bringing assessment professionals together each year to explore the issues affecting their work and learn from others across the sector.

Selected track record

Leadership appointments

Certsure Chief Executive; Managing Director
English Speaking Board (International) Chief Executive Officer
Federation of Awarding Bodies Chief Executive
Gateway Qualifications Chief Executive Officer
Innovate Awarding Managing Director
NEBOSH Chief Executive
Skills and Education Group Chief Executive Officer
ASDAN Chief Executive Officer

Qualifications, assessment & standards

ASDAN Head of Quality & Qualifications
Energy & Utility Skills Head of EUSR; Skills & Standards Manager; Qualifications Development Lead; Assessment Manager
Gateway Qualifications Head of Quality & Standards; EPA Manager
Independent Schools Examinations Board Assessment Operations Manager
National Council for the Training of Journalists Head of Awarding
Qualsafe Awards Head of Learning & Assessment; Qualification Development Manager; Clinical Qualification Development Manager
VTCT Skills Director of Qualifications & Standards; Head of Assessment Delivery
WJEC-CBAC Director of Product; Assistant Director, VTQ & Skills Delivery

Commercial, operational & functional leadership

Association of Accounting Technicians Commercial Director
Certsure Head of Delivery & Operations; Commercial Director; Head of Product Development
Chartered Institute of Building Chief Operating Officer
Highfield Qualifications Commercial Director, Digital
London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art Head of Operations
NEBOSH Chief Information Officer; People Director
Skills and Education Group Director of HR & Governance
VTCT Skills Chief Marketing Officer

Governance appointments

Chartered Insurance Institute Professional Standards Committee Members
Energy & Utility Skills Non-Executive Directors
Gateway Qualifications Trustees
Innovate Awarding Non-Executive Directors
LANTRA Trustees
NCFE Trustees
NEBOSH Chair; Trustees; Chair of Audit & Risk
OCN London Trustees
Skills and Education Group Chair of the SEG Group; Chair of SEG Awards and BIIAB Board
VTCT Skills Trustees

Meet the team

Kristina Preston

Kristina Preston

Director | Awarding, Assessment & Professional Education

Polly Mortimer

Polly Mortimer

Senior Consultant | Awarding, Assessment & Professional Education

Rajia Alam

Rajia Alam

Principal Consultant | Awarding, Assessment & Professional Education

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