External Moderator X15

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The opportunity

UAL Awarding Body is seeking to recruit a number of External Moderators within Creative Media, Art and Design, Fashion Business and Retail, Extended Project Qualification and Music Production and Performance in order to consolidate our quality assurance specialism in this area. UAL Awarding Body designs and awards qualifications in creative subjects from Levels 1 to 4, across over 200 FE Colleges and 6th Forms.

Our External Moderators monitor and quality assure the assessment decisions made by approved centres for specific qualifications across all academic levels. With detailed subject-specific knowledge and assessment expertise, they are responsible for carrying out virtual external moderation (sampling) activity, monitoring the quality and consistency of assessment decisions within and across approved centres, and confirming whether the award of UAL qualifications is justified and can be endorsed. External Moderators assist UAL with complying with the Ofqual General Conditions of Recognition.

External Moderators are a core member of the Academic Standards team and act as a key link between the UAL Awarding Body, the Senior External Moderators, and its approved centres. As such they are expected to maintain the highest professional standards, always promoting the UAL Awarding Body’s brand and ethos. They are required to manage confidential information with integrity and work effectively with staff at all levels both internally at UAL Awarding Body and externally at approved centres. The external moderation activity takes place between May and July and may require occasional travel within the UK if meetings are face to face

About you

As an External Moderator you will have appropriate qualifications within the relevant subject specialism and be educated to at least degree level.

You will be an experienced teacher and internal verifier with a working knowledge of UAL Awarding Body qualifications within the creative arts at levels 1-4. 

You will have current knowledge and or experience within the creative arts sector and a sound understanding of assessment, verification and moderation systems and procedures within the Further Education sector.

Please apply early as the application closing date maybe held earlier should sufficient applications be received.

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact, Twinkle Brahmbhatt, Resourcing Adviser via email at RKEEstaffrecruitment@arts.ac.uk 

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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