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Head of Assessment and Examination Services

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
Grade 7, £42,036 - £50,132 per annum, inclusive of £3,500 per annum London Allowance
Closing date
27 Sep 2019

Job Details

An exciting opportunity has arisen the examinations and assessment area of Academic Services to lead this new team with a growing remit for providing professional assessment and examinations services across the university. The Head of Assessment & Examination Services is a key operational service management role within the Education & Students Function, supporting the delivery of a world-class student experience and the King’s Education Strategy.

The role holder will set and monitor service standards and key performance measures to ensure the delivery of a comprehensive student-centred service and drive a culture of continual service improvement that pre-empts and meets the needs of the university and our students.

The role holder is responsible for the management of the university’s assessment and examinations service – currently delivering 2600 examinations for 95,000 candidatures during the three main assessment periods of January, May and August and including examinations held in central London, overseas and by King’s faculties and institutes outside of the main assessment periods.  The service is currently undergoing an end to end review and the role holder will be instrumental in formulating the shape and remit of the future service.

This is a new role that has been necessitated by a forthcoming review of the service, and one that will be leading on an end to end service review for the examinations process in its entirety in the coming months.

 This is a great opportunity for someone wanting to lead the transformation and development of this vital area of university business. 

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King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
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