Senior Assessor (Home Based)

Assessment & Standards Consultant (Home based)

Part-time 3 days per week
Salary: £24,000 (pro rata)

Roeks Avenue are delighted to be recruiting for their trusted, long-term partner on this role. Please apply via the link to be considered. Join an organisation where people come first, customer care runs deep, and you re encouraged to be yourself, make an impact, and build a career you re proud of.

Location

Home-based. You must have a private, dedicated workspace to conduct confidential virtual interviews and group sessions. Some UK-wide travel will be required and may include occasional overnight stays.

Senior Assessor Role

This role supports a professional standards and accreditation partner by delivering structured assessment and quality assurance activity. You will review evidence, interview stakeholders and evaluate service delivery, training quality and continuous improvement practice against defined benchmarks.

Relationships

Internal: Quality and standards colleagues, programme delivery, customer experience and client-facing teams.
External: Organisational leads, senior stakeholders, managers and employees participating in assessments.

Senior Assessor Main Responsibilities

Assessment & Review Activity

• Deliver assessments across accreditation, training and professional standards pathways.
• Plan and run assessment activity, mainly virtually, using evidence review, interviews and observation.
• Evaluate service culture and organisational performance against agreed criteria.
• Review improvement plans to confirm they are credible, measurable and implemented.
• Select fair and representative interview and observation samples.
• Triangulate evidence from multiple sources to reach balanced conclusions.

Reporting & Recommendations

• Produce clear, professional reports summarising findings and decisions.
• Provide practical, prioritised recommendations for improvement.
• Ensure reports are accurate, timely and meet quality requirements.

Quality Assurance & Standardisation

• Quality assure assessment and training-related activity for consistency and fairness.
• Participate in standardisation and peer calibration activity.
• Support the review and improvement of assessment tools and guidance.

Stakeholder Management & Professional Conduct

• Build trusted relationships and communicate requirements clearly.
• Agree assessment plans and timelines with senior stakeholders.
• Facilitate virtual workshops or best-practice forums as required.
• Uphold impartiality, integrity and evidence-based decision making.
• Support additional projects aligned to standards and quality.

Measures of Success

• Positive stakeholder feedback on assessment experience.
• Consistent quality of decisions and written outputs.
• Accurate and current records in relevant systems.
• Clear, actionable recommendations being understood and used.
• Completion of assessments to agreed timelines.
• Effective collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

Professional Development

You are expected to maintain your professional knowledge and assessment capability. The role may evolve to reflect programme and customer needs.

Senior Assessor Person Specification

Competencies

- Delivery-focused with a strong customer orientation.
- Clear communicator able to build credibility and trust.
- Strong planning, organisation and prioritisation skills.
- Analytical thinker with sound judgement.
- Resilient, solutions-focused and adaptable.
- Collaborative with a commitment to continuous improvement.

Senior Assessor Knowledge, Skills & Experience

- Assessment, audit or quality assurance experience.
- Facilitation and interviewing skills (virtual and in-person).
- Ability to evaluate evidence and produce professional reports.
- Strong attention to detail and record keeping.
- Confident use of Microsoft Office and virtual meeting platforms.
- Experience working with a wide range of stakeholders.

Senior Assessor Education & Qualifications

- Educated to A-level standard (degree desirable).
- GCSE (or equivalent) Maths and English.
- Recognised assessor qualification (Level 3 or equivalent).