Online Assessment Senior Project Officer

As part of the University’s Assessment Strategy, the University of Warwick is implementing a new Online Assessment platform (Warwick Assessment System – WAS). This post is an exciting opportunity to be at the heart of in how students are assessed, supporting academic departments and professional service groups as Warwick diversifies its forms of assessment, as part of the Education Strategy.

Whilst the post will be based within Student Administrative Services, the role will be cross-institutional, working with the Information & Digital Group (IDG), Online Assessment Project Team, academic and professional services colleagues at all levels. You will be pivotal to assessing and delivering to the needs of academic departments and students, in order for them to operate digital examinations assessments in an effective and orderly manner. This applies to both remote and on-campus digital exams.

Within the Education Group there is variety, a great working environment, and an opportunity to contribute significantly to improving the student experience and wider University success. In return for your commitment and drive, we will offer you rewarding staff benefits, flexible working and a range of training and development opportunities.

For informal enquiries, please contact Andrew Higgins (Andrew.Higgins@warwick.ac.uk) .

Achieving success in the role will require a comprehensive skillset to negotiate competing stakeholder demands, deliver planning, training, support and guidance at all levels. This will be combined with personal curiosity, tenacity, flexibility and the capacity to work independently or as part of a team.

Student Administrative Services comprises three major service areas:

Awards ceremonies and Enrolment

ACE are responsible for delivery of the University’s summer and winter awards ceremonies, supporting all aspects of planning and delivery, as well as the post event despatch of certificates for those students who do not attend. The Team also manage alumni queries and requests relating to digital certificates and physical authorised/replacement certificates

The second major area of responsibility is planning and co-ordinating central enrolment, re-enrolment and course registration. The Team co-ordinate with a wide range of stakeholders (IDG, Immigration and Compliance, the Welcome Team etc) to ensure students can complete enrolment tasks.

Student Records & Business Operations

Student Records

The principal work of the Student Records Management Team is to ensure that SITS student records contain accurate data for all Warwick students studying accredited courses. Data is maintained in accordance with University Regulations and in compliance with the requirements set down by external bodies. The Team are responsible for managing the eVision workflow processes (Student Records Online) through which

a range of key student processes are administered.

Student Records also manage production of the Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR) for undergraduate students. Transcripts for postgraduate students are produced in liaison with the Awards Ceremonies and Enrolment Team.

The increasingly complex student lifecycle and range of student requests, to interrupt or restart studies, means that the Team increasingly provide support to colleagues throughout the University in understanding student-facing Regulations and requirements.

Business Operations

This area covers validations and assurance controls to ensure data integrity, supporting internal operations for external reporting and continuous improvement of systems and processes across the whole of Student Administrative Systems. The team is also the first point of contact for all matters concerning Degree Apprenticeship students and students on collaborative courses.

MODULES, MARKS AND ASSESSMENT

The Modules, Marks and Assessment Team is responsible for organising over one thousand on-campus and online examinations annually. These centrally scheduled examinations are sat by over fifteen thousand students across the University each year.

The team manages module approval and module registration data, Alternative Exam Arrangements and the administration of UG and PGT external examiners. In addition, the team provides guidance and support around the processing of marks data.

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Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be ‘world leading or internationally excellent’**.

You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy and determination to succeed.

• QS World University Rankings 2024

** Research Excellence Framework 2021

To apply please complete your essential personal details and attach a CV and cover letter by 11.55pm on the closing date of 3rd April 2024. Please ensure your CV includes your most recent employment experience along with any additional relevant experience and education history. Your cover letter should detail how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for this post.

To streamline our hiring process, we kindly request that all candidates submit their applications through our official website. This ensures that all applications are received in a uniform format and can be processed efficiently by our HR team.

The interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, 30 days holiday plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.

We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer.

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Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.

We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation.

The University currently holds a Race Equality Charter Bronze Award, Athena Swan Sliver Award and a Disability Smart Bronze Award. The University of Warwick is also one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University Alliance.

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