Assessment Manager (Fixed Term Contract)
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About the Role
We’re looking for an Assessment Manager to bring professional expertise across the full assessment development lifecycle by supporting the creation, review, and delivery of high‑quality assessment materials across multiple products and projects. Reporting to the Head of Assessment Development and Delivery, you’ll apply recognised professional methodologies and established procedures, exercising sound judgement to produce robust assessment items, stimulus texts, and related materials that meet specifications and quality standards.
In this role, you’ll review new content (items, tasks, texts) for quality, suitability, and alignment to frameworks; compare human‑authored and AI‑generated materials using consistent criteria to assess validity, reliability, appropriateness, and linguistic accuracy; and provide clear, actionable feedback to writers, editors, and external contributors. You’ll oversee end‑to‑end development of selected items and texts, ensure quality assurance at every stage, and support team operations by preparing content, administering workflows, conducting quality checks, and producing documentation and reports. You’ll analyse and resolve non‑routine issues in item development, identify risks in AI‑generated content and when escalation is needed, clarify ambiguous information, and recommend improvements to processes and approaches.
You’ll thrive here if you’re organised, detail‑driven, and comfortable communicating fairly complex assessment and linguistic concepts to varied audiences. You plan and manage your own workload to agreed targets, are accountable for the accuracy and impact of your work, and contribute to continuous improvement. If you bring experience in assessment development, strong editorial judgement, and an evidence‑based approach to evaluating both human and AI‑generated materials, we’d love to hear from you.
This is a 6‑month fixed term contract. We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
- Professional experience in assessment, item development, publishing, education, or a related field.
- Ability to critically evaluate both human written and AI generated assessment content using consistent, evidence‑based criteria.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, especially when addressing non routine issues.
- Clear, precise written communication and an ability to tailor information for different audiences.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent tasks independently.
- High attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy and quality.
- Ability to apply established procedures, frameworks, and methodologies consistently.
- Experience collaborating with external writers, contributors, or vendors.
- Knowledge of assessment design principles or educational measurement.
- Familiarity with workflow systems or content tracking tools.
We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3‑days) and a 35‑hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.
This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.
Secondments
When applying for a secondment, you must discuss the opportunity and gain approval with your line manager/department in advance of submitting an application.
In the region of £40,000 dependent on skills and experience
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