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Enhance your teaching with a role designed to fit around school life
Help shape a future of education where all learners can thrive
Can’t imagine leaving the classroom but want to make a broader impact on education?
There are many exciting ways you can help shape assessment reform whilst continuing to teach. These associate roles fit alongside your teaching job and offer you a way to use your experience to inform national standards without leaving the classroom.
- Gain skills and knowledge to further your career.
- Maintain the teaching role you love.
- Better support your learners now and in the future.
- Be part of a community of subject specialists shaping the future of your subject.
- Flexible hours to fit around your life.
- Support and training to help you succeed in your role.
- Know what changes are coming because you’ve helped design them.
I have worked for AQA in a wide range of roles for more than 30 years. I have gained so much from my work with AQA and have made lifelong friends with some of my colleagues who share the same passions as me: our subject and wanting the next generation to succeed. Working for AQA is the best career decision I ever made.”
Suzanne, Senior Examiner
Which roles are right for me?
Here’s an overview of some of our senior associate roles. Expand to learn more about each role type.
- Lead Developer
- Leads a team of specification and sample assessment material developers.
- Contributes to the subject assessment strategy.
- Attends key Ofqual and stakeholder meetings.
- Works across a qualification to ensure consistency.
- Developer
- Supports drafting of high-quality sample assessment materials.
- Revises materials based on stakeholder feedback.
- Assists the development and review of resources that support the specification.
- Reviser
- Reviews draft assessment items and the whole assessment.
- Advises on how the assessment aligns with the assessment strategy.
- Supports those who are producing sample assessment materials.
- Scrutineer
- Tests the draft whole assessment from the perspective of a learner.
- Ensures that the assessment is complete, valid and appropriate
- Resource Developer
- Produces resource content to meet the needs of teachers and learners.
- Can also act as a reviewer for other resources to make sure they are consistent and accurate.
- Reviewer
- Works on a variety of materials (such as external partner content, or reviewing draft specifications against the accreditation template).
- Provides feedback/amendments to make sure all materials are accurate.
- Specifics for each role will be in the role advert.
Ready for your next step?
See the vacancies we currently have available.
Questions about our senior associate roles
- How can I have a positive impact on learners beyond my own classroom?
A role in assessment reform is one way to do this. When you work in assessment, you reach thousands of learners.
You can help:
- make exams fairer
- reduce bias in assessment
- improve how subjects are taught and tested.
If you’ve ever wanted to change the system, this is a practical way to start.
- As a senior examiner, will I still be working within my subject area?
Yes. Your subject knowledge matters.
You’ll use what you know about your subject to shape how it’s assessed. Depending on the role, that might mean writing assessment materials, reviewing content or helping make sure questions are fair and clear.
You’re not stepping away from learning – you’re helping define the direction how it’s measured.
- Where are senior examiner roles based and how do they fit alongside my teaching role?
These roles are flexible and mostly remote, designed to fit around your teaching and other professional commitments. Some roles involve occasional travel – see the role descriptions on our senior examiner page for more details.
Have some questions?
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