Principal Test Coordination Officer at a Federal Government Agency

Bradfield Consulting - Our Client, a newly established independent examination body saddled with the responsibility of providing a unified syllabus and conducting a qualitative examinations for candidates seeking Direct Entry admissions into tertiary institutions.

The aim of this body is to play a leading role in researching, developing and delivering assessment to Federal, State and private universities as well as interested foreign tertiary institution.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Principal Test Coordination Officer

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• The Principal Test Coordinator will be responsible for overseeing the accreditation and supervision of operations in the various Affiliate Centres.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the integrity and security of tests are maintained and that they are supervised to the required standard.
• Comply with all incident reporting and escalation procedures.
• Maintain own competencies in all of the systems and procedures - requesting training as necessary.
• Ensure personal responsibility for understanding and delivery of testing following updates and changes to client requirements / testing, as they occur.
• Periodic downloads and review of examinations and test centre schedules.
• Liaise with test developers and coordinators to put together a good test question bank
• Explain the test process to candidates and deal with other queries as required.
• Support and deliver any events and alternative test delivery processes as defined, both in permanent and temporary locations.

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to self manage
• Ability to Prioritise
• Ability to manage workload under pressure and to tight deadlines

Qualification and Experience

• A minimum qualification of a M.Sc. degree in any of the subjects offered by the examination body: Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Economics, Accounting, Physics, Government, Literature, History, Christian Religious Studies, Islamic Religious Studies, French, Yoruba, Visual Art, Geography, Business Studies, Literature in English.
• Applicant must have at least 10 years' experience as an Examiner/Moderator for an Examination body, a University system or a relevant department.
• Extensive teaching experience at a senior level
• Examination administration at a senior level

Application Closing Date
30th January, 2015.

How To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online