Join our team as a Freelance External Quality Assurer (EQA)
Focus Awards is a progressive and innovative Awarding Organisation. Established in 2011, Focus Awards promotes, subscribes to and maintains three core values:
Honesty
We take pride in our honesty and transparency, which informs all our dealings with staff, stakeholders and the general public.
Integrity
We commit to the tenets and principles of integrity in all its forms. We do what we say we will do, when we say we will do it, and hold all our people to account.
Fairness
We treat everyone the way we would like to be treated. We put people before profit. We do this regardless of background, ethnicity, cultural heritage, beliefs, colour or creed.
These values underpin everything we do, and we back them with an absolute commitment to excellence.
Focus Awards draws on more than 80 years’ combined Awarding Organisation experience and expertise amassed by its founders. Our people come from a diversity of backgrounds, including the health and fitness sector, social services, and academia. Commerce and industry, recruitment, the Paralegal profession and the Armed Forces are also represented.
With a growing number of approved centres, we are looking for qualified, experienced, freelance EQA’s across the UK to join our team. We offer competitive day rates plus travel expenses
Desired Qualifications
Level 4 Award in the External Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice
EQAs must hold a minimum of 3 years recent and relevant experience in an EQA or similar role, plus occupational experience at a higher level than that which they will be undertaking EQA activities for.
Level 4 Certificate in Leading the External Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice would be desirable but is not essential.
Requirements
- Access to a laptop / computer
- A full, clean UK driving license with access to a vehicle
- Ability to travel to various locations across the UK as required
Skills
- Good ICT skills including Word Processing Software – training on our Qualification Management System will be provided to successful candidates.
- Strong organisational skills
- Excellent planning skills
- Effective communication skills
- Good decision maker and problem solver
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
Region | Sector of Expertise |
Greater London | Sports, Leisure and Recreation
Service Enterprise Health and Social Care Administration Teaching and Lecturing Child Development and Wellbeing Preparation For work Direct Learning Support Business Management |
South East | Sports, Leisure and Recreation
Service Enterprise Health and Social Care Administration Teaching and Lecturing Child Development and Wellbeing Preparation For work Direct Learning Support Business Management |
South West | Sports, Leisure and Recreation
Service Enterprise Health and Social Care Administration Teaching and Lecturing Child Development and Wellbeing Preparation For work Direct Learning Support Business Management |
West Midlands | Sports, Leisure and Recreation
Service Enterprise Health and Social Care Administration Teaching and Lecturing Child Development and Wellbeing Preparation For work Direct Learning Support Business Management |
North West | Sports, Leisure and Recreation
Service Enterprise Health and Social Care Administration Teaching and Lecturing Child Development and Wellbeing Preparation For work Direct Learning Support Business Management |
North East | Sports, Leisure and Recreation
Service Enterprise Health and Social Care Administration Teaching and Lecturing Child Development and Wellbeing Preparation For work Direct Learning Support Business Management |
Yorkshire and the Humber | Sports, Leisure and Recreation
Service Enterprise Health and Social Care Administration Teaching and Lecturing Child Development and Wellbeing Preparation For work Direct Learning Support Business Management |
East Midlands | Sports, Leisure and Recreation
Service Enterprise Health and Social Care Administration Teaching and Lecturing Child Development and Wellbeing Preparation For work Direct Learning Support Business Management |
East of England | Sports, Leisure and Recreation
Service Enterprise Health and Social Care Administration Teaching and Lecturing Child Development and Wellbeing Preparation For work Direct Learning Support Business Management |
How to Apply
Please send your CV and covering letter to info@focusawards.org.uk with the subject ‘Freelance External Quality Assurer (EQA)’ and we will be in touch.