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Job Title:
Product Development Officer

Department: Product Team

Location: Sheffield office with Hybrid working

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full Time (37.5 hours per week)

SFJ Awards

SFJ Awards are a regulated Awarding Organisation, delivering high quality qualifications, and custom certification for learners through Approved Centres in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. We are also an Apprenticeship End-Point Assessment (EPA) Organisation approved by the Department for Education to deliver EPA to apprentices for a growing number of apprenticeship standards in England. SFJ Awards is part of the Workforce Development Trust group.

The Workforce Development Trust

The Workforce Development Trust is a not-for-profit organisation that provides services that support employers to develop skilled, sustainable, and efficient work forces in the UK and abroad. We operate via our four brands;
Skills for Health, Skills for Justice, SFJ Awards, iCQ Awards and People 1st International, which deliver specialist, targeted skills interventions to support a variety of frontline public services.

Job summary

The purpose of this role is to develop qualifications, product assessment materials and related resources that meet regulatory, organisational and stakeholder requirements. The post holder will ensure that SFJ Awards qualifications, End Point Assessment materials and assessment and accreditation products are compliant with regulatory obligations and meet customer and organisational quality requirements.

The post holder will work under the direction of the Qualifications and Assessments Product Manager as part of a team and will be liaising with and supporting a range of customers and stakeholder bodies involved in the design of qualifications, accreditations and assessment materials aligned to the National Occupational Standards and the End Point Assessment professional standards. They will also be involved in liaising with, assigning work to and reviewing the outputs of external, subject matter experts and associates involved in development activities.

This role requires someone who thrives on being organised yet flexible enough to keep up with developments in a dynamic landscape.

Key Responsibilities:

The post holder’s key responsibilities will include:

• Managing a specific SFJ Awards sector and taking responsibility for the products within that sector.
• Working under the direction of the Qualifications and Assessments Product Manager to develop content for SFJ Awards qualifications, accreditation and assessment products.
• Liaising with colleagues and external stakeholders to ensure that developed content meets with organisational and customer quality standards including, where relevant, regulatory body requirements.
• Allocating work to and overseeing delivery by subject matter experts working with SFJ Awards on qualification content development and assessment products.

Specifically, the post holder is responsible for:

• Developing qualifications, accreditation products and assessment materials in line with SFJ Awards procedures and, where relevant, regulatory requirements.
• Developing End Point Assessment resources and assessment materials in line with SFJ Awards procedures, the relevant apprenticeship standard and where relevant, regulatory requirements.
• Following SFJ Awards procedures to review, withdraw, and extend qualifications.
• Developing and providing technical guidance to others in relation to the development and use of qualifications, assessments, and assurance products.

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