Vacancy: Learning & Assessment Designer
| Job title: | Learning & Assessment Designer |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Up to £40,000 per annum |
| Location: | Field based |
| Contract Type: | Full-time, permanent |
The role will be responsible for ensuring that products are translated from m concept into effective learning and assessment designs, and aligned to product briefs, strategic objectives, and defined standards
Key responsibilities:
- Work in partnership with Product Managers to design and develop learning and assessment solutions that meet defined product briefs and strategic objectives
- Lead on the design of learning and assessment approaches, ensuring alignment and mapping to learning outcomes, skills frameworks (e.g. SFIA), and professional standards
- Design and structure learning and assessment pathways, creating clear, coherent and compelling progression routes across products
- Translate product requirements and stakeholder needs into learning design, assessment strategies, and development specifications
- Develop and evolve principles for modular and stackable content, supporting consistency and reusability across the portfolio
- Provide subject matter expertise in assessment design, ensuring appropriate selection of methods and alignment to intended outcomes
- Scope and commission work with learning design agencies, Subject Matter Experts and external partners
- Support and guide stakeholders through the learning and assessment design process
- Contribute to quality assurance processes including review cycles and version control
- Ensure outputs meet internal standards and regulatory requirements
- Contribute to continuous improvement of design practices and processes
- Stay informed of developments in learning design and assessment approaches
- Flexibility to adjust responsibilities as required from time to time by management.
- Continually look at ways to make improvements to systems, processes and procedures.
- Strive to live the BCS’ values and support our purpose.
Who are we looking for?
- A background in instructional design, educational psychology, learning design, or a related field is desirable.
Essential:
- Experience in learning design, instructional design, or curriculum development
- Experience designing structured learning programmes, pathways, or qualifications
- Experience of assessment design and development
- Experience of aligning learning and assessment products to skills or competency frameworks (e.g. SFIA+)
- Experience working with Subject Matter Experts and external suppliers
- Experience working with multiple stakeholders and competing requirements
Desirable:
- Experience designing stackable, modular, or micro-credential learning programmes
- Experience working within or alongside a professional body, awarding organisation, or membership body
- Project coordination or management experience (desirable)"
- Strong ability to design structured learning and assessment solutions
- Ability to think strategically about learning design at portfolio level, not just individual product level
- Ability to translate complex concepts into engaging learning narratives
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
- Ability to brief and manage external agencies and Subject Matter Experts to a high standard
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
- Analytical and problem-solving ability
- Collaborative approach across teams
- Learning design principles including outcome-based approaches
- Understanding of the awarding body and professional membership landscape, including regulated and non-regulated qualifications
- Assessment design principles and methods
- Familiarity with LMS platforms such as Moodle, assessment tools such as QuestionMark, authoring tools such as Articulate Rise/Articulate Storyline
- Familiarity with skills frameworks such as SFIA
- UK qualifications and awarding body landscape
- Trends in digital learning and modular content
- Occasional visits to clients or suppliers, off site meetings and events in the UK as required. These may require overnight stays;
- Some travel to other BCS offices as required;
- Some out-of-hours working including weekends will be required.
BCS is dedicated to providing training and development to help all staff realise their potential, and also offer a generous benefit package.
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT are committed to promoting equality at every opportunity as an employer. This statement and our policies are designed to ensure our recruitment and employment practices and procedures actively promote equality of opportunity and value diversity.
All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK upon application.
PLEASE NOTE: This vacancy may be removed before any listed closing date once a sufficient amount of applications have been received.
In the event that we receive a high number of applications for this vacancy, we may be unable to provide an individual response to every candidate, therefore if you haven’t heard back from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion.
No recruitment agencies please.
How to apply: Please apply by submitting your CV to careers@bcs.uk along with a cover note answering the following questions:
(a) Your area(s) of expertise & qualifications;
(b) Your experience and suitability for the role
We look forward to hearing from you!
What we offer
- Hybrid working
- 9-day fortnight (team/role dependant)
- Group Personal Pension Plan
- 23 days holiday per year, increasing up to 27 days with service
- Birthday leave
- Paid Christmas office shutdown
- Private Medical Insurance and/or Health Cash Plan
- Life assurance (x4 salary)
- Income protection
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Free BCS membership
- Reimbursement for professional membership (role dependant)
- Holiday buying scheme
- Financial wellbeing support
- Peer recognition scheme
- Unum Help@Hand (including access to EAP, online GP consultations, wellbeing support, retail discounts and more)
