Project Director, Educational Assessment and Research Services
The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)
Slough
- Expired
- Salary:
- In the range of £47,479 - £53,441pa depending upon qualifications and experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 12 August 2015
Job overview
Slough based
NFER is seeking to appoint a highly qualified individual to the newly created post of Project Director in our Research and Product Operations Department. The role will work with the Director of RPO and two other senior members of the team to manage our full suite of services.
These services include:
- Acting as the Foundations’ operations specialists with a particular strength in working with schools in relation to assessment and research based projects. We support NFER’s teams in sampling, administering online, paper and CATI surveys, randomised controlled trials, evaluations, test trialling and international surveys.
- Carrying out extensive work directly to external clients, managing large scale confidential test trials, sampling projects, data collections and large scale marking exercises.
- Managing a number of NFER’s suite of products and services offered to schools and other organisations. This includes the NFER’s optional tests delivery, the development and delivery of the Analysis and Marking Service, the NFER Teacher Voice Survey and the PISA Based Tests for Schools service.
A major specialism is taking large scale complex projects and turning these into practical realities, working with other external specialist teams or partners, where appropriate, as well as our own internal teams.
Our portfolio of work is growing and we need to expand our senior team to allow us to make the most of the opportunities we have, as well as making new ones, while continuing to maintain a strong focus on development and innovation.
This is a senior role that would suit an experienced manager of projects and people, who has been working in a related field. The role will include lots of variety and the opportunity to put your own stamp on the work, to develop new ideas, take forward new business and be really creative in helping NFER to meet its charitable aims.
We would be very interested to hear from applicants with experience of working in a senior teaching role in a school, and a formal project qualification such as Prince 2 would be a definite advantage.
For further details and an application form please go to the NFER website at http://www.nfer.ac.uk/about-nfer/careers/ or email hr@nfer.ac.uk.
Applicants for these posts should note that they are exempt from the ‘Rehabilitation of Offenders Act’ and will need to provide a satisfactory DBS Certificate; further details of NFER’s Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checking procedure are in the attached Further Particulars for this post.
Closing date: Wednesday 12th August 2015
NFER is an equal opportunity employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community, and a registered charity (No. 313392)
About The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)
- The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)
- The Mere, Upton Park
- Slough
- SL1 2DQ
- United Kingdom
Our research contributes to Government policy and our expertise is recognised nationally and internationally.
Ever since 1946 we have been working to equip decision makers, managers and practitioners with the most innovative thinking, practical research and responsive assessment programmes to underpin the drive towards excellence in education and lifelong learning.
We undertake around 200 research projects every year and our work spans all sectors of education, from pre-school to lifelong learning. We provide high quality, evidence-based research for policy makers, managers and practitioners. Our unrivalled experience enables us to offer a wide range of services and information sites, making NFER a one-stop-shop for anyone interested in education and educational research.
NFER owes its success to the calibre of its 260 staff, who are based in our offices in Slough, York and Swansea.
The Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation and is a registered charity (registered charity no. 313392).
Our aim is to improve education and training, nationally and internationally, by undertaking research, development and dissemination activities and by providing information services.
NFER governance
The Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation and is a registered charity (registered charity no. 313392). It is governed by a Board of Trustees and managed on a day-to-day basis by a senior management team headed by the Chief Executive, who reports to the Board of Trustees.
Mission and Vision
Mission
The overall mission of NFER is to contribute to:
Improving education and training nationally and internationally by undertaking research, development and dissemination activities and by providing information services.
We aim to do this by being the leading independent educational research institution in the UK, with a diversified portfolio of research, information and development activities that spans all sectors of education and training. Our work is especially geared to meeting the needs of policy-makers, managers and practitioners within the public system. We contribute to international educational development by undertaking projects and consultancies that reflect, and build upon, our major research interests within the UK and enable us to share our expertise with colleagues in other countries and in international organisations.
Vision
Our vision for the next three years is that we will establish ourselves more clearly as an energetic, forward- and outward-looking educational research institution that has a national and international profile. We shall have a stronger influence on both policy-making and practice and our staff will make a more visible contribution to educational debates. We shall be closer to the leading edge in terms of making best use of, and contributing towards, methodological advances. We shall be seen as the organisation to which those with educational interests first turn for research-based information and advice on education within the UK.
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