Job Details
Job Description
The Academic Centre of Excellence (ACE) represents a transformative milestone for Advtech. Conceived as a centralised, future-focused hub, ACE brings together key aspects of the academic value chain into an integrated ecosystem that fuses academic governance, teaching innovation, digital transformation, and institutional research advancement.
Through ACE, Advtech will amplify its academic edge by leveraging the rich expertise and capabilities across its extensive network of schools and tertiary institutions. The centre will provide a unified structure for academic governance, accreditation, and quality assurance, while delivering seamless EdTech integration, advanced data analytics, academic development initiatives, and institutional research. The outcome is a stronger, smarter, and more agile academic ecosystem that benefits around 100 000 students and 9 000 academic staff across South Africa and the rest of the continent.
The purpose of the job:
The Assessment Designer and Moderator is responsible for the design, development, moderation, and quality assurance for‑ annual common assessments and examinations for Mathematics and English Home Language and First Additional languages (Grades 4–9) across Advtech Schools in South Africa and Africa. The incumbent will lead a coordinate of teachers that produces assessment papers and detailed memoranda that meet the cognitive, pedagogical, and ethical standards of the group.
The curriculum support role ensures alignment with the CAPS curriculum, IEB SAGS, Cambridge and Advtech’s international schools assessment guidelines maintaining Advtech’s academic standards, and best practice in assessment principles.
Reporting to:
The successful candidate will report to the Head: Advtech Schools Academics
Main Outputs and Responsibilities for this Position:
Assessment Design and Development
- Design and develop inclusive annual common assessments and examinations for:
- Mathematics Grades 4–9
- English Home Language Grades 4–9
- First Additional Languages Grade 4-9
- Create clear, accurate, and comprehensive memoranda, including marking guidelines and cognitive level breakdowns, supportive of LSEN.
- Ensure assessments align with:
- CAPS, IEB and Cambridge requirements
- Advtech Schools standards
- Advtech International Schools curriculum standards
- Age-appropriate cognitive‑ expectations
- Inclusion support for LSEN
- Assessment best practice
- Use appropriate assessment techniques, ensuring validity, reliability, fairness, and inclusivity.
Moderation and Quality Assurance
- Moderate assessment papers and memoranda to:
- Ensure curriculum alignment
- Verify cognitive balance
- Check accuracy and clarity
- Eliminate ambiguity, bias, or errors
- Participate in internal and external moderation cycles following Advtech protocols.
- Ensure assessments maintain consistency across schools in the Advtech network.
Collaboration and Communication
- Work with subject specialists, cluster academic leaders, and teachers across various schools.
- Provide constructive feedback on assessment drafts and assist in standardisation processes.
- Planning assessment creation sessions, workshops, and moderation meetings as needed.
Assessment Administration Support
- Contribute to the development of:
- Assessment frameworks
- Blueprints and cognitive weighting documents
- Marking guidelines and standardisation tools
- Data capturing tools
- Support schools with queries relating to interpretation and marking of common assessments.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in education (B. Ed) or Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) with a specialization in Mathematics and/or English.
- Minimum 8 years’ teaching experience in the Intermediate Phase and/or Senior Phase and school leadership experience, as an HOD or Deputy Head Academics.
- Proven experience in assessment design and moderation, including examinations, tests, rubrics, and memoranda.
- Strong understanding of curriculum assessment taxonomies (e.g., Bloom’s), and examination protocols.
- Excellent written communication and curriculum interpretation skills.
- Advanced proficiency in MS Word and digital platforms used for assessment development, including use of an LMS.
- Experience with moderation and standardisation processes (advantageous).
- Experience teaching within an independent school context (advantageous).
- Experience with data analytics and reporting.
Competencies
Technical Competencies
- Deep understanding of Mathematics and/or English and FAL language content (Grades 4–9).
- Strong curriculum mapping and assessment writing skills, across various curricula.
- Excellent command of academic language and assessment formatting aligned to IEB SAGS
- Data proficiency
- High attention to detail and accuracy.
- Strong analytical skills and pedagogical insight.
- Professional communication and collaboration skills.
- Reliability and ability to meet deadlines.
- Ethical conduct, especially regarding assessment confidentiality.
- Excellent relationship building skills to support teachers and schools.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Develop high quality ‑assessments that meet Advtech standards.
- On time delivery of papers, memoranda‑ and data.
- Positive moderation feedback from internal and external reviewers.
- Accurate data analytics and insights to remediate action in schools, and across the group
- Consistency and alignment of assessment practices across the group.
- Demonstrated quality and reliability of assessment materials.
- Positive culture and values feedback.
Advtech Group is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from designated groups.
