External Quality Assurer for Sports, Exercise and Fitness

We’re looking for an experienced External Quality Assurer (EQA) to support the delivery and quality assurance of sport and active leisure (including Pilates) vocational qualifications across our approved centres.

This role focuses on education quality assurance, assessment standards, and regulatory compliance within sport-related training provision.

You’ll work with training providers, colleges, and centres delivering sport and fitness qualifications, ensuring high standards of assessment, internal quality assurance (IQA), and learner outcomes.

• Conducting external quality assurance (EQA) activities across allocated centres
• Monitoring assessment practice, internal quality assurance (IQA), and learner outcomes
• Ensuring compliance with NCFE requirements, regulatory standards, and qualification frameworks
• Analysing centre performance data to assess risk, quality, and compliance
• Producing detailed quality assurance reports within SLA timelines
• Supporting centres with improvement planning, standardisation, and best practice

• Experience in external quality assurance (EQA), internal quality assurance (IQA), or assessment within sport, fitness and Pilates qualifications
• A recognised assessor and IQA qualification
• Experience working with vocational sport or fitness qualifications in a college, training provider, or awarding organisation environment
• Knowledge of assessment standards, regulatory compliance, and awarding organisation requirements

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Imagine a career where your contributions affect not only what people learn, but the way that learning is developed and delivered.

With over 170 years of education experience our core purpose remains at the heart of the organisation – to promote and advance learning to create a fairer, more inclusive society, making sure no learner is left behind.   

Want to know more? Take a look at our website https://www.ncfe.org.uk/  

Ready to join us and shape real change? Apply with your CV if you have the commitment to excel in this position.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare any cautions, convictions, reprimands, and final warnings that are not protected (i.e., that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). 

We're committed to building rich diversity into our workforce at all levels, to ensure that we understand and are representative of the communities and customers we serve.  

We do not discriminate against anyone due to their gender, sexuality, race, age, religion, beliefs, identity, social background, visible or hidden disability, or neurodiversity. Instead, we pride ourselves on our collaborative, vibrant and high-performance culture which embraces everyone, celebrates uniqueness, and enables everyone's voice to be heard.