Exam Grading and Content Manager Full Time NEW

Location: Remote

Working pattern: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of roles: 1

Grade: K5

Salary: £37,581 – £45,686 per annum

We are looking for a Exam Grading and Content Manager to join our team.

Role Summary

The Exam Grading and Content Manager plays a central role in protecting the quality, consistency and credibility of the Kaplan Test of English (KTE), Kaplan’s cloud-based English proficiency assessment. This role combines people leadership, grading quality assurance and content development and staff training, ensuring that scoring standards stay robust while item, content development and teacher-support projects are delivered efficiently and to a high standard.

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What You’ll Bring To The Role

This role is likely to suit someone who combines operational rigour with strong assessment judgement and a practical approach to content development:

• Degree or equivalent professional experience in English language teaching (e.g., Cambridge DELTA, Triniti TESOL Diploma), applied linguistics, language assessment, educational measurement or a related field.
• Strong experience in speaking and/or writing assessment grading within English language testing.
• Experience managing graders, assessors or other distributed teams, including freelancers working remotely.
• Experience leading standardisation, calibration or other quality assurance activity for human scoring.
• Experience contributing to item writing, item review, item revision or broader assessment content development.
• Ability to manage multiple projects at once and keep work moving in a structured, timely way.
• Confidence creating digital learning or training materials and facilitating remote workshops or meetings.
• Strong communication skills, sound judgement and the ability to work well with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Excellent administrative discipline, including tracking work completed and managing purchase order processes.
• High levels of accuracy, professionalism, confidentiality and commitment to fairness.

What We Do

Kaplan is a provider of world-leading professional assessments. In 2018, we were appointed as the independent assessment organisation for the new Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE), which we then launched in 2021. This exam is now the sole route to qualifying as a Solicitor of England and Wales and will ultimately be taken by upwards of 13,000 candidates per year.

We are part of the Kaplan group, one of the world’s largest and most diverse education and assessment providers. We operate in over 30 countries and maintain relationships and partnerships with more than 1,000 school districts, colleges and universities, professional bodies and over 10,000 businesses. Our vast breadth and scope in terms of both capabilities and assets sets us apart.

What We Believe In

Our goal is for Kaplan to be a great place to work where everybody can succeed, so we truly live and breathe our values: act with integrity, grow knowledge, empower & support, create opportunity, drive results together.

Kaplan is a global organisation whose mission is rooted in providing equal access to education and opportunities for advancement to people of all backgrounds. We believe diversity, equity and inclusion – of culture, experiences, perspectives – are paramount to creating success and opportunity in an ever-changing world. As an educator, partner and employer, Kaplan is committed to promoting an equitable world in which diverse talent can develop, advance and thrive.

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Our Values

We live, breathe and celebrate our values – they drive what we believe in, how we behave and guide us in creating a culture of success.

• Act with integrity
• Empower and support
• Create opportunity
• Grow knowledge
• Drive results together

What We Offer

As well as a competitive salary, transparent pay structures, hybrid/home working where possible, and paths for career progression, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• 28 days annual leave + option to purchase more
• Season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme
• Big discounts on Kaplan courses for you and your family
• Private medical, income protection, and life insurance
• 24/7 confidential helpline providing counselling and other support services
• Company pension contributions
• Maternity, Adoption, Shared Parental and Paternity/Partner pay which is well above statutory levels

How To Apply

To apply for this role please submit a CV along with a Cover Letter detailing how you meet the requirements of the role no later than 11pm on Monday 4th May 2026. Note, we recommend that you apply at the earliest as we reserve the right to close the role before the closing date if we have gathered a suitable shortlist.

Interview will take place online, w/c 18th May 2026.

Additional Application Information

A sponsorship licence is a legal requirement for employers seeking to hire individuals from outside the UK or those who require a work visa to work in the country. Unfortunately, Kaplan Assessments does not possess this licence at this time.

Application Support

If you require support completing your application or wish to talk to someone about the role before applying please email the Recruitment Team kaplanstaff.recruitment@kaplan.com.

Disability Confident Scheme

As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to interviewing applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the role as per the job description and any screening or testing stages. Details of how to request your application be considered under the Disability Confident scheme will be shared with all applicants upon submission of an application.

Furthermore, all applicants invited to attend interview will be given information on how to request reasonable adjustments to attend.