Starting Salary: £30.75 per hour

Job Type: Fixed-term (renewed annually) 

Ascentis are looking for enthusiastic and dedicated professionals to join our Subject Moderator team in the following subject areas:

• Law

• Art

Ideally, successful candidates will be available to work a minimum of 30 days per academic year (1st August to 31st July), and this can be discussed as and when you may be asked to work.

Successful candidates for this role will have experience of delivering, assessing and verifying Access to HE qualifications. 

Job duties: 

• To work to and support the Ascentis model and process of standards moderation in relation to Access subject units, working up to and including Level 3.

• To undertake the moderation and standardisation of identified subject units throughout the year.

• To work and support the Ascentis and QAA administrative policies and procedures necessary for accurate award of the qualification.

• To provide ongoing support, advice, and guidance to all allocated centres.

• To chair curriculum and standardisation meetings as required

The full job description can be found by clicking here. 

So, what are you waiting for?

If you like the sound of the role and the organisation, and you think the below attributes describe you well, then we would love to hear from you.

• A degree related to the subject area

• Demonstrable experience in adult, further or higher education 

• Qualified and experienced in teaching subject area at L3 or above

• Relevant and current subject knowledge of areas of moderation

• Ability to work as part of a team and work independently to specified standards

• Excellent communication, written, verbal, IT and interpersonal skills 

• Able to identify and express quality issues concisely

• Ability to meet deadlines

• Excellent organisational and administrative skills

• Access to a secure PC with a firewall, up to date anti-virus software, private broadband access

Further information

Closing date: 3 April 2026

Interview date: 15 April 2026 (interviews will be conducted remotely)

To discuss this post further, please contact Joanne Percival, Head of Awarding and Quality Assurance, via email at [email protected]. 

About Us

We are proud to be one of the UK’s leading educational charity groups, encompassing an awarding organisation, a provider of dyslexia intervention software and an online training organisation. Our enthusiastic people bring genuine passion and natural energy to everything that they do and through their infectious energy they transform the lives of thousands of people each year through the power of education. It has never been a more exciting time to join The Ascentis Group as we continue our journey of growth across the UK and overseas.

We are market leading in the education sector and the specialist areas we operate within, maintaining the #1 provision for ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) and Access in the UK. We are based in Lancaster but have a national reach and hold top positions in all areas we operate within and have a dominant market share in London. We recently won two awards at the FAB 2024 Awards - Innovation of the Year and Awarding Organisation of the Year.

The Ascentis Group is made up of brilliant people, unique in terms of background, personality, characteristics, experience and skill. We value our people for the differences they bring to the table and believe this diversity is powerful. We are an equal opportunities employer, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

To find out what our employees have to say about working at Ascentis watch the video found here.

Benefits of working as Ascentis:

• Competitive pension benefits, including a salary sacrifice scheme

• Access to state-of-the-art office and break facilities, including pool table, Xbox, outdoor seating, dressing room (with access to hair dryers, straighteners, airers, shower facilities), Harry Potter reading room, employee library and more

• Free parking, electric charging points, locked bike storage shed

• Free eye tests

• Annual flu vaccination

We reserve the right to close the job vacancy early if we find an appointable candidate or receive a high volume of applicants. 

Do you like the sound of Ascentis, but think your skills might suit another role?

We also have other vacancies available. Take a look at our website for more! www.ascentis.co.uk/jobs