OCR SR Cambridge Advanced Nationals (AAQ) Product Support Developers for IT and Computing

Are you a creative teacher who makes engaging materials for your class?

OCR are currently seeking Product Support Developers for the Level 3 Cambridge Advanced National (AAQ) Computing: Application Development and IT: Data Analytics specifications.

If you are already working with Cambridge Assessment you will have an account and an Assessment Specialist ID, so please use the following link to update your profile and search for new opportunities: https://asportal.cambridge.org/irj/portal

We are looking for education experts like you to join our team of Product Support Developers. As one of our developers you will use your knowledge, experience and creativity to help us deliver our support packages for new qualifications, providing teachers with high quality resources and guidance. You will have appropriate subject and assessment expertise within the UK education system, and have the ability to produce and revise material to a specified brief. You will be aware of the current educational climate and be familiar with new and evolving developments in your subject.

Using a brief provided for each task, you would write, adapt and submit support resources or be involved in reviewing existing support resources.

We have ongoing product support development opportunities. Tasks would vary in the length of time required, however we would always look to be flexible with deadlines to accommodate this work around your existing commitments. The brief will provide a direction for the content, as well as a preferred format, with the aim of creating high quality support for teachers at different stages of the qualification delivery. The support resources may include, for example, professional development training materials, schemes of work, candidate style answers, sample assessment materials, e-learning course content, recorded video presentations, or other teacher support content.

The ability to use IT confidently and effectively is essential to this role (this includes Microsoft packages such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint). Developing and revising resources can be carried out at home and remuneration will be set on a task by task basis. You will need to use your own IT equipment to complete the tasks.

All applicants for this role are required to complete the associated exercise to demonstrate your suitability for the role. This can be found below:

Task:

Produce an engaging 1 hour lesson plan to cover one learning objective from the examined component of the AAQ Level 3 subject of your choice. This should be suitable for another teacher to deliver, particularly a non-specialist/newly qualified teacher. The lesson plan should include resource ideas. The suggested resource ideas could be hyperlinks/external activities or suggestions for activity creation, suitable for a Level 3 qualification (e.g. links to websites, videos, resources you think are suitable). There is no requirement to create activities/resources as part of this application task.

The Profile for this task provides details about the specific activities involved.

Please note, if you are involved in the production of live material you cannot undertake training development or training delivery tasks for OCR.

The closing date for applications is 05 January 2025.

We require two references in support of your application. Please forward the reference request form to your chosen referees and ask them to submit to senior.recruitment@ocr.org.uk by the above closing date. Please note all successful applications may be subject to right to work checks.

Please click ‘apply’ and ensure that you fully complete all the information required before submitting your application. Selection will be based upon the information provided and will take place after the closing date. We will notify you of the outcome within three weeks of the closing date.

If you require any further information, please feel free to email us at senior.recruitment@ocr.org.uk.