CMS Advisor

Role overview

CMS and RAS governance

• Administer and maintain the Rail Automated System as the official competence platform.
• Keep competence, assessment, training, and qualification records complete, accurate, traceable, and aligned with approved standards.
• Monitor validity, renewals, expiries, and corrective actions; maintain document control.

Assessment and training

• Review assessment evidence and support verification against approved standards and procedures.
• Coordinate assessor moderation and standardisation, and escalate assessment or verification issues.
• Administer training schedules, nominations, attendance, results, evidence, and validity records; monitor compliance and gaps.

NVQ and quality assurance

• Conduct NVQ assessments using evidence that is valid, authentic, current, sufficient, and reliable.
• Provide timely learner feedback and conduct internal verification to support consistent, fair, valid assessment decisions.
• Identify improvements to assessment quality, learner outcomes, training administration, and compliance.

Stakeholders and reporting

• Provide competence data, reports, status updates, certification information, analysis, and evidence for audits, reviews, and governance forums.
• Guide assessors, verifiers, training supervisors, instructors, line managers, and system users on approved processes.
• Recommend improvements to standards, assessment processes, system controls, and reporting based on evidence and feedback.

Education and qualifications

• A degree in any discipline is listed as a qualification requirement.
• Professional qualification with recognised professional institution membership and internationally recognised assessor and verifier awards are listed.
• An assessing qualification is preferred; a recognised adult education qualification or equivalent is described as ideal.

Experience

• Five years of experience in a quality control environment and five years in a training environment are preferred.
• Experience in metro, rail, transport, engineering, infrastructure, or another safety-critical environment is listed.
• NVQ or awarding body administration experience is listed.

Skills and training

• Fluent written and spoken English; strong Excel, reporting, data-quality, coordination, document-control, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to handle confidential employee data and interpret procedures and standards.
• Power BI or similar reporting tools, process mapping, audit, quality assurance, or system administration training are listed.