Internal Verifier (Diploma Level 4)

Position summary

Role details

• Department: Academic Quality Assurance.
• Employment type: Full-time, project-based for 12 months.
• Location stated in the description: United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi/Sharjah).
• Regulatory alignment: NQC and SQC standards and QFEmirates Level 4 descriptors.

Qualification and assessment verification

• Review unit specifications, learning outcomes, and assessment criteria against QFEmirates Level 4 descriptors and NQC/SQC templates.
• Check that assignments, practical observations, knowledge tests, and portfolios cover all criteria at the right level without gaps or duplication.
• Ensure assessment methods are valid, reliable, fair, and safe for security contexts, including scenario- and simulation-based assessments.
• Sign off assessment instruments and marking schemes before use; communicate findings and track corrective actions.
• Sample assessor decisions across units, assessors, learners, methods, and sites using a documented strategy.
• Verify learner evidence and assessment judgments; observe assessors and record outcomes.
• Check assessment records, learner tracking sheets, and result submissions before external verification.

SME coordination and assessor support

• Work with SMEs to ensure unit content, assessment tasks, and marking schemes reflect current security-sector practice and NQC/SQC specifications.
• Route technical queries to relevant SMEs, record input, and ensure revisions are reflected before sign-off.
• Invite SMEs to standardization meetings when technical benchmarks need agreement and record outcomes.
• Lead assessor and trainer standardization meetings, induct new assessors, and identify development needs and support or CPD plans.

Compliance, records, and authority

• Maintain sampling plans, verification reports, observation records, standardization minutes, and action logs in required formats.
• Prepare for, host, and follow up NQC/SQC external verification visits and audits; close actions raised.
• Keep assessment and verification policies current; monitor appeals, malpractice, and reasonable-adjustment cases under policy.
• Report verification outcomes, risks, and trends monthly to the Programme Director.
• Do not verify assessments personally delivered or marked; declare conflicts and hand samples to another verifier.
• May withhold sign-off for non-compliant instruments or results, require reassessment or remarking, and escalate suspected malpractice or systemic issues.

Qualifications and experience

• Essential: bachelor's degree in education, security studies, policing, law, or a related field.
• Essential: recognized internal verification/internal quality assurance qualification plus a recognized assessor award.
• Essential: at least 3 years assessing or verifying Level 3–5 vocational qualifications and hands-on experience with NQC- and/or SQC-accredited UAE programs.
• Desirable: master's degree, external verifier or lead IQA award, and experience in security, policing, emergency services, or simulation-/VR-based assessment.
• Essential: working knowledge of QFEmirates descriptors, NQC approval and verification requirements, and SQC assessment specifications.
• Desirable: familiarity with international security-sector qualifications for benchmarking.

Language and other requirements

• Essential: professional written and spoken English and Arabic for learner evidence and assessor records; bilingual Arabic/English is desirable.
• Essential: eligible to work in the UAE and a clean security clearance record.
• Desirable: membership in a professional assessment or quality assurance body.
• Competencies include evidence-based judgment, standards fluency, constructive feedback, planning, integrity, confidentiality, and digital record competence.

Working relationships and performance measures