Temporary external teacher assessment moderator vacancies

Information: Temporary Teacher Assessment External Moderator Services

We will shortly be inviting bids for temporary external teacher assessment (TA) moderators to visit a sample of local authorities (LAs) on behalf of Department for Education, Standard and Testing Agency.

We are planning for the specification to go live from 3 February until 23 February 2020 on DfE's e-procurement system, Jaggaer.

Moderation visits take place each year in May and June to review LAs TA moderation processes for:

the early years foundation stage profile

key stage 1

key stage 2

Action: register with Jaggaer as soon as possible

To tender for this work, you will need to register with Jaggaer before the competition closes and within the time frame for submitting a bid.

The link for supplier registration and log in is: https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html

This is also published on the 'Procurement at DfE' GOV.UK page to advise suppliers of the DfE system upgrade.

All support to suppliers is available from Jaggaer directly. The Jaggaer support details are on the supplier log in page as follows:

Phone: 0800 069 8630 or +44 203 608 4013

E-mail: [email protected]

The Authority administers all procurements electronically via the Department for Education e-procurement Solution portal (Jaggaer).

No hard copy documents will be issued and all communications with the Authority (including final submission of Tender responses) must be conducted via Jaggaer. To ensure all communications relating to this procurement are received, potential suppliers must ensure that the point of contact they nominate in the Jaggaer portal is accurate at all times. Access to the Jaggaer portal is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year anywhere in the world via the internet unless notified otherwise by the Jaggaer portal.

If you have already completed both registration steps, please ensure you can still access Jaggaer

Please note our competition will be a two-part process where bidders have to pass a mandatory requirements section in order to complete part two of the bidding process.

The mandatory requirements we require when applying for these vacancies are:

a good understanding of EYFS, KS1 or KS2 teacher assessment (TA)

knowledge of the EYFS, KS1 or KS2 curriculums and the relevant following guidance:

Early years foundation stage profile: 2019 Handbook

2019/20 teacher assessment frameworks at the end of KS1

2020 KS1 teacher assessment guidance

2019/20 teacher assessment frameworks at the end of KS2

2020 KS2 teacher assessment guidance

demonstrable experience of EYFS, KS1 or KS2 moderation (within the last 3 years)

ability to observe and scrutinise practices against a set of criteria and give detailed feedback

for the SEM role, a requirement to demonstrate experience of team leadership, mentoring and management including quality assurance activities, team time manage