Chief Director: Public Examinations and Assessments

Requirements: 

The applicants must be in a possession of a Bachelor’s degree (NQF Level 7) or equivalent qualification as recognised by SAQA; 5 Years' experience at senior managerial level; Experience in the education sector; Understanding of policies governing Public Examination and Assessment; Process Competencies: Knowledge Management, Service Delivery Innovation, Problem Solving and Analysis, Client Orientation and Customer Focus, Communication skills. Core Competencies: Strategic Capacity and Leadership, People Management and Empowerment, Financial Management and Change Management. 

Duties: 

The successful candidate will be responsible for the managing and administration of the National Examination Assessment; Managing the setting of high quality Grade 12 examination question paper; Managing and Enhancing the National Computer System for examinations and assessment in the GET and FET bands; Managing and Improving the certification process relating to Senior Certificate and National Senior Certificate; Managing the administration of International Assessment relating to TIMSS, PIRLS, SACMEQ and TALIS; Managing the administration of the GEC pilot; Developing and assessment regime for the introduction of mother tongue Based Bilingual Education in the GET band; Developing high quality test items for diagnostic, summative and systematic assessment in the GET bands; Promoting the integration of formative assessment in teaching and learning in both GET and FET bands; Implementing a General Education Certificate at the end of Grade 9; Implementing a model of systemic evaluation that will provide valuable data on the performance of the system; Conducting assessment to determine the readiness of Grade R learners to grade 1; Supporting and Coordinating the implementation of the examinations across the nine provincial education departments; Improving the quality assurance of summative school based assessment in both the GET and FET bands; Improving the quality of marking in the Public Examinations; Providing accurate and reliable data on learner performance in the GET and FET bands.