Qualification Content Lead – Sustainability
✅ Are you a qualified accountant, with a passion for sustainability?
✅ Do you have proven knowledge, and experience working within the sustainability topic area, and keen to use your expertise in a role where you have significant impact, and play a key part in ensuring qualifications remain innovative, relevant, and future-ready?
If so, we may well have the perfect opportunity for you.
Our client
We are working with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants - the world’s most forward-thinking professional accountancy body.
ACCA has a thriving global community of 252,500 members and 526,000 future members across 180 countries. They are committed to innovation, excellence, and upholding the highest professional and ethical values.
We are proud to partner with ACCA to identify talent for thisQualification Content Lead (Sustainability)role.
The role
At ACCA, a ‘Qualification Content Lead’ (QCL), leads the development of both syllabus and assessment and ensure the external examining team deliver innovative, relevant and rigorous syllabuses and assessments for ACCA future members and any additional qualifications required by existing ACCA members globally.
In the QCL team there are various technical specialists (e.g. for tax, audit & assurance, financial reporting, management & strategy, data science & technology etc).
As the QCL for Sustainability, your technical expertise will help shape the future of the newly createdProfessional Diploma in Sustainability, ensuring ACCA continues to develop future-ready finance professionals. You will be ACCA’s subject matter expert on this topic.
This role offers the chance to shape a growing qualification, working closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure high-quality assessments, learning support materials, , and industry engagement. You will ensure the qualification reflects the latest sustainability practices and industry trends; and will play a crucial role in exam development and validation, ensuring accuracy, fairness, and high standards.
Key facts:
★ Full-time, permanent role
★ Starting salary range of up to £70,000 (outside London) - £75,000 p.a. (London)
★ACCA operate a 'digital first' approach. This role can be primarily home based (anywhere in the UK), with occasional travel to either London or Glasgow ACCA offices. NB, If you live in/locally to London or Glasgow, then you are welcomed to work from the office, if your prefer this setting.
★ Benefits package includes up to 9% employer pension contribution, private healthcare, flexi time and flexi leave.
Key Responsibilities of the role include:
- Act as the subject matter expert in Sustainability, developing innovative syllabus content and learning outcomes.
- Lead the assessment process, ensuring exams are of the highest quality, aligned with learning objectives, and meet regulatory requirements.
- Oversee the development of resources to support learners and education providers.
- Keep syllabus content up to date with industry trends, legislative changes, and emerging technologies.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including examiners and education providers, to maintain qualification excellence.
- Ensure all assessments are 100% error-free, high-quality, and delivered on time.
- Lead marking standardisation meetings, providing expert guidance on exam content and evaluation criteria.
- Represent ACCA at external meetings, conferences, and examiner standardisation events.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
- Excellent technical, and subject matter, expertise in Sustainability
- Qualified Accountant
- Experience in setting a syllabus
- Experience in developing assessment models
- Experience in developing technical content for learning products
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects, and deliver reliably to strict deadlines
- Strong relationship-building skills to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders
- Strong MS office skills – especially Word and Excel
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