It is the centre’s responsibility to ensure that only staff with relevant expertise and occupational experience are used in the delivery, assessment and internal quality assurance processes, in accordance with specified vocational experience/qualification requirements as set out in the published qualification specification.
In a large, multi-site centre it may not be feasible for a single IQA to quality assure all qualifications. In this case, it is acceptable to appoint a Lead IQA. The Lead IQA is responsible for working closely with the IQAs to apply assessment requirements consistently across the sites.
The role of the Lead Internal Quality Assurer is to ensure that:
Ensure consistent standardisation and sampling is occurring across the centre
Check each IQA’s marking and sampling and address any issues if there are discrepancies
Monitor outcomes from each IQA’s standardisation and sampling activities
Ensure standardisation and sampling records are kept and made available to Gateway Qualifications if required.