Senior Officer Test Development & Quality Assurance at Kenya Institute of Management (KIM)

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate, supervise the exam setting by undertaking exam need analysis and assembling a team of examiners for the purpose of exam setting.
• Coordinate test item development by overseeing coding, typing, typesetting, and the weighting of test items for general traceability and ease in retrieval of exam papers.
• Conduct exam moderation to free the test items of intellectual skill-set errors and to generally ensure the exam is free from errors and within the learner's range.
• Proofread/coordinate proofreading to ensure that the papers are free from grammatical errors and that corrections made at exam moderation are accurately captured.
• Undertake selection of the final exam papers– [final papers (99) and other two emergency papers (198)]– by comparing relevancy of test items (approximately 12 per paper) to past four exam series in order to eliminate test item duplication, and their consequential custody.
• Undertake quality assurance of the exam process by ensuring integrity, confidentiality and security in the exam development process in a manner that portrays positive image of the KIMSOM examinations.
• Run the exam printing and distribution to various KIM Branches in a secure manner that upholds integrity of the institute.
• Participate in the graduation meetings as scheduled throughout the year, lead in the rehearsals and processions and final name calling of the qualified graduands.
• Undertake membership recruitment of at least three members in a year.
• Oversee the transition in evaluation from old to new curriculum and generally ensure compliance to government regulations/ requirement.

Knowledge and Experience Required

• Master’s degree in Education or any related field
• Four (4) years of relevant work experience
• A member of KIM

Competencies – Technical

• Knowledge on Enterprise Resource Planning
• Test development and evaluation competencies
• Knowledge of relevant professional standards
• Editing skills
• Knowledge on Research and Projects
• Report writing