2. Looking Forward with Appointee Management Anne Andrew Recruitment and Training Manager

3. Aims of the session To provide an overview of the forthcoming appointee recruitment opportunities for your teaching staff To confirm the nomination process for Year 2 of Verification To promote the benefits of having appointees and nominees in your school teams

4. Who are Appointee Management? Provide the business with fully trained appointees to meet business needs Attract and retain high performing appointees Manage the appointment process, associated systems and communications with appointees Manage selection criteria, contract specifications and Key Performance Measures for all appointee roles Maintain a fee structure which is fair and consistent across appointee types

5. Recruitment Process Adverts are posted on web-site with associated links to information need to make an application Interactive application form with link to contract specification and selection criteria

6. CFE Appointee Opportunities Recruitment for New CFE Opportunities starts 25 August 2014 Opportunities at all qualification levels All information on line at www.sqa.org.uk/cfevacancies

7. CFE Appointee Opportunities Principal Assessors133 Senior Team Leaders35 Team Leaders265 Item Bank Leaders6 Item Writers574 Item Checkers474 QPR63 QPV42

8. Appointee Opportunities Senior appointee roles require a reference from Head of Centre Where release is required this will be obtained at the time of application and is not retrospective Markers still require one day release for marker meetings

9. Appointee Opportunities Marker recruitment is on going all year Focus on Higher markers Mark at the level they are currently teaching Aim to create ‘reserve marker lists’ Markers can choose to mark specific papers E-marking in new qualifications

10. Nominee Recruitment for Year 2 During June 2014 - commence issue of Nominee Lists to Local Authority contacts (follow up by CFE Customer Support Managers) Includes Team Leaders, Senior Team Leaders and Principal Verifiers By Exception - Request removal of Nominees no longer teaching or no longer with the Local Authority

11. Nominee Recruitment for Year 2 Return spreadsheets by end of July 2014 at latest Provide details of replacements – by exception Use ‘additional nominees’ tab for requesting additional nominees

12. Nominee Recruitment for Year 2 No on-line processing for LAs this year Access SQA Connect to see changes later in the year Promote ‘Save the Date’ for Nominee training events

13. Nominee Training for Year 2 Understanding Standards for National 1 and 2 and National 3 – 5 Tuesday 23 September 2014 Care and ESOL will be held on Friday 3 October 2014

14. Nominee Training for Year 2 Understanding Standards for Higher Monday 10 November 2014 Understanding Standards events support nominees who in turn support centres – Is your centre getting the benefit?

15. Nominee Training for Year 2 2 plus 2 days training for nominees Understanding Standards events prior to Round 1 Verification in February 2015 and Round 2 Verification in May 2015

16. Nominee Opportunities Principal Verifiers52 Senior Team Leaders27 Team Leaders261 Nominees deployed999

17. Benefits………… Professional development for the individual Improved skills to support students in the teaching environment Confidence to support colleagues both formally and informally Satisfaction in see students result improve Satisfaction is meeting centre verification requirements

18. Benefits……… Do you know which departments don’t have Appointees or Nominees involved in SQA’s development, assessment or quality assurance of our National Qualifications? Have you seen the list for your centre?