Jobs at AQA

Leads community and stakeholder engagement across education, business, teaching, youth, university, and further education audiences. Builds partnerships, delivers engagement strategies and youth voice initiatives, and manages AQA’s grant-giving partnership programme end to end, including contracts, governance, funding cycles, budgets, impact measurement, reporting, and continuous improvement.

Supports teachers, schools, and education stakeholders in delivering AQA Geography qualifications. Responsibilities include answering queries, producing subject updates, delivering training sessions, presenting at conferences, analyzing data and feedback, supporting assessment reform, managing subject-related projects, and collaborating with Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Training, and Events. The role requires regular national travel and uses Geography expertise to improve customer satisfaction, strengthen qualification delivery, and support market growth.

Provides expert HR advice to managers and colleagues on employee lifecycle and complex employee relations matters. Leads disciplinary, grievance, capability, absence, change management and TUPE processes; coaches managers; supports restructures, policy implementation and people plans; interprets HR data; maintains systems and records; and collaborates with People teams, trade unions and employee forums. The role requires strong employment law knowledge, communication skills, stakeholder management, and CIPD Level 5 or equivalent experience.

Leads planning, coordination, governance, and oversight of AQA’s Product Management programme. Develops project roadmaps, manages cross-team dependencies, risks, issues, priorities, and actions, and provides holistic progress reporting. The role ensures initiatives align with product growth objectives, remain on schedule and within budget, and achieve intended outcomes. It also requires strong stakeholder engagement, communication, process improvement, and coordination across a matrixed organisation.

Lead data engineering for AQA’s analytics team by shaping its cloud data platform, building scalable pipelines and integrations, leading data modelling, and enabling reporting, advanced analytics, and AI. The role requires SQL or Python development, governance and security alignment, stakeholder collaboration, documentation, best-practice leadership, and line management of an Analytics Engineer.

Lead AQA’s History and Politics subject area, setting plans to improve customer engagement, retention, and market growth. Manage and develop subject specialists, represent AQA at conferences and stakeholder events, build relationships with schools and subject associations, and provide customer insight to inform product development. The role requires subject expertise, teacher credibility, strategic and operational leadership, data-informed decision-making, stakeholder influence, presentation skills, and extensive national travel.

Administer and optimize Workday Adaptive Planning and related finance reporting systems. Support budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, month-end reporting, dashboards, and business insights. Translate stakeholder requirements into system solutions, troubleshoot issues, improve data quality, and identify automation and AI-enabled efficiencies. The role also supports continuous improvement projects, financial modeling, documentation, and knowledge transfer across Finance.

Lead Test Engineer responsible for designing, coding and maintaining automated test frameworks (C#/.NET), executing functional and non-functional tests, API testing, mentoring teammates, embedding quality engineering in agile teams, and driving automation strategy and continuous improvement.

Supports the resourcing, contracting, onboarding, allocation, and relationship management of examiners and moderators. Responsibilities include forecasting demand, monitoring staffing levels, managing invitations and contracts, responding to queries, maintaining databases, producing management information, processing payments, supporting contingency planning, and ensuring regulatory and quality requirements are met. The role requires accurate administration, data handling, customer service, prioritization, resilience, and continuous improvement.

Designs and governs enterprise technology solutions across applications, infrastructure, data, cloud, integration, and security domains. Provides architectural leadership, stakeholder consultancy, standards development, technology roadmaps, governance, compliance assurance, legacy modernization guidance, and horizon scanning. The role collaborates with enterprise technology, assessment technology, project teams, business stakeholders, and third-party providers to deliver scalable, secure, cost-effective solutions aligned with organizational strategy.

Lead AQA’s Business, Economics and Accounting subject area, developing plans that support customer engagement, retention, and product growth. Manage and develop subject specialists, use data to monitor impact, build relationships with schools and professional stakeholders, and represent AQA at conferences and events. The role combines subject expertise, strategic planning, operational management, customer insight, stakeholder engagement, and national travel.

Lead and deliver qualitative and quantitative assessment research and evaluations across vocational and new assessment product workstreams. Provide methodological expertise, manage projects and junior researchers, engage stakeholders, communicate findings, and represent AQA externally to influence assessment practice and policy.

Lead development of insight-driven customer propositions and go-to-market strategies for AQA's qualifications. Translate complex information into clear narratives, build business cases, influence senior stakeholders, and guide cross-functional teams to deliver measurable commercial and brand impact. Use quantitative and qualitative research to inform decisions and monitor performance across a portfolio of propositions.

Lead and develop the Copyright and Archive Team, implement a new copyright framework, build partnerships with publishers and rights holders, provide strategic oversight and risk management, programme-manage delivery to milestones, create reporting and self-serve processes, train colleagues on third-party material use, and embed copyright best practice across the AQA Group to support assessment and product development.