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Become an SFJ Awards External Quality Assurance (EQA) Associate for fire safety

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Become an SFJ Awards External Quality Assurance (EQA) Associate for Fire Safety
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Register your interest in becoming an EQA for fire safety qualifications
About SFJ Awards
SFJ Awards is the Awarding Organisation specialising in qualifications for the Policing, Fire and Rescue, Fire Safety, and Resilience sectors. Regulated in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, SFJ Awards seeks to offer the best quality and most trusted qualifications in fire and rescue.
About the Role
We are seeking applications from candidates to become External Quality Assurance Associates and would like to hear from suitably qualified and experienced professionals with significant practical experience of working within fire safety and audit assessment and quality assurance.
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The role of our External Quality Assurance Associate is to Quality Assure our Centre’s assessment and Internal Quality Assurance against SFJ Awards requirements, and to ensure our Centres continue to comply with the SFJ Awards Approved Centre requirements. The role is flexible.
Requirements
To Be Considered, Our EQAs Must Have:
- A thorough knowledge of training within the fire and rescue sector.
- Recent experience of assessing and/or internal quality assurance of fire safety qualifications.
- (Desirable) An External Quality Assurance qualification (Level 4 Award in the External Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice).


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Please see our Security EQA Requirements document for full details.
Successful candidates will have a customer-focused approach, excellent communication skills, and interpersonal skills along with the ability to meet deadlines.
Application Process
To receive a copy of the role description and application form or for an informal chat, please email your expression of interest to qateam@sfjawards.com.
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