Assessment Content Developers are involved in the creation and fine tuning of assessments to ensure that they are fit for purpose.
Benefits of becoming an IB Assessment Content Developer
- Play a critical role within the IB examination and assessment process.
- Work within a diverse community comprising IB academic staff, teachers, and external consultants.
- Improve knowledge, skills and performance through professional development training.
Responsibilities
There are four tasks which an Assessment Content Developer can be asked to undertake for a given set of assessments.
The four tasks are outlined below with a brief introduction to the work involved with that task:
- Assessment Author – source or create content for assessments.
- External Advisor – review and evaluate the content of draft IB assessment materials to ensure they meet IB specifications.
- Standardizer – review and evaluate the content of draft IB assessment (normally via translation), for language assessments, to ensure they meet IB specifications.
- Scrutineer – complete the final assessment as if they were the student, checking questions can be answered and mark schemes are complete.
Requirements
- Applicants must have a degree or equivalent in the subject (or a related subject) for which they are applying.
- Applicants must have a minimum of one year’s experience teaching and assessing the subject (or a related subject) to students in an appropriate age range:
- MYP: 14 to 16 years of age
- DP/CP: 16 to 19 years of age.
- Applicants must have the ability to communicate, read documents and write reports in English unless otherwise stated in the vacancy details.
How to become an IB Assessment Content Developer
When IB Assessment Content Developer vacancies are available, they will appear on our Join IBEN webpage in addition to the vacancies list below. Please note, the recruitment process can take up to six months after the closing date, during which you may be asked to complete additional tasks.
Find out more about the IB Assessment Content Developer role [226 KB]
Read the recruitment policy [231 KB]
Before applying, please review our conflicts of interest information.
In alignment with the IB Academic Honesty Policy, all work and information submitted by applicants during either the application process or training needs to comply with the following statement: Applicants need to be aware that the IB does not regard any work produced—even only in part— by such tools to be their own. Therefore, as with any quote or material from another source, it must be clear that any AI-generated text, image or graph included in a piece of work has been copied from such software. The software must be credited in the body of the text and appropriately referenced in the bibliography. If this is not done, the applicant (training participant) would be misrepresenting content—as it was not originally written by them—which is a form of academic misconduct.
