How a career in housing education could be your next development opportunity

As the sector’s leading provider of housing qualifications, CIH are well placed to help professionals develop further in their career and take a step into educating future housing professionals in the sector.

As well as teaching there are other careers available, both part time alongside your day job, or full time as a next career step, in qualification assessing. The sort of person who might want to become an assessor is someone with an eye for detail, who has a strong understanding of the housing sector, has worked as a housing professional for several years and is confident in their knowledge, skills in policy and practice.

There are three main roles, which we outline in a bit more detail below. If you’re already interested and want to know more about how to start your development to becoming an assessor, you can reach out to a study centre who offers assessor training.

Study centre assessor

Within the education sector you have an awarding organisation who create and award the qualifications (for example CIH awarding organisation), and a range of study centres who carry out the teaching and examinations of the qualifications (for example study centres).

As a study centre assessor, you will work directly for one of the study centres teaching the housing qualification and will be responsible for marking assessments against qualification assessment criteria and learning outcomes.

This can be done alongside your day job or could be a full-time career and will give you the satisfaction of knowing you are helping other professionals get qualified. Your own organisation may even see this work as continuous professional development and allow you to do it within your working day.

External quality assurer (EQA)

At CIH we are always on the lookout for external quality assurers. They are responsible for checking that our study centres are meeting our high qualification standards. The role entails checking the work of the study centre assessors with a sample of their work.

To get into this type of role normally you would have the relevant assessor qualification alongside housing experience and it could potentially be carried out alongside a day job with a varying number of working hours available.

Independent end-point assessors (IEPAs)

Independent end-point assessors work for CIH. They are responsible for marking the end-point assessments for apprenticeships, which usually involves marking a written case study or project and conducting a professional discussion normally conducted via teams.

This work can be done alongside a day job and you would work direct for CIH. 

To become an IEPA you should get the assessor training mentioned above and would need to have housing knowledge.

Find a role

If you are already qualified and would like to know more about becoming an assessor you can speak directly to one of our study centres or contact CIH about working for us.

You may also find roles advertised on our CIH Jobs site where many different sector roles are listed.