Description Digital Assessment Initiative Director Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent Location: IB (International Baccalaureate®) Global Centre, Cardiff or Netherlands Hybrid working opportunity About the Job The IB’s Digital Assessment initiative is a strategically significant, multiyear transformation to introduce a secure, innovative, and student-centred digital assessment service across the Diploma Programme (DP) and Career related Programme (CP), replacing existing paper-based examinations. The initiative is critical to sustaining assessment integrity, enhancing learner and school experience through digital experiences, and ensuring IB assessment remains credible and scalable in a rapidly evolving global education landscape. Due to its impact on learners, schools, assessment integrity, and organisational reputation, the initiative operates within a highly scrutinised, and high stakes governance environment. ‑year transformation to introduce a secure, innovative, and student‑related Programme (CP), replacing existing paper‑stakes governance environment. Reporting to the Chief Assessment & Operations Officer, the role is part of the Assessment & Operations leadership team. The Digital Assessment Initiative Director provides senior leadership for the successful delivery of this enterprise-wide digital assessment initiative, ensuring that strategic intent is translated into sustainable, high-quality outcomes, with full alignment across the organization. The role jointly reports to the co-sponsors of the project – namely Chief Assessment & Operations Officer and the Digital and Data Office Chief Officer. The role requires a senior leader with expertise in large scale business transformations within the education sector involving technology, capable of combining industry expertise with strategic vision and disciplined execution. The Director operates with a high degree of autonomy, judgement, and accountability, balancing innovation with reliability, fairness, and assessment validity. The Digital Assessment Initiative Director is the main person accountable for ensuring the Digital Assessment Initiative achieves its business outcomes. They are the lead member of a Core Leadership Team for the initiative that also includes a Product Lead and Strategy Delivery Manager. The overall initiative team comprises 63 colleagues. The role leads the programme leadership team, including workstream leads, technology product lead, project and programme management, human resources and finance support and is accountable for setting performance measures, delivery expectations, and success criteria to ensure outcomes are achieved in line with IB’s values and strategic objectives. Responsibilities Key Responsibilities Provide senior leadership for the digital assessment programme, ensuring alignment with organisational strategy, clear success measures, and strong executive sponsorship. Lead the co‑development of the digital assessment proposition and supporting business cases, securing approval on scope, benefits, risks, and investment. Own end‑to‑end programme delivery, maintaining momentum, quality, and confidence while managing priorities, dependencies, and delivery challenges. Establish and operate effective governance, assurance, and financial control, enabling informed executive oversight, timely decision‑making, and transparent escalation. Maintain active oversight of risks, issues, and interdependencies, protecting assessment integrity, organisational reputation, and learner impact. Act as the senior accountable representative across IB, aligning internal leaders, external partners, and vendors to deliver integrated outcomes. Lead and assure third‑party performance, ensuring contractual, delivery, and quality commitments are met. Foster a collaborative, inclusive programme culture aligned with IB values, supporting sustained performance across multiple years. Ensure digital assessment solutions are operationally ready, scalable, and sustainable beyond initial implementation. Exercise sound judgement in complex, ambiguous environments, making high‑impact decisions that balance strategic outcomes, delivery constraints, and long‑term capability. Qualifications About You Significant experience delivering large‑scale, end‑to‑end assessment or certification services, ideally in complex, regulated and international environments. Proven leader of multi‑year, enterprise‑level transformation programmes involving technology, operations, and policy. Strong track record managing high‑stakes programmes with full accountability for scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and value realisation (budgets $50m). Experience leading large, cross‑functional teams (60 people) and complex vendor and partner ecosystems. Demonstrated success implementing operational change across diverse, global stakeholder groups. Highly capable in governance, executive reporting, risk management, and issue escalation at Executive and Board level. Strategic, resilient leader with excellent communication and influencing skills, able to challenge legacy practices while balancing innovation, reliability, and fairness. Degree‑qualified (Master’s and formal programme/project management certification preferred). In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including: 10% employer pension contribution with a 3% employee contribution Annual pay review with Variable pay Enhanced family friendly benefits 30 Days annual leave, plus public holidays Life assurance 4x annual salary Flexible working hours (core hours are 10am-12pm and 2pm-3pm), 37.5 hours per week Paid volunteering leave (one day per calendar year) Flexible benefits allowance equivalent to 1.5% of Annual Salary to spend on benefits or as addition to salary Excellent continuous professional development Health and Wellness Schemes Disability Confident Employer Cycle to Work Scheme Discounts on a range of products, including days out and Gym Memberships Cash back opportunities available from a wide range of retailers Employee Assistance Programme Free onsite parking Applications will be accepted until 11.55pm (BST) on Monday 23 March 2026. We are committed to building a working environment that values respect, diversity, and compassion. The International Baccalaureate is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified applicants.