Job Title: AQA Lead Examiner Consultant
Location: Remote (UK-based preferred) 📍
Contract Type: Part-time Consultancy
Salary: £50.00 per hour, plus additional payments for essay marking and standardisation sessions.
Start date: Immediate
Timeline
• Interviews: w/c 15 December
• Start: Before Christmas (marking work over holiday period)
• AI calibration: January 2026
• Launch: End of January 2026
We are looking for:
• Current or recent senior examining (within last 2-3 years) experience with AQA exam board (Principal Examiner / Team leader or equivalent)
• Experience leading or participating in standardisation
• Deep understanding of mark schemes and assessment objectives
• Ability to articulate marking rationale clearly
• Available to start immediately with some flexibility over Christmas
Who We Are: Lightup Tutoring is dedicated to providing exceptional support to students for GCSE English. Our online interactive learning platform, The Lightup Hub, helps students enhance their confidence and grades through a variety of resources including videos, condensed notes, quizzes, personalised revision plans, and other interactive features. Social media is an important part of our strategy, and as a consequence we have around 400,000+ person audience.
We are dedicated to bridging the gap between potential and achievement in GCSE English. By offering a transformative learning platform, we provide students with over 300 bite-sized videos, AI-driven essay feedback, model answers, interactive flashcards, custom revision planners, and live workshops. Our proven methods have empowered over 87% of our students to improve their grades by 1–5 or more levels. We are committed to delivering accessible and effective tools, ensuring all students can achieve academic success.
Our Mission: We are committed to empowering students through education, as we believe it is the foundation for a child’s future. Many students face challenges in achieving the grades they desire, which can negatively impact their confidence both academically and personally. The Lightup Hub enables students to demonstrate their capabilities and build their confidence through being a part of our brand and community.
Having proudly empowered over 150,000 students since we started, we continue to grow and make a positive impact on more students every day.
Role Description: As Lead Examiner, you'll be the senior authority on marking standards at Lightup Hub. You'll chair our Board of Examiners, set the benchmark that our AI learns from, and ensure every mark we give reflects what a real examiner would award. This is a chance to shape how AI is used in education - and to help thousands of students get the feedback they need to improve.
Responsibilities.
• Create Grade 1-9 exemplar responses with full annotations explaining how marks are allocated
• Write 'what the AI should look for' documentation - key skills, red flags, scoring boundaries
• Lead standardisation sessions to align the examining team
• Mark sample essays to calibrate and validate AI accuracy
• Review AI output and flag where it's scoring off (and why)
• Sign off on AI marking accuracy before launch
Benefits
• Fully remote - work flexibly around your schedule
• See how AI is being applied to education from the inside
• Meaningful impact - your marks help students improve
• Ongoing work: after intensive Jan setup, shifts to 4-6 hrs/month
If you are interested in applying for this role, please complete the this application form, for consideration.
https://forms.clickup.com/9015733776/f/8cp2bgg-16435/VEILYBD0OJEB38D7SB