Director General

Director General focuses on managing the organisation across all business functions and governance, including budget and staff management.

What the role involves

• Managing the organisation across all business functions and governance, including budget and staff management.
• Reporting to and advising the Board and Executive Committee.

Skills and requirements

• Ideally this person should have an interest in and demonstrate a knowledge of the education system.
• Rapidly and systematically respond to requests from the media. Act as spokesperson where appropriate, or direct enquiries accordingly, leveraging member resources when required.
• The Director General will posses the necessary leadership qualities to manage a board of members and will have first class policy, public affairs, and communications skills.
• Through their leadership qualities they will be expected to establish their own credibility, through action and results, with the JCQ Board and external stakeholders.

Confirmed role details

• Manage the release of the annual national GCSE and A level results, including data analysis, messaging, briefing Government officials, regulators and delivering presentations to ke.

Additional role context

• JCQ is the representative body of the qualifications and assessment boards industry in the United Kingdom.
• The eight members of JCQ are the largest national awarding bodies offering qualifications in the UK.
• The Director General role is crucial to the success of JCQ and of its members.