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Vocational Specialist - Business, IT and Retail

Vocational Specialist - Business, IT and Retail

Owned by Mary Cerantola (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Aug 17, 2016

Welcome to our Master Product Development Vocational Specialist Team, we look forward to working with you. 

Vocational Specialist Role

The role of the Vocational Specialist (VS) is a vital one in the development of quality teaching and learning resources and assessments. Your role requires you to be familiar with the training package requirements, the unit content and ideally with best practice in educational instruction in an online environment.

Your responsibilities include reviewing existing resources and regularly liaising with the content writer (CW) to ensure they are progressing as planned, all within tight timelines.

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • High volume of content review, constructive feedback and validation.

Mandatory Requirements:

  • Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAE40110) or equivalent
  • Current content area expertise to provide appropriate support
  • Excellent communication and organisational skills with a focus on reliability
  • Meets availability criteria including response deadlines.

Project Management Tasks

You have been set up in Clarizen which is our Project management system and you will be required to log your time for all Vocational specialist work completed. You should have received a Welcome email from Clarizen, so please check your junk mail, as this will have your login details. 

 

You will be required to perform the following

 

What tasks am I expected to perform?

 

Once a unit becomes available for Vocational Specialist review and approval you will be tasked with a Clarizen task and you will be notified by email. It is important that all tasks are completed within the 72 hour timeframe to avoid delays in our development process.

 

The following tasks need to be performed as part of your Vocational Specialist role. 

Step

Task

Document

Timeframe

Communication Method

1

Briefing/induction  session

Project Plan

 

Meeting or Lync

3

Liaise with content writer, project team (Account manager or Team Lead) and/or PLC as required

 

 

 

4

Provide timely feedback to the CW as requested.

 

Within 72 hrs of requested assistance

 

5

Review of first draft and provide constructive feedback to CW

Clarizen

Provide feedback within 2 days of submission

Via Clarizen

6

Progressive review and feedback to Content writer (as required)

Clarizen

Within 72 hrs of requested assistance

 

7

Review final draft

Clarizen

Provide feedback within 2 days of of submission

Via Clarizen

8

Submit final approval documents  to Account Manager or Team Leader

Clarizen

Within 2 days of requested sign off

Via Clarizen

 

 

What do I need to check as part of this review?

 

In order to perform your review and approval of Content and assessments you can use the following checklist to validate that all resources submitted by the Content writer meets all the Unit of Competencies, Assessment requirements and Design Criteria.

Who do I contact for help?

 

We in OPDU are willing to help, so for any issues or concerns in regards to you performing your Vocational Specialist duties or accessing files or systems, contact your

Assessment Mapping Matrix

 

When you are reviewing the Assessment mapping matrix document for your units, ensure that the SPOT template has been used. We require an assessment mapping matrix for every unit of competency. 

Having crosses or ticks in the columns is not sufficient.  The question number needs to be against what it is covering in the unit of competency.  A practical observation/task however may use ticks/ crosses as it may be hard to identify where something is particularly addressed. We also require every and all Performance criteria, Required Skills, Required Knowledge, Critical Aspect of Evidence or more recent version of each of these (some units have been updated) to have at least one item of assessment address them. 

On reviewing assessment docs it is important to ensure all assessments have been addressed in the mapping matrix. If something is missing in the  assessment mapping matrix or not filled in completely then it needs to be identified so that it can be corrected by the CW.