Lead Psychometrician - 6655

Job Title: Lead Psychometrician

Contract: Full-time, permanent, 35 hours per week

Salary: £70,000-£93,700 per annum

Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (2-3 days per week in Cambridge)

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

We are looking for a Lead Psychometrician to join our world-class team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of English language assessment. This is an exciting opportunity to lead the design and implementation of advanced psychometric processes, with a strong focus on Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) and innovative approaches that underpin our transformation strategy.

Working across the Cambridge ecosystem, you will help deliver scalable, modular assessment products and composable systems architecture, ensuring validity, reliability, and compliance across high-stakes testing programmes. Your work will be critical to enabling faster, smarter, and more adaptive assessment solutions for learners worldwide.

The Role

As Lead Psychometrician, you will be responsible for driving innovation in psychometric and CAT processes, which will be critical to the successful transformation programme. As part of this role, you will:

• Develop and maintain frameworks for adaptive testing capabilities aligned with our Principles of Good Practice.
• Lead the design, calibration, and validation of CAT-based assessments using advanced psychometric models.
• Direct studies and simulations to validate design assumptions and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate with product owners, technology teams, and subject matter experts to integrate CAT systems into digital delivery platforms.

Your leadership will ensure our assessment services become connected, efficient, and scalable-positioning Cambridge as a global leader in digital assessment.

About You

As our Lead Psychometrician, you will need extensive experience in delivering innovative psychometric solutions in large-scale, high-stakes assessment environments. You will also have a deep expertise in Item Response Theory, Rasch models, and Computer Adaptive Testing algorithms, as well as strong analytical skills and proficiency in R, Python, or similar tools for psychometric analysis and CAT simulation.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• The ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to lead through influence across diverse teams.
• The ability to apply your specialist expertise in new contexts and acquire new skills to tackle emerging challenges

Come and experience business-critical, exciting, customer-focused work that is integral to our mission to help people learn English and prove their skills to the world.

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits, including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 7th December 2025. Interviews are scheduled to take place w/c 15th December 2025.

Interviews may also be held on a rolling basis, so you may be invited to interview while the role is still being advertised.

You may be asked to carry you a role-related task as part of this recruitment process.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks, including DBS, due to working in a regulated industry.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.