The Principal Moderator is responsible to the Chief Examiner for ensuring that the standards of the internally assessed unit/component are maintained and are consistent with the unit specification and assessment criteria. The Principal Moderator is responsible for the setting of coursework tasks/set assignments and the standardising of moderators.Responsibilities:Undertake the setting of coursework tasks/set assignments in line with the qualification criteria and standardise coursework moderation.Compile exemplar work, annotated to show how the assessment criteria are to be applied.Ensure that moderators meet the standardisation requirements and take action if any moderator fails to maintain the required standard.Ensure that all moderators correctly interpret and apply the assessment criteria and that they are using the same criteria as the awarding organisation provides for the internal assessors.Monitor the standards of any Assistant Principal Moderators, Team Leaders and moderators.Ensure that appropriate preparatory, follow up and remedial work with centres is carried out.

In conjunction with the Chief Examiner/Moderator takes account of feedback from previous assessment sessions (including recommendations from relevant monitoring reports), as well as feedback from Assessment/Chair of Examiners/Reviser/Language Specialist and CPM.