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Thank you for your interest in working for TASC. Each year we employ around 1000 sessional staff to assist with senior secondary external assessment.
Our sessional staff include Setting Examiners, Critics, Supervisor Coordinators, Supervisors, Marking Coordinators, Markers and casual staff.
Sessional staff are employed by TASC, and are managed through the Department for Education, Children and Young People’s employment conditions, travel and relief allowances and rates.
Each year, we welcome applications from new and experienced applicants for the Marking Coordinator and Marker roles, including educators and former educators who have:
For your application to proceed, you need to have completed both the TASC Sessional Employment Register and 2024 Marking Coordinator Application Form.
For your application to proceed, you need to have completed both the TASC Sessional Employment Register and Marker Application Form (closed for 2024).
Please note:
The observer process is a professional learning opportunity which allows access to the first Written, Folio and/or Practical Marker meeting. This is beneficial for the ongoing comparability of standards and for teachers new to a TASC course and provides valuable insight into the marking process.
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Each year, we welcome applications from new and experienced applicants to administer the end-of-year exams (external assessments) at endorsed Exam Centres around the state in line with TASC’s instructions.
Please be aware that the Statement of Duties for both roles have been updated in 2024 and should be reviewed prior to applying for either role.
For your application to proceed, you need to have completed both the TASC Sessional Employment Register and the relevant Exam Centre and workload preference form.
Every year TASC welcomes applications from new and experienced applicants, including educators and former educators who have:
To ensure that there is no perceived conflict of interest, you must not be teaching the Level 3 or 4 course in the same year you write or review the exam for that course.
Round 1 Setting Examiner applications:
If you are successful in Round 1 as a Setting Examiner, this will provide you the opportunity to begin setting over the holiday break.
Round 2 Setting Examiner applications:
Round 2 role applications are appointed to suitable applicants on a rolling basis. This is to ensure that exam papers are developed to meet the external assessment timeframes.
For your application to proceed, you need to have completed both the TASC Sessional Employment Register and the Setting Examiner Application Form (closed for 2024).
Applications open 2025 TBA and close on 2025 TBA.
Exam Critic applications are appointed to suitable applicants on a rolling basis. This is to ensure that exam papers are developed to meet the external assessment timeframes.
For your application to proceed, you need to have completed both the TASC Sessional Employment Register and the Exam Critic Application Form (closed for 2024).
TASC uses the DECYP PageUp Talent Management Software for the recruitment of sessional staff. The secure application system allows TASC to efficiently manage the processing of the sessional staff applications. The PageUp system is used for Department for Education, Children and Young People jobs advertised via the jobs.tas.gov.au website.
Applications can be submitted at any time during the year. However, applicants will not be notified until September/October ahead of the written external period if they have been shortlisted for a role.
Each year TASC employs casual Clerical Assistants to assist with the handling and processing of Year 11 and 12 external exams and results.
It’s a big job with almost 15,000 written exams completed each year and more than 10,000 students sent a statement of results and the certificates they achieved.
The work:
Find out more:
How to Apply:
Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis, due to the volume received you may only be notified if your application is successful.
Please note that this position does not qualify for travel reimbursements or allowances.
In accordance with the State Service Act 2000 all employees working for TASC must carry out duties in accordance with this the State Service Code of Conduct.
Before starting work with TASC, you need to:
The Child and Youth Safe Organisations Act 2023 states that all “workers” are required to complete the training. “Workers” include all DECYP employees (all TASC employees are considered DECYP employees), External Service Providers and Volunteers.
When employed by TASC in a sessional staff role, you must watch the Safeguarding Children and Young People – Training video* linked in the Safeguarding, Confidentiality and Conflict of Interest Declaration Form before you work with any children and young people this year. Please refer to the DECYP Safeguarding Training page for further details.
* DECYP staff employed outside of a TASC sessional staff role are required to complete the full Safeguarding Training modules.
In the Safeguarding, Confidentiality and Conflict of Interest Declaration Form you disclose any actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest (e.g. family members sitting for examinations). Please refer to the Conflict of Interest page for further details.
Submit a New Employee Starter Pack if you:
A current Registration to Work with Vulnerable People (RWVP) card is a mandatory requirement for employment with TASC. All registrations must:
The payment rates for sessional staff participating in external assessments is set in the Tasmanian Assessment, Standards and Certification (Fees) Regulations 2023 (Schedule 2). The rates are updated on 1 July each year.
See the sessional staff payment rates.
TASC sessional staff receive payments for undertaking their TASC role, which is to be completed in addition to any normal duties they may have at a school. See ‘Relief reimbursements’ below for more information about when relief claims can be made.
Some sessional staff may be eligible to submit claims for travel, transport and accommodation allowances/reimbursements directly related to work for TASC.
READ the TASC Travel and Accommodation Guidelines before making any travel or accommodation plans. The guidelines set out the requirements to have your travel approved by TASC in advance, travel options and allowances.
If you are making a claim, there are steps you need to complete before, during and after your travel.
Details on what can (and cannot) be reimbursed and the steps to make a claim are detailed at Travel and accommodation claims.
NB: The TASC Clerical Assistant and Exam Supervisor roles do not qualify for travel reimbursements or allowances.
TASC may pay a claim when a school has employed a relief teacher to allow Sessional Staff to participate in the following meetings:
TASC will not pay claims when a school or college has employed a relief teacher:
TASC will not pay claims directly to individual teachers or when Sessional Staff did not attend the scheduled training or meeting.
TASC will pay the hourly rate for a Band I Level 13 Relief Teacher according to the Department for Education, Children and Young People’s Salary Scales on the day of employment, up to the maximum claimable hours for relief of five hours per day per teacher.
To make a relief claim, schools and colleges must:
Further information is available in the TASC Relief Claim Guidelines for Sessional Staff.