The Level 4 Certificate in Leading the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice (RQF) qualification develops the skills, knowledge and understanding to enable learners to lead a team of internal quality assurers. (IQAs).

The qualification comprises of three units ‘Understanding the principles and practices of internally assuring the quality of assessment’, ‘Internally assure the quality of assessment’ and ‘Plan, allocate and monitor work in own area of responsibility’.
In order to achieve this qualification learners must work with two assessors who both have two learners each. In other words, the trainee IQA (learner) must internally quality assure four pieces of learner evidence, across the two assessors. Learners must also lead IQA activities in their provider, working with at least one or more IQAs.