Employment Type: Full time, one-year contract

Work Arrangement: Hybrid -2 to 3 days in the office.

Hiring Salary Range: $105,000–$116,000 annually. (This is the hiring range for the position and does not represent the full salary range. Employees may progress beyond the hiring range over time based on performance and in accordance with PEBC’s compensation policies.)

About PEBC

The Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada (PEBC) is the national certification body for the pharmacy profession in Canada.

Our examination processes support safe and qualified pharmacy practice across Canada and depend on accuracy, security, fairness, and professional integrity.

Why Work with PEBC?

At PEBC, your work contributes to the assessment and certification of pharmacy professionals across Canada.

You will join a collaborative, knowledgeable team dedicated to maintaining high standards in professional assessment and examination development.

We offer an environment where accuracy, integrity, collaboration, and accountability are valued. Our team supports knowledge-sharing, continuous improvement, and professional development while taking pride in work that makes a meaningful contribution to the pharmacy profession.

Position Overview

PEBC is seeking an experienced pharmacy professional to join our team as an MCQ Examination Development Lead, with a primary focus on the Pharmacist Qualifying Examination.

This position plays a critical role in developing, reviewing, and maintaining multiple-choice examination content, ensuring that examination questions and forms remain current, accurate, and aligned with approved examination blueprints, professional standards, and PEBC’s quality requirements.





The successful candidate will coordinate examiner panels, oversee examination content development, support English and French examination form construction, and contribute to quality assurance initiatives that protect the validity, reliability, and fairness of PEBC’s examinations.

This is a one-year contract position, initially intended to provide coverage for the Pharmacist Qualifying Examination. Depending on evolving organizational needs, the successful candidate may be reassigned during the contract to another comparable role, project, or area of responsibility at an equivalent level.

Key Responsibilities

Examination Content Development

- Oversee the development, review, and revision of multiple-choice examination questions in accordance with approved blueprints and professional standards.
- Verify the clinical accuracy and professional validity of examination content, including references and supporting rationales.
- Monitor changes in pharmacy legislation, clinical practice, and professional standards to ensure examination content remains current.
- Identify examination questions requiring revision, further review, or removal.
- Explore technologies and improvements that support examination content development.

Panel of Examiners Coordination





- Coordinate and facilitate virtual and in-person meetings with panels of pharmacy subject matter experts.
- Prepare examination materials and guide panel discussions to achieve established content development objectives.
- Provide training and guidance to examiners on question development and interpretation of statistical information.
- Incorporate panel feedback into revised examination content.

Examination Form Development and Quality Assurance

- Assemble English and French examination forms using approved blueprints and established item bank requirements.
- Coordinate French translation and review processes to maintain conceptual and professional consistency.
- Collaborate with translators, testing providers, and internal stakeholders to ensure examination content integrity.
- Maintain and monitor examination question banks, including classification, accuracy, and currency.
- Review examination question performance statistics in collaboration with psychometric staff.
- Identify questions requiring additional evaluation or corrective action.

Examination Integrity and Continuous Improvement

- Collaborate with internal teams to investigate examination content concerns and support appropriate resolution.
- Provide input on candidate remediation matters related to examination content.
- Contribute to examination blueprint revisions, standard-setting activities, and assessment improvement initiatives.
- Support the alignment of examination content with Canadian pharmacy education and entry-to-practice expectations.
- Review and update examination-related website content, sample questions, and learning resources.

Qualifications and Experience

📌 MCQ Examination Development Lead – Pharmacist Qualifying Examination (Toronto)
🏢 The Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada
📍 Toronto