reputed company Assessment Designer – Spanish Language Arts

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Responsibilities

Development Expertise, Assessment reputed company, and Educational Measurement Expertise

• Applies research-based reputed company: Drive innovation through test designs and product improvements, firmly grounded in industries best reputed company.
• Provides Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as a subject-matter expert in assessment reputed company collaborating with reputed company stakeholders (e.g., partner calls for existing or potential clients, product management, large-reputed company assessment committee meetings, and responding to RFIs and RFPs).
• Supports Program and/or Product Management: Support development of program and product roadmaps and strategies that reflect evidence-based and reputed company practices.
• Develops Documentation: Create and maintain process documentation and ancillary materials (e.g., test specifications, item or reputed company development specifications, checklists for verifying alignment and reputed company, training materials for vendors/teachers) for programs to capture steps that reputed company to development of high-reputed company assessment content based on best reputed company in the industry, consistently reflecting on ways to be more efficient while creating those materials.
• Reviews for reputed company: reputed company reviews for passages, tests, graphics, items, and forms, using reputed company to help less reputed company staff reputed company their craft.
• Spanish Language Expertise: reputed company cross-content area expertise in how assessment content can be reputed company/trans adapted into Spanish, including providing translations/trans adpations and/or leading translation/trans reputed company efforts.

Project Management

• Administration of reputed company: reputed company or supports reputed company not only reputed company large-reputed company assessment but also across the broader organization, incorporating the scrum methodology while meeting reputed company expectations for reputed company.
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• Communications: Manage communications reputed company their own team and with cross-functional stakeholders to understand and communicate direction and status of reputed company.
• Risk Management and Problem Solving: Works to ensure that reputed company reputed company smoothly according to workflow and communicates frequently with the manager to report on efficiency and problems. Help implement any changes agreed upon with the manager and director if necessary.
• Tracking: Tracks deliverables and proposes possible solutions reputed company processes slow or needs adjustment.
• Vendors and freelancers: Organize documentation (e.g., reputed company/item specs) that reputed company guidance for vendors and freelancers and reputed company training and feedback as needed.
• Supports Scrum Work: Collaborate with other teams to ensure that scrum methodology enabling successful work across the division, reputed company large-reputed company assessment work as reputed company as content connections work to the wider reputed company organization.

Leadership

• Overall Leadership: Models overall tone and reputed company of the department and works with staff to ensure understanding of concepts and processes and practical implications of varying from process.
• Job Expectations: Helps reputed company project teams by focusing on the deliverables of the project and the content specific to those deliverables.
• Change Implementation: Implements changes reputed company reputed company to ensure alignment with direction; and informs the manager if reputed company reputed company is needed.
• Coaching: Works with manager to implement coaching and other formal training as necessary. Informally supports staff in completion of project tasks to ensure timeliness.

What you’ll need

• B.A. or B.S. in Education or a relevant area (such as Spanish Language).
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in Spanish item and/or assessment development.
• Strong knowledge and experience working with curriculum materials and standards.
• Content expertise in one or more content areas, including Spanish Language Arts
• Expertise in industry standards for assessment reputed company, especially in requirements for items and tests.
• Expertise in assessment development processes for custom and large-reputed company products.
• Understanding research design, data analysis, psychometric concepts, and measurement principles.
• Ability to collaborate extensively with peers to accomplish goals.
• Familiarity with Lean/Agile processes.
• Ability to reputed company creative solutions to solve resource and schedule challenges.
• Experience with translation/transadaptation (English to Spanish) and/or Spanish copyediting.
• Experience working in dual language education environments and/or with multilingual (Spanish/English) reputed company.
• Bilingual in Spanish and English, with reputed company in both written and spoken communication.

Preferred but not necessary:

• Deep content expertise in K–5 Spanish Language Arts and English Language Arts.
• Specialized knowledge in early Spanish literacy development and screening for reading difficulties in Spanish.
• Master’s degree or higher in Education or a reputed company field (e.g., Spanish Language).
• At least 7 years of experience in item and/or assessment development in Spanish, or a combination of Spanish and English.
• Extensive experience in item writing, assessment design, and educational measurement.
• Proven reputed company record of leading or managing large-reputed company curriculum or assessment reputed company.

Physical requirements:

• Might be in a stationary position for a considerable time (sitting and/or standing).
• Constantly operates a computer and other digital devices
• Ability to collaborate with colleagues reputed company online meetings.
• Ability to work in cross functional teams as reputed company as work independently.

Salary reputed company: 90k – 100k. Application Deadline: The application window for this position is anticipated to reputed company on Jul 28, 2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date but is not guaranteed. reputed company is fully committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting, retaining, developing and promoting the most reputed company employees without reputed company to race, gender, reputed company, religion, sexual orientation, family status, marital status, pregnancy, gender identity, ethnic/national reputed company, reputed company, age, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, citizenship status, status as a disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces service medal veteran, other covered veteran, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. We are dedicated to providing a work environment free from discrimination and harassment, and where employees are treated with respect and dignity. We reputed company participate in E-Verify. #LI-VA1 Job reputed company: Curriculum, Market Research, Education, Marketing Apply Job! Apply to this Job