Specialist, Content Developer (English Language Arts)

About the position As an Assessment Specialist within the Asset Creation team, you will work as both a content and assessment expert to develop K-12 assessments for our state and district clients. Our team develops standards-based assessments for students across the United States. We collaborate with education departments, committees of educators, and business partners to develop assessments of learning that are accessible to all students. We are looking for flexible and creative content experts to join our team. Responsibilities • Develop and review content-specific test items, including multiple choice, technology enhanced, extended response, cluster sets, performance-based tasks, and simulations across multiple grade levels for large-scale assessments • Help develop item, passage, and test specifications, item development plans, test blueprints, and other ancillary documents • Help select, assign, manage, and train item/passage writers and educators to develop items based on standards, cognitive complexity, and item development best practices • Facilitate and support customer meetings and provide content assessment expertise • Facilitate activities related to test construction and review of composed test forms • Consult with the customer as required, including participation in planning, status, review meetings, etc. • Work closely with test development managers, other content developers, psychometricians, and other Pearson groups • Perform other duties as assigned • Some travel required Requirements • Bachelor's degree in education, content-specific area, or equivalent experience required • Professional knowledge of content-specific area and educational trends required • Outstanding oral and written communication skills • Ability to creatively and flexibly address challenges with a variety of audiences • Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills and the ability to work on multiple activities and adapt to unexpected events • Skill in basic software tools and technology and the confidence necessary to work with unfamiliar programs Nice-to-haves • Five years’ experience as an elementary or secondary teacher in the field of content-specific area preferred • Some experience in large-scale educational measurement preferred • General knowledge of all phases of the development, processing, scoring, and reporting of large-scale assessments preferred Apply tot his job Apply To this Job