Assessment Strategist

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The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Pay Range: $82900.00 $124300.00

Job Description

Job Profile Summary:

Reporting to the respective schools Director of Assessment and Curriculum the Assessment Strategist guides and supports the strategy design development and maintenance of formative and highstakes assessments within an assigned portfolio. This position collaborates with crossfunctional stakeholders to ensure assessments meet the goals of the university and that assessment best practices have been followed. The Assessment Strategist oversees the full lifecycle for an assigned portfolio of assessment products ensuring alignment with assessment integrity policies. This position manages assessment design development and continuous improvement efforts for WGUs online assessment content. The Assessment Strategist collaborates with critical stakeholders in academics evaluation and others to provide input about potential changes to the assessment or related technologies.

Location: This position requires you to work at our headquarters 4001 South 700 East Salt Lake City UT 84107. You would work a hybrid schedule in the office 4 days a week with one day remote.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Ensures alignment of assessments with best practices in our competencybased education model and WGU assessment integrity policies.
• Provides thought leadership and strategic vision for the continuous improvement of student outcomes and overall health and quality of assessments.
• Ensures alignment of assessment traverse with proficiencies skills and competencies in programs courses and nondegree offerings.
• Translates requirements into clearly defined specifications and actions.
• Contributes to models for formative and summative assessments.
• Collaborates with internal and external partners throughout the design development and deployment of assessments.
• Collaborates with the technology design and development teams to ensure the creation and adoption of flexible valid reliable datadriven assessment tools.
• As required provides training consultation or guidance to team members and partners on assessment models assessment design and development practices and datadriven evidencebased practices in assessment.
• Consults with Program Development and Psychometrics teams on scoring methods rubric development and other assessment tools and models.
• Collaborates with crossfunctional stakeholders to explore and determine innovations and improvements to the existing student experience and processes based on data key performance indicators current practice and emerging trends.
• Collaborates with peers across colleges to ensure continuity of process and strategy for assessments
• Monitors assessment portfolio health across the assessment lifecycle.
• Achieves and reports on critical assessment metrics.
• Provides studentfacing responses to student appeals.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge Skill and Abilities:

• Demonstrated technical knowledge of highstakes assessment development practices
• Demonstrated ability to proactively and creatively solve problems related to assessment design and development
• Practical understanding of teaching and learning educational trends and research
• Demonstrated skill in providing training as well as persuasively explaining complex assessment policy and best practices
• Proven ability to analyze data to identify trends and drive improvement
• Ability to build relationships and work effectively in a highly matrixed organization
• Excellent organizational and project management skills including the ability to effectively handle multiple tasks and pay attention to detail

Job Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Masters degree in a relevant field
• 3 years of relevant professional experience developing highstakes educational or licensure assessments at the course or program level.
• Experience with contemporary assessment practices and technology (e.g. adaptive assessment competencybased assessment psychometrics technologyenhanced items prototyping and validating new item types test designs etc..
• Experience facilitating workshops.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

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Position & Application Details

FullTime Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a fulltime regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical dental vision telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual 11 paid holidays and other paid leaves including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply: If interested an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

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Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.