Senior Content Developer

As a Senior Assessment Specialist within the Asset Creation team, you will work as both an ELA 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 be leaders on our team.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and review ELA test items and stimuli, including multiple choice, technology enhanced, extended response, and performance-based tasks across multiple grade levels for large-scale assessments
• Generate and implement asset specifications, item development plans, test blueprints, test designs, and other ancillary documents
• Develop items and assessments based on accessibility considerations
• Select, assign, manage, and train item/passage writers and educators to develop items based on standards, cognitive complexity, and item development best practices
• Facilitate customer meetings related to item and passage review, data review, test construction, review of composed test forms, achievement-level descriptors, standard setting, and technical advisory committees
• Collaborate with internal teams and customers as an assessment expert
• Contribute to proposal solutions through drafting test designs and authoring text
• Lead teams of Assessment Specialists in the design and implementation of high-stakes assessment programs
• Work closely with test development managers, other content developers, psychometricians, and other Pearson groups
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Some travel required

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the Colorado, California, Washington State, New York State and New York City laws, the pay range for this position is as follows: 

The minimum full-time salary range is between $70,000 - $80,000.

This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in education, English, or equivalent degree required
• At least five years’ experience as an elementary or secondary teacher in the field of ELA preferred
• Professional knowledge of ELA and educational trends required 
• Experience leading assessment programs preferred
• General knowledge of all phases of the development, processing, scoring, and reporting of large-scale assessments required 
• At least three years’ experience in large-scale educational measurement preferred
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills
• Skilled at creatively and flexibly addressing challenges with a variety of audiences 
• Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills and ability to coordinate multiple activities and adapt to unexpected events
• Skill in evaluating and providing input on project schedules and process documents
• Broad knowledge of common software programs, strong technology skills, and the confidence necessary to work with unfamiliar programs

What to expect from Pearson

Did you know Pearson is one of the 10 most innovative education companies of 2022?

At Pearson, we add life to a lifetime of learning so everyone can realize the life they imagine. We do this by creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. We are on a journey to be 100 percent digital to meet the changing needs of the global population by developing a new strategy with ambitious targets.

To deliver on our strategic vision, we have five business divisions that are the foundation for the long-term growth of the company: Assessment & Qualifications, Virtual Learning, English Language Learning, Workforce Skills and Higher Education. Alongside these, we also have our corporate divisions: Digital & Technology, Finance, Global Corporate Marketing & Communications, Human Resources, Legal, Strategy and Direct to Consumer. Learn more at We are Pearson.

We value the po