Associate Assessment Strategist

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensures alignment of assessments with best practices in competency-based education model and WGU assessment integrity policies.
• Provides input for the continuous improvement of student outcomes and overall health and quality assessments.
• Understands and supports the alignment of assessment traverse with proficiencies, skills and competencies in programs, courses, and non-degree offerings.
• Translates requirements into clearly defined specifications and actions.
• Contributes by recommending enhancements/changes to models for formative and summative assessments.
• Collaborates with internal and external partners throughout the design, development, and deployment of assessments.
• Collaborate with Assessment Strategists and Senior Assessment Strategists regarding the technology, design, and development to ensure the creation and adoption of flexible, valid, reliable, data-driven assessment tools.
• Supports cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders to explore innovations and improvements to the existing student experience and processes based on data, key performance indicators, current practice, and emerging trends.
• Collaborate with peers across colleges to ensure continuity of process and strategy for assessments.
• Achieves and reports on critical assessment metrics.
• Provides student-facing responses to student appeals.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of 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 assessment policy and best practices.
• 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.

Experience

• 2 years of relevant professional experience developing educational or licensure assessments at the course or program level.
• Experience with contemporary assessment practices and technology (e.g., adaptive assessment, competency-based assessment, psychometrics, technology-enhanced items, prototyping and validating new item types, test designs, etc.).
• Experience facilitating workshops.

Additional Requirements

• Ability to work a student-friendly schedule (evenings/weekends).

Physical Requirements

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

Position & Application Details

• This is a full-time, 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.
• If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.