Senior Psychometrician

About the Role

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century. Working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The Senior Psychometrician assists other Psychometricians in providing services to the Program Development Department. This individual acts in a support role within the department, helping to provide expertise in the measurement and design of assessments. The Senior Psychometrician helps to ensure the accuracy and validity of assessments and gathers data that is instrumental to improving students' performance at WGU.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes data from various types of assessments using a variety of statistical methods.
• Under the guidance of more senior psychometricians, performs statistical analyses required for score reporting and data interpretation.
• Under the guidance of more senior psychometricians, performs data analyses such as item analyses and reliability analyses.
• Under the guidance of more senior psychometricians, creates graphs, charts, tables, and dashboards based on statistical analyses.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Competencies

Organizational or Student Impact: Supports program/course initiatives to improve Key Results. May actively contribute to initiatives at the university, college, or cluster level.

Problem Solving & Decision Making: Resolves problems that require broad-based consideration of variables at the program/course level. Work is situational and highly complex, and difficulties faced require detailed information gathering and analysis at the program/course. Assists in completing tasks to achieve team deliverables.

Communication & Influence: May communicate and collaborate with fellow faculty members within and across disciplines and practice. Attends professional conferences and association meetings focused on the faculty member's discipline or practice area and engaged in discourse with fellow attendees. May contribute to WGU and college brand development.

Leadership & Talent Management: Models best practices within specialty areas, produces measurable results. Establish coverage within and between teams to meet service level agreements. Implements workflows and optimizes team resources. Follows sound change management practices.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills within the team
• Strong time management skills
• Attention to detail in one's own work
• Ability to work well with a team, including following instructions and guidance of more senior team members
• Ability to produce analyses quickly
• Strong technical skills, including Microsoft Office, especially Excel, and capacity or experience with SAS, R, or other analytical or statistical packages
• Experience with Tableau or Power BI for data visualization
• Experience retrieving and manipulating data from databases using SQL, R, or Python

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Doctoral degree in Psychometrics, Psychological Measurement, Educational Psychology, or related field (e.g., Industrial/Organizational Psychology) with an emphasis on quantitative methods or psychometrics
• One (1) year of experience in testing, research, or closely related fields such as statistics and data analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in Higher Education

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
• This position requires occasional travel of up to 20%, including required attendance at designated company summits (typically one to two per year).
• Additional travel may include conferences, visits to company locations, and other business-related events as needed.
• Additional travel may be assigned as needed to support business requirements.

Pay

Grade: Faculty 508. Pay Range: $88,600.00 – $132,900.00. The salary range takes into account the wide range of factors 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.

Benefits

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
• 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
• Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave

Schedule

Full-time, regular position classified for 40 standard weekly hours.