Sr Assessment Designer (Spanish/English)

NWEA®, a division of HMH, supports students and educators through research, assessment solutions, policy and advocacy services, professional learning, and school improvement services that fight for equity, drive classroom impact, and push for systemic change in educational communities. For nearly 50 years, NWEA has developed innovative pre-K–12 assessments, including their flagship interim assessment, MAP® Growth™, and their reading fluency and comprehension assessment, MAP® Reading Fluency™. HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators, and improve student outcomes.

About the Role

This remote position may be performed in any state in the U.S. The Sr. Assessment Designer – Spanish Language Arts serves as a subject matter expert in Spanish language assessment and contributes to the development of high-quality assessment content that meets technical, educational, and program requirements.

Responsibilities

• Development Expertise and Assessment Quality
  • Develop Assessment Materials: Create and maintain high-quality assessment items/passages in accordance with assessment program needs, including supporting the development of items through their entire life cycle. Align content to standards, frameworks, resources, and related documents. Write, edit, and review items/passages against checklists, specifications, and style guides.
  • Contribute to the development of item specifications, process documentation, design of test blueprints, and evaluation of passage and item bank inventories.
  • Provide Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as a subject matter expert in content areas and assessments when collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, including facilitating meetings and other collaborative efforts with partners. Lead training for vendors, item writers, and educators to develop and review items/passages in accordance with HMH item development best practices.
  • Support Program and/or Product Management: Consult with program management on issues and concerns with projects, attending relevant meetings and tracking progress.
  • Apply Research-Based Practices: Contribute to the development of new test designs, item and test prototypes, and other innovative assessment ideas.
  • Spanish Language Expertise: Apply understanding of Spanish literacy development, best practices in transadaptation, and assessment considerations for multilingual learners in item and assessment development, including attention to linguistic accuracy, register, and cultural appropriateness.
• Project Management
  • Administration of Projects: Support the facilitation of project launch meetings. Lead some or all portions of development-specific project meetings.
  • Promote Efficiency: Generate ideas for improving processes and procedures.
  • Tracking: Help ensure required tasks are completed on schedule and within budget, adhering to all financial, legal, and organizational requirements.
  • Communication: Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to understand and communicate decisions, impacts, progress, risks, and next steps.
  • Support Agile/Scrum Work: Collaborate with other teams to support Scrum practices that enable successful work across the division, including large-scale assessment work and content connections across the wider HMH organization.
• Leadership
  • Coaching: Help lead the training and mentoring of new and existing staff in areas of expertise.
  • Tools, Processes, and Best Practices: Develop expertise in development-related tools, software, and processes, and communicate best practices to others.
  • Change Implementation: Enact change within projects, ensuring that direction is carried out. Communicate with the manager if additional intervention is needed.

Requirements

• B.A. or B.S. in Education and/or a relevant field, such as Spanish, Linguistics, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in Spanish assessment item development.
• Knowledge and experience working with curriculum materials and standards.
• Content expertise in Spanish Language Arts and English Language Arts.
• Expertise in industry standards for assessment quality, especially in requirements for items and tests.
• Experience in assessment development processes for custom and off-the-shelf large-scale assessment products.
• Familiarity with research design, data analysis, psychometric concepts, and measurement principles.
• Ability to collaborate extensively with peers to accomplish goals.
• Familiarity with Agile processes.
• Ability to develop creative solutions to solve resource and schedule challenges.
• Translation/transadaptation (English to Spanish) and copyediting (Spanish) experience.
• Experience working in dual language education environments and/or with multilingual (Spanish/English) students.
• Bilingual in Spanish and English with the ability to speak and write fluently in both languages to communicate subject area expertise with internal and external audiences.

Pay

$90,000 - $100,000