Content Specialist II, ELA – Alternate Assessment

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🗻 New Hampshire – Remote

🗻 New Hampshire – Remote

💵 $70k - $80k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Cognia

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201 - 500 employees

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Non-profit • Professional Learning

Cognia is a forward-thinking nonprofit organization dedicated to improving education for all learners. As a global leader in educational improvement, Cognia provides a holistic approach encompassing accreditation, certification, assessment, and professional learning services tailored for various educational institutions including public and private schools, charter schools, and state education agencies. With a commitment to advancing learning, Cognia leverages its extensive network of educators to implement strategies and insights that promote continuous improvement and academic excellence in schools worldwide.

📋 Description

• Contribute to conceptualization, specifications, and creation of innovative content and new assessment products, systems, or services • Use databases and technology tools to construct, track, and edit assessment items • Coordinate schedules and communicate project details with project managers and functional groups such as Graphics and Publications • Develop assessment item types according to standards frameworks and requirements • Develop and maintain item, test, and project specifications • Create and refine multiple-choice, short-answer, constructed-response, evidence-based response, technology-enhanced items, modules, and performance tasks aligned to standards • Develop item-specific scoring guides, distractor rationales, and supplemental item information • Conduct training workshops in item writing and test development tasks • Train and provide feedback to item writers • Review colleagues' work and provide feedback • Coordinate presentation and quality of items, sets, and work products • Prepare materials for committee meetings and facilitate advisory committees • Create and analyze test blueprints • Interpret item statistics for item selection and construct tests according to blueprints and specifications • Consult with scoring chief readers during benchmarking • Assist with assessment guides, brochures, and sample question packets • Work with Psychometricians to develop items meeting content and psychometric parameters, including adaptive testing banks • Study trends in national and professional content standards and learning • Participate in personal and professional development • Perform related or unrelated tasks as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree • Minimum of five (5) years of experience in Education • Two (2) to three (3) years of experience in educational assessment • Proven experience demonstrating test development competencies • Experience in alternate assessment highly preferred • Special education experience preferred • Master's degree in Education preferred • In-depth knowledge in a specific discipline • Education/degree coupled with teaching experience must be in English/Language Arts • Communication competency • Technical expertise and proficient use of technology-based tools • Individual accountability • Scope-of-work management • Leadership • Ability to work independently • Project management and time management skills • Ability to train and coordinate internal and external team members, including freelancers, consultants, and item writing houses • Willingness to undertake limited travel (0–10%) and attend the All Staff Company Meeting

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous paid time off and holiday breaks • Comprehensive insurance plans • 12.5% retirement savings contribution, immediately vested on date of hire • Limited travel (0–10%) • Travel to All Staff Company Meeting required