Spanish-Language Literacy Assessment Development, Consultant

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Edify.org

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🤲 Charity

Education • Non-profit • Charity

Edify. org is a charitable organization focused on improving and expanding sustainable Christ-centered education globally. Working in partnership with education entrepreneurs, Edify provides essential resources such as training, loan capital, and technology to enhance the quality and reach of low-fee independent schools, particularly in underserved areas of Africa and Latin America. Since its inception in 2009, Edify has positively impacted over 34,000 schools and 8. 3 million students by empowering local educators and fostering sustainable educational practices.

📋 Description

• Support the Edify team in Latin America to identify, modify, or develop a Spanish-language literacy assessment. • Complete a rapid needs analysis, gathering user requests from Edify education leadership. • Research existing assessment options and propose solutions to the Edify Latin American team. • Develop a new assessment tool, if needed. • Document key features as requested by Edify staff • Create a matrix comparing key features with existing assessment tools and prioritize recommendations • Gather stakeholder feedback and refine assessment tool. • Pilot new tool with select schools and refine based on feedback. • Handover final prototype of tool to Edify.

🎯 Requirements

• Understanding of assessment design and how to develop empirically-valid questions • Knowledge of early grades literacy skills and competencies, including reading comprehension • Understanding of literacy assessment at the secondary school level • Strong analytical and research skills • Cross-cultural competence and ability to engage with teams from diverse backgrounds • Spanish proficiency • Ability to communicate requirements to technical leads and provide user feedback, with coding and/or database knowledge a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Compensation will be commensurate with experience and paid on an hourly basis. • Monthly invoices will be submitted by the consultant, with a maximum number of 80 hours per month (and any projected hours over this amount to be approved by the supervisor).