Advanced Specialist, Learning Scientist

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🕒 June 30

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $110k - $125k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📚 Learning and Development

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Pearson VUE

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1994

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Pearson VUE is a global leader in computer-based testing, providing a wide range of credentialing and certification exams for various industries. They support test-takers and test owners by offering resources, scheduling options, and accommodations to ensure equitable access to testing. Their mission is to empower candidates and enrich communities through the delivery of high-stakes exams that validate professional skills and knowledge, contributing to career advancement and industry standards.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic guidance related to early literacy and numeracy assessment and learning systems across formative, screening, and progress monitoring contexts • Help evaluate product readiness, evidence alignment, and feature gaps related to state screening/progress monitoring requirements and approved provider lists • Support development of strategic plans and recommendations to strengthen alignment to evolving state, policy, and funding expectations related to early learning and identification • Help ensure coherence between formative learning systems designed to support standards mastery and screening/progress monitoring systems designed to support early identification and intervention planning • Stay informed on emerging policy, research, and instructional trends related to early literacy, early numeracy, MTSS, dyslexia legislation, and early identification initiatives • Provide early learning expertise and developmental guidance related to assessment content, instructional supports, learning materials, and student experiences for PreK–early elementary learners • Partner with Product, Measurement, Content, UX, and Technology teams to help ensure products and learning supports remain developmentally appropriate for young learners • Support guidance related to foundational literacy, numeracy, and communication development; developmentally appropriate assessment experiences; student engagement and motivation; instructional scaffolding; family communication and reporting approaches; and standards-aligned learning pathways • Explore innovative and developmentally appropriate approaches for eliciting, understanding, and supporting early learner thinking, reasoning, communication, and skill development • Help guide decisions related to supplemental learning supports, instructional activities, and learning materials for early learners • Support evaluation of instructional quality, educational usefulness, and alignment of learning supports and instructional materials • Help guide developmentally appropriate and family-centered communication approaches related to student growth, learning supports, and early learning progress • Provide strategic guidance for early learning instructional support ecosystems connected to assessment evidence • Help guide decisions related to teacher-facing instructional supports, supplemental instructional materials, independent and teacher-facilitated learning activities, high-quality instructional materials (HQIM), external instructional partnerships and content providers, responsible use of AI-assisted learning supports and instructional materials, and cross-standard instructional and pedagogical supports • Help guide developmentally appropriate and educationally responsible use of AI-assisted supports for young learners • Help ensure instructional supports meaningfully support both student learning and teacher instructional understanding • Support coherence across assessment systems, instructional supports, intervention planning, and learning experiences for young learners • Support responses to RFPs, grants, state opportunities, and strategic partnership initiatives related to early learning systems • Contribute to internal enablement and guidance materials supporting onboarding, implementation, commercialization, partner engagement, and educator understanding related to early learning systems • Contribute writing, guidance, and subject matter expertise for proposals, presentations, white papers, and thought leadership materials • Represent Pearson in conversations with partners, clients, states, and external organizations related to early learning initiatives • Contribute to external thought leadership related to early literacy, early numeracy, formative assessment, screening/progress monitoring, and instructional support systems • Help translate complex early learning research and policy developments into practical guidance for cross-functional teams and external stakeholders • Partner closely with Product, Measurement, Learning Science, Content, UX, Technology, AI Science, and Commercialization teams • Collaborate with psychometricians, researchers, instructional experts, and content specialists to guide early learning system decisions • Support alignment between assessment evidence, instructional supports, reporting approaches, intervention systems, and learner experiences • Help guide developmentally appropriate reporting, communication, and engagement approaches for young learners and families • Support long-term visioning and innovation discussions related to intelligent early learning systems

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced degree in Early Childhood Education, Reading/Literacy, Mathematics Education, Learning Sciences, Educational Psychology, Educational Measurement, Curriculum & Instruction, or a related field • Deep understanding of early literacy and/or early numeracy development and evidence-based instructional practices • Experience working within early learning, assessment, intervention, MTSS, or instructional support systems • Strong understanding of developmentally appropriate practices for PreK–early elementary learners, Familiarity with screening, progress monitoring, formative assessment, and early identification practices • Strong understanding of evidence-based early literacy and early numeracy practices, including emerging policy and instructional trends related to early identification and intervention • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience writing proposals, guidance documents, presentations, or thought leadership materials • Experience collaborating across cross-functional educational product or assessment environments • Ability to communicate effectively with educators, partners, clients, and state stakeholders • Strategic thinking skills with the ability to evaluate product gaps, opportunities, and alignment needs within evolving early learning landscapes • Comfort exploring, testing, and prototyping AI-assisted approaches related to learning supports, instructional experiences, and early learner engagement

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual incentive program