Advanced Specialist, Content Developer – Social Studies
Pearson VUE
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $70,000 - $80,000 per year
About the role
- Develop and review content-specific test items and stimuli, including multiple choice, technology enhanced, extended response, cluster sets, performance-based tasks, and simulations across multiple grade levels for large-scale assessments
- Generate and implement asset specifications, item development plans, test blueprints, test designs, and other ancillary documents
- Develop items and assessments based on accessibility considerations
- Leverage AI-powered tools to support the development, review, and enhancement of assessment content, ensuring outputs meet quality and accessibility standards
- Collaborate with and train team members to integrate AI-generated assets in assessment workflows, providing feedback using content and educational expertise
- Select, assign, manage, and train item/passage writers and educators to develop items based on standards, cognitive complexity, and item development best practices
- Facilitate customer meetings related to item and passage review, data review, test construction, review of composed test forms, achievement-level descriptors, standard setting, and technical advisory committees
- Collaborate with internal teams and customers as an assessment expert
- Contribute to proposal solutions through drafting test designs and authoring text
- Lead teams of Assessment Specialists in the design and implementation of high-stakes assessment programs
- Work closely with test development managers, other content developers, psychometricians, and other Pearson groups
- Stay current with emerging technologies relevant to educational content creation and assessment, including AI
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Some travel required
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in education, content-specific area or equivalent degree required
- At least five years’ experience as an elementary or secondary teacher in the field of content-specific area preferred
- At least three years’ experience in large-scale educational measurement preferred
- Professional knowledge of content-specific area and educational trends required
- Experience leading assessment programs preferred
- General knowledge of all phases of the development, processing, scoring, and reporting of large-scale assessments required
- Demonstrated excellence in AI-supported content development, or clear evidence of strong potential and readiness to leverage AI effectively in content creation
- Experience or familiarity with prompting, refining, and evaluating AI-generated content for education and assessment purposes
- Broad knowledge of common software programs, strong technology skills, and the confidence necessary to work with unfamiliar programs
- Demonstrated interest in learning about and adapting to new AI technologies as they evolve
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills
- Skilled at creatively and flexibly addressing challenges with a variety of audiences
- Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills and ability to coordinate multiple activities and adapt to unexpected events
- Skill in evaluating and providing input on project schedules and process documents.
Benefits
- Eligible to participate in an annual incentive program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
content developmentassessment designitem developmenttest blueprintsaccessibility considerationsAI content generationeducational measurementdata reviewtest constructionproject scheduling
Soft Skills
communication skillsorganizational skillsproblem-solving skillsflexibilitycreativityteam leadershipcollaborationtrainingfeedback provisionadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in educationBachelor's degree in content-specific areaequivalent degree