Senior Alignment and Assessment Design Specialist

About this role

WHO WE ARE

Edmentum is a dynamic educator and student-focused company dedicated to tech-enabled learning solutions. Our goal is to ensure that all students have access to flexible learning environments and educators have the tools they need to support their students. We are on a mission to create innovative, proven learning technology, partnering with educators to ignite student potential. We are a Remote First organization with a strong commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Alignment and Assessment Design Specialist, you will own high-quality assessment and instructional content from concept through delivery, making sure every item, passage, and crosswalk is grounded in sound instructional design and aligned to the standards students are measured against. You will be the steady expert across your subject areas, the person who knows the lifecycle cold, partners across teams, and raises the bar on quality for everything the function ships.

In this role you will:

• Lead the development and refinement of assessment items, passages, and instructional content using a backwards design approach

• Develop CAS, assessment frameworks, and Task Model templates, and manage multi-round passage development with vendors

• Own state list submission work for your subject areas, including K to 8 correlations, ELPS crosswalks, and correlation CSV preparation

• Drive multi-round review and validation cycles and analyze field test data to recommend revisions

• Partner across curriculum, product, design, state strategy, and GTM teams as the subject-area content expert

• Stay current on early literacy research, phonics continuums, and Universal Screener design and share that knowledge across the team

Who You Are

• You have a Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred) in education, English, literacy, mathematics, social studies, science, instructional design, or a related field

• You have 4 or more years of experience in assessment development, standards alignment, or a related educational role, and K to 12 classroom or curriculum experience is valued

• You have an advanced command of assessment design, item-writing standards, and validation methodologies

• You apply backwards design fluently to ground assessment design in instructional approach, skill statements, and state standards

• You have experience with state summative assessment design across fixed form, benchmark, and adaptive formats, including blueprints, standard setting, and performance level descriptors

• You understand scoring logic and TEI scoring design, and you collaborate comfortably with psychometricians on validity