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WGU is seeking an Associate Assessment Strategist to ensure the alignment of assessments with competency-based education best practices while providing input for improving student outcomes in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include aligning assessments with best practices, improving student outcomes, translating requirements into specifications, collaborating on assessment design, and achieving critical assessment metrics.

Skills: Required skills include knowledge of assessment development practices, problem-solving abilities, data analysis, relationship-building, and project management.

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 2 years of experience in educational assessment development.

Location: This job is located in Salt Lake City, UT, with a hybrid schedule of 4 days in-office and 1 day remote.

Compensation: $71300 - $107000 / Annually

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Grade: Faculty 506Pay Range: $71,300.00 - $107,000.00

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensures alignment of assessments with best practices in competency-based education model and WGU assessment integrity policies.
• Provides input for the continuous improvement of student outcomes and overall health and quality assessments.
• Understands and supports the alignment of assessment traverse with proficiencies, skills and competencies in programs, courses, and non-degree offerings.
• Translates requirements into clearly defined specifications and actions.
• Contributes by recommending enhancements/changes to models for formative and summative assessments.
• Collaborates with internal and external partners throughout the design, development, and deployment of assessments.
• Collaborate with Assessment Strategists and Senior Assessment Strategists regarding the technology, design, and development to ensure the creation and adoption of flexible, valid, reliable, data-driven assessment tools.
• Consults with Program Development and Psychometrics teams on scoring methods, rubric development, and other assessment tools and models.
• Supports cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders to explore innovations and improvements to the existing student experience and processes based on data, key performance indicators, current practice, and emerging trends.
• Collaborate with peers across colleges to ensure continuity of process and strategy for assessments.
• Achieves and reports on critical assessment metrics.
• Provides student-facing responses to student appeals.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Location: This position requires you to work at our headquarters, 4001 South 700 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84107. You would work a hybrid schedule in the office 4 days a week with one day remote.

This job description includes a general representation of job requirements rather than a comprehensive inventory of all required responsibilities or work activities. The contents of this document or related job requirements may change at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrated knowledge of assessment development practices
• Demonstrated ability to proactively and creatively solve problems related to assessment design and development
• Practical understanding of teaching and learning, educational trends and research
• Demonstrated skill in providing training as well as persuasively explaining assessment policy and best practices
• Ability to analyze data to identify trends and drive improvement
• Ability to build relationships and work effectively in a highly matrixed organization
• Excellent organizational and project management skills, including the ability to effectively handle multiple tasks and pay attention to detail.

Education          

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Experience

• 2 years of relevant professional experience developing educational or licensure assessments at the course or program level.
• Experience with contemporary assessment practices and technology (e.g., adaptive assessment, competency-based assessment, psychometrics, technology-enhanced items, prototyping and validating new item types, test designs, etc.).
• Experience facilitating workshops

Additional Requirements

• Ability to work a student-friendly schedule (evenings/weekends)
• Qualifications, licensure, and certifications vary by degree programs and may be required for some degree programs.
• State and/or federal legislative requirements and/or college accreditation requirements may apply to maintain the necessary credentialing for this role.

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

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Position & Application Details

Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual, flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply: If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive.

Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected].

Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.