# Assessment Leadership Role

**Company**: Western Governors University (WGU)
**Location**: Salt Lake City, UT
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $104,000.00 - $187,200.00
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

Provides leadership for the design, evaluation, and continuous improvement of assessments to ensure validity, reliability, fairness, and alignment with institutional goals.

This role leads a team of assessment strategists and psychometricians, driving the development and implementation of innovative assessment strategies that support student success and academic program integrity.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and supervise a team of assessment strategists and psychometricians, including hiring, onboarding, training, development, coaching, mentoring, and performance management.

- Establish the vision, strategy, and goals for assessment quality, innovation, and psychometric rigor across academic programs.

- Ensure assessments are valid, reliable, fair, and aligned with competency frameworks, accreditation standards, and institutional goals.

- Oversee the application of psychometric methods, including test design, calibration, equating, scaling, and statistical analysis of assessment data.

- Partner with academic and institutional leaders to define program-level and institution-wide success metrics for assessment.

- Ensure assessment strategies, instruments, and policies comply with accreditation, regulatory, and professional standards.

- Collaborate with curriculum, product, and faculty teams to align assessment strategies with program learning outcomes.

- Use assessment data and psychometric evidence to identify trends, evaluate program effectiveness, and recommend improvements.

- Provide reports, presentations, and recommendations to leadership based on assessment performance, validity studies, quality audits, and other relevant analyses.

- Monitor project timelines, resources, and budgets to ensure deliverables are completed on time and within scope.

- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by leveraging research, AI, and emerging technologies to advance assessment practices.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Psychometrics, Educational Measurement, Educational Psychology, Assessment, or a related field.

- Five (5) years of experience in assessment development, psychometrics, educational measurement, learning science, learning design, or instructional design, including at least two (2) years in a supervisory or team leadership role.

- Proven track record managing both the strategic and technical aspects of assessment design, validation, and evaluation.

Preferred Requirements:

- Experience working within competency-based, online, or large-scale assessment environments.

- Demonstrated experience implementing innovative assessment models and technologies.

- Demonstrated success stabilizing, structuring, and advancing complex or ambiguous initiatives.

Benefits:

- 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

- 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

- Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- Psychometrics
- Educational Measurement
- Assessment
- Leadership
- Project Management
- Data Analysis
- Communication

### Nice to have
- Competency-based education
- Online assessment environments
- Innovative assessment models
- Large-scale assessment environments

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