# Assessment Strategist

**Company**: Western Governors University (WGU)
**Location**: Salt Lake City, UT
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $88,600.00 - $132,900.00
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

The Assessment Strategist guides and supports the strategy, design, development, and maintenance of formative and high-stakes assessments within an assigned portfolio.

Responsibilities:

- Ensures alignment of assessments with best practices in competency-based education model and WGU assessment integrity policies.

- Provides thought leadership and strategic vision for the continuous improvement of student outcomes and overall health and quality of assessments.

- Ensures 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 to models for formative and summative assessments.

- Collaborates with internal and external partners throughout the design, development, and deployment of assessments.

- Collaborates with the technology, design, and development teams to ensure the creation and adoption of flexible, valid, reliable, data-driven assessment tools.

- As required, provides training, consultation, or guidance to team members and partners on assessment models, assessment design and development practices, and data-driven, evidence-based practices in assessment.

- Consults with Program Development and Psychometrics teams on scoring methods, rubric development, and other assessment tools and models.

- Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to explore and determine innovations and improvements to the existing student experience and processes based on data, key performance indicators, current practice, and emerging trends.

- Collaborates with peers across colleges to ensure continuity of process and strategy for assessments.

- Monitors assessment portfolio health across the assessment lifecycle.

- Achieves and reports on critical assessment metrics.

- Provides student-facing responses to student appeals.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.

- 3 years of relevant professional experience developing high-stakes 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.

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.

- Up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

## Skills

### Required
- assessment development
- competency-based education
- psychometrics
- test design

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