Assessment Specialist - English Language Arts

Description As an Assessment Specialist within the Asset Creation team, you will work as both a content and assessment expert to develop K-12 assessments for our state and district clients. Our team develops standards-based assessments for students across the United States. We collaborate with education departments, committees of educators, and business partners to develop assessments of learning that are accessible to all students. We are looking for flexible and creative content experts to join our team. Responsibilities: ● Develop and review content-specific test items, including multiple choice, technology enhanced, extended response, cluster sets, performance-based tasks, and simulations across multiple grade levels for large-scale assessments ● Help develop item, passage, and test specifications, item development plans, test blueprints, and other ancillary documents ● Help select, assign, manage, and train item/passage writers and educators to develop items based on standards, cognitive complexity, and item development best practices ● Facilitate and support customer meetings and provide content assessment expertise ● Facilitate activities related to test construction and review of composed test forms ● Consult with the customer as required, including participation in planning, status, review meetings, etc. ● Work closely with test development managers, other content developers, psychometricians, and other Pearson groups ● Perform other duties as assigned ● Some travel required Qualifications: ● Bachelor's degree in education, content-specific area, or equivalent experience required ● Five years’ experience as an elementary or secondary teacher in the field of content-specific area preferred ● Professional knowledge of content-specific area and educational trends required ● Some experience in large-scale educational measurement preferred ● General knowledge of all phases of the development, processing, scoring, and reporting of large-scale assessments preferred ● Outstanding oral and written communication skills ● Ability to creatively and flexibly address challenges with a variety of audiences ● Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills and the ability to work on multiple activities and adapt to unexpected events ● Skill in basic software tools and technology and the confidence necessary to work with unfamiliar programs Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York State, New York City, Vermont, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is as follows: The minimum full-time salary range is between $65,000 - $75,000. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here. Applications will be accepted through Monday, January 5th, 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs. Offer info Legal Employer NCS Pearson, Inc Business Unit Assessment & Qualifications Department SA Servs - CDS Content Workplace Posting Keyword Remote Job Tier IC20 Job Content Developer (LC406) Associated Pearson Office US-TX-Austin-400 Center Ridge Attachments After attachments are added, you can see them here. Configuration Candidate Selection Process Global Candidate Selection Process - PEI_GlobalCSP_V5 External Application Flow External Application Flow - PEI_USApp_Flow_V1 Allow Candidates to Apply When Not Posted No Automatically Open Requisition for Sourcing No Automatically Fill Requisition No Prescreening questions ReorderInternalExternal • 1. As an internal candidate, have you ensured you meet the criteria required to apply to an internal role? Code 300002389467023 Type Single Choice Score Response Required Yes Classification Disqualification • 2. Have you been informed that your role is being impacted by restructuring? Apply tot his job