Full-Time Manager, Listening Test Development

• Manage test development staff who write, review, revise, and select Listening test items
• Evaluate test items for item difficulty, oral language features, linguistic complexity, grade-level appropriateness
• Give clear, constructive, and timely feedback to test developers on test item text and graphics
• Sign off on test item content at the end of each phase of the item development cycle
• Work in close collaboration with managers and directors across functional teams and partner organizations to coordinate efforts
• Produce and execute project plans and timelines for test item development in coordination with client and other vendors
• Oversee the development and revision of item specifications and sign off on revisions
• Coordinate the recruitment and contracting of consultant item writers and reviewers
• Ensure test development staff follow quality control and test security procedures
• Review and approve test maps, test forms, ancillary documents, test practice items, and sample items for the public
• Set functional team goals and expectations for Listening test development
• Monitor progress and performance of staff completing Listening test development tasks
• Mentor test development staff in their job duties and professional goals

• Master’s degree in a relevant field
• Expertise in the development of large-scale English oral language proficiency assessments for K-12 multilingual learners
• Experience supervising the development of test items in a high-stakes context
• Experience managing complex assessment projects
• Deep familiarity with the oral language that K-12 multilingual learners must understand to be successful in U.S. school settings

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