Partner, School Design - Assessment
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TranscendEducation assessment
Remote (U.S.-based)Full-Time
Salary130,500 - 189,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Project Management
Requirements
- Have prior experience directly implementing K-12 assessments in schools.
- Bring foundational knowledge of psychometric principles, including validity, reliability, comparability, and bias.
- Translate technical psychometric rigor into practical guidance for educators.
- Bring curiosity about AI applications in assessment and discipline to test approaches rigorously before scaling.
- Demonstrate strong facilitation skills for inclusive design experiences with school and district teams.
- Bring an R&D orientation and willingness to learn, iterate, and improve approaches.
- Have strong project management and organizational skills, including the ability to manage multiple workstreams.
- Be able to self-manage, navigate ambiguity, structure your time, and adapt as plans change.
- Build relationships across stakeholders, including students, families, teachers, school leaders, district leaders, and funders.
- Be willing to travel approximately 30% of the time, roughly once a month.
Responsibilities
- Define project success, milestones, deliverables, and metrics, and build project plans aligned to goals and local context.
- Manage project expenses against the approved budget and communicate progress to support timely, quality delivery.
- Lead project teams by establishing collaboration structures, clarifying roles and work, and fostering a constructive team culture.
- Support the cultivation and stewardship of school partners, funders, and system leaders.
- Support prospective project and grant scoping with the Managing Partner.
- Contribute to the Evidence team’s learning about assessment and accountability systems.
- Share field experiences and examples of innovative assessment practices with internal and external audiences.
- Work with school and district teams to pilot, implement, and strengthen assessment practices and tools.
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