AI-Driven Content & Assessment Specialist (K-12)

Pearson; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson seeks a Specialist in Content Development to create and review assessment content for K-12 state and district clients. You will develop items, passages, and test specifications, using AI tools to enhance quality and accessibility while collaborating with educators and Pearson teams.

You will also train writers, support customer meetings, and stay current with AI technologies to improve assessment content and processes across grade levels.

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
• Demonstrated excellence in AI-supported content development, or clear evidence of strong potential and readiness to leverage AI effectively in content creation
• Experience or familiarity with prompting, refining, and evaluating AI-generated content for education purposes
• Skill in basic software tools and technology and the confidence necessary to work with unfamiliar programs
• Demonstrated interest in learning about and adapting to new AI technologies as they evolve
• 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 event

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
• Leverage AI-powered tools to support the development, review, and enhancement of assessment content, ensuring outputs meet quality and accessibility standards
• Collaborate with team members to integrate AI-generated assets in assessment workflows, providing feedback using content and educational expertise
• 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
• Stay current with emerging technologies relevant to educational content creation and assessment, including AI
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

AI-supported content development

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Prompt engineering

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in education

Job description

Pearson seeks a Specialist in Content Development to create and review assessment content for K-12 state and district clients. You will develop items, passages, and test specifications, using AI tools to enhance quality and accessibility while collaborating with educators and Pearson teams.

You will also train writers, support customer meetings, and stay current with AI technologies to improve assessment content and processes across grade levels.