Assessment & Analytics Manager

Community College Preparatory Academy; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Community College Preparatory Academy (CCPrep) in Washington, DC seeks an Assessment Manager to lead and optimize the college's assessment system. You will oversee placement, diagnostic and summative assessments, train staff, and ensure secure, auditable records.

Your work supports program improvement and equitable outcomes for adult learners. You will collaborate with faculty and data teams to turn results into actionable instructional enhancements, while managing platforms and vendor

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in a relevant field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least five years of progressively responsible experience including project, program, or staff leadership.
• Demonstrated skill with data, documentation, cross-functional communication, and service-oriented problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain an institution-wide assessment calendar and administration protocols.
• Coordinate placement, diagnostic, formative, summative, credential-readiness, and required external assessments.
• Train staff on standardized administration, accommodations, security, scoring, and interpretation.
• Analyze results by course, program, learner group, and term; surface actionable patterns and equity gaps.
• Partner with instructors and data staff to connect assessment findings to instructional response.
• Maintain secure, auditable assessment records and vendor relationships.
• Implement a balanced assessment system that combines placement and diagnostic information, formative feedback, and summative demonstrations of learning.
• Verify that assessment tools and administration practices are appropriate to the skill measured and adult learner population; document validity, scoring consistency, accommodations, and interpretation limits.
• Link comparable baseline and subsequent results for individual learners; report academic growth separately from attendance, course completion, and credential pass rates.
• Provide timely, understandable results that instructors and learners can use to set goals, adjust instruction, and select interventions; check whether subsequent evidence shows progress.
• Support program evaluation and staff improvement inquiries with appropriate measures, secure data, and sound comparisons; inform assessment-related professional learning with learner needs.
• Promote fair and accessible assessment practices, including appropriate accommodations and review for avoidable bias; help staff use trustworthy results collaboratively and responsibly.
• Provide training, processes, and reliable information resources that strengthen assessment literacy and continuous improvement focused on individual learner needs.
• Serve as the operational owner for approved assessment and testing platforms—such as DRC/TABE, GED Manager, Pearson VUE/Certiport, FISDAP, ProctorU, and comparable systems—including rostering, accommodations, testing windows, security, score retrieval, vendor coordination, and reconciliation with learner records.

Skills

Data analysis

Cross-functional communication

Project leadership

Staff leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Graduate degree or related certification (preferred)

Tools

DRC/TABE

GED Manager

Pearson VUE/Certiport

FISDAP

ProctorU

Job description

Community College Preparatory Academy (CCPrep) in Washington, DC seeks an Assessment Manager to lead and optimize the college's assessment system. You will oversee placement, diagnostic and summative assessments, train staff, and ensure secure, auditable records.

Your work supports program improvement and equitable outcomes for adult learners. You will collaborate with faculty and data teams to turn results into actionable instructional enhancements, while managing platforms and vendor