Assessment Manager

Community College Preparatory Academy; Washington (District of Columbia); Sur place; USD 80 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

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.

Responsabilités

• 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.

Connaissances

Data analysis

Cross-functional communication

Project leadership

Staff leadership

Problem solving

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Graduate degree or related certification (preferred)

Outils

DRC/TABE

GED Manager

Pearson VUE/Certiport

FISDAP

ProctorU

Description du poste

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Assessment Manager

A & T FullTime Washington, DC, US

3 days ago Requisition ID: 1036

Salary Range: $80,000.00 To $110,000.00 Annually

Community College Preparatory Academy

Assessment Manager

Department: Academic Affairs

Reports to:Chief Academic Officer

Status: Full-time; exempt

Location: Washington, DC / campus based

Salary band: $80,000-$110,000 annually

Supervisory responsibilities: Directly supervises the Assessment Coordinator and any assigned assessment staff, proctors, or temporary testing personnel.

Our mission

Community College Preparatory Academy (CCPrep) creates an innovative and rigorous learning environment for adults who are under-credited or have aged out of traditional K-12 pathways. We respond to each learner’s strengths and barriers while preparing students for employment, postsecondary education, industry credentials, and lifelong learning.

The opportunity

Own a trustworthy assessment system that shows what students know, where support is needed, and whether instruction is producing the intended outcomes.

Why this role matters for students

Your work helps instructors intervene earlier, helps students understand their progress, and gives leaders dependable evidence for program improvement.

Cognia connections Culture of Learning, Leadership for Learning, Engagement of Learning, and Growth in Learning | Standards 1-2, 5-7, 11, 14-15, 17, 22, 24-31. These responsibilities apply within this position’s assigned authority.

• 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.

What strong performance looks like

• Assessment administrations are timely, secure, accessible, and complete.
• Results are available to staff within established turnaround standards.
• Data reviews lead to documented instructional or student-support actions.
• Required assessment records reconcile across source systems and reports.
• Specific annual targets and milestones will be established in the employee’s performance plan and aligned with the approved school operating plan.
• Assessment records support comparable growth measures, consistent scoring, appropriate accommodations, and transparent limits on conclusions.
• Results are returned in time to guide instruction and learner goals, and follow-up records show how staff used the findings.
• Assessment reviews document accessibility, accommodations, scoring quality, interpretation limits, staff support, and follow-up on disparities or barriers.
• Platform rosters, testing records, accommodations, scores, and learner identifiers reconcile across assessment and student-record systems, with exceptions resolved and documented.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or an equivalent combination of education and directly related 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.

Preferred qualifications

• Hands-on experience with standardized-assessment, test-center, remote-proctoring, credential-testing, or adult-education assessment platforms.
• Graduate degree or recognized professional certification related to the function.
• Experience in adult education, workforce development, public charter education, or a nonprofit setting.
• Experience establishing practical controls, dashboards, and continuous-improvement routines.

Core ways of working

• Centers adult learners, values their backgrounds and abilities, and respects their voice and choices.
• Communicates clearly, follows through, and raises risks early.
• Uses evidence, protects confidentiality, and documents work so others can rely on it.
• Collaborates across units and uses resources responsibly.
• Uses feedback and role-appropriate evidence to test improvements, apply professional learning, and review results.

Work environment and essential capabilities

Primarily campus and office based, with sustained computer use and frequent interaction with staff, students, vendors, or partners. Some evening, weekend, or off-site work may be required. Essential duties must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.

CCPrep provides equal employment opportunity without regard to any characteristic protected by federal or District of Columbia law. Qualified applicants and employees may request reasonable accommodation for the application process or to perform essential job functions. Any required background, credential, driving-record, or employment-history review will occur in accordance with applicable law and at the appropriate stage of the hiring process. Employment may be contingent on satisfactory completion of job-related screening.

This description identifies the role’s principal responsibilities and essential functions. It does not create an employment contract and may be revised to reflect lawful, mission-related organizational needs. Related duties may be assigned when consistent with the role’s purpose and qualifications.