Director of Assessment – Remote/Hybrid

State-of-Missour; Missouri; Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education seeks a Director of Assessment to guide the statewide assessment program and oversee alignment with Missouri Learning Standards. This role requires collaboration with educators, LEAs, vendors, and state officials to drive high-quality assessment content and reporting.

The position is remote telework based out of Jefferson City with a six-week hybrid training period in Jefferson City; travel for on-site training and workshops is

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in education or a closely related field.
• Four years’ experience in curriculum development, standards implementation, instructional planning, professional learning, or educational support.
• Lack of post‐secondary education will not be used as the sole basis denying consideration.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and support for the Missouri Assessment Program, including Grade-Level, End-of-Course, MAP-Alternate, WIDA ACCESS, Personal Finance, and other statewide assessments.
• Assist the Missouri Assessment Program Manager and Standards, Curriculum and Assessment Coordinator in planning, organizing, directing, and coordinating assessment and curriculum activities.
• Provide contentexpertisefor the development and implementation of statewide assessments, including item writing, content review,biasand sensitivity review, scoring materials,itemand form selection, scoring monitoring, assessment manual review, training materials review, and performance level descriptor development.
• Support the development, implementation, and review of Missouri Learning Standards, curriculum resources, instructional guidance, and assessment materials.
• Provide technicalassistanceto department staff, LEAs, educators, families, and other educational entitiesregardingstandards, curriculum, instruction, assessment,accommodations, score reporting, and assessment-related questions.
• Collaborate with education officials, educators, curriculum leaders, assessment professionals, testing vendors, and other stakeholders to support the development and implementation of the Missouri Assessment Program.
• Collaborate with the curriculum staff in publications, workshops, webinars, professional learning materials, guidance documents, and other resources to support high-quality curriculum, instruction, assessment literacy, data use, reporting, and assessment implementation statewide.
• Demonstrate regular, reliable, and engaged attendance.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in education or related field

Job description

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education seeks a Director of Assessment to guide the statewide assessment program and oversee alignment with Missouri Learning Standards. This role requires collaboration with educators, LEAs, vendors, and state officials to drive high-quality assessment content and reporting.

The position is remote telework based out of Jefferson City with a six-week hybrid training period in Jefferson City; travel for on-site training and workshops is