ELA Content & Assessment Specialist — AI-Enabled

Pearson; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Specialist within the Content Development team to develop K-12 assessments for state and district clients. You will work as both a content and assessment expert to create standards-based items and collaborate with educators, departments, and partners to ensure accessibility and high quality across grades.

You will use AI-powered tools for item development, review, and enhancement, and help train writers, support customer meetings, and stay current with new AI technologies

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in education, content-specific area, or equivalent experience.
• 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.
• Demonstrated excellence in AI-supported content development, or 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and review content-specific test items across 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

Communication skills

AI proficiency

Adaptability

Problem solving

Planning and organizing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AI tools familiarity

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Specialist within the Content Development team to develop K-12 assessments for state and district clients. You will work as both a content and assessment expert to create standards-based items and collaborate with educators, departments, and partners to ensure accessibility and high quality across grades.

You will use AI-powered tools for item development, review, and enhancement, and help train writers, support customer meetings, and stay current with new AI technologies