Remote Senior Assessment & Alignment Designer

Edmentum; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Job summary

Edmentum is seeking a Senior Alignment and Assessment Design Specialist to own high-quality assessment content from concept through delivery. You will lead item-writing, standards alignment, and cross-functional collaboration with curriculum, product, and state strategy teams.

This Remote First role requires expertise in backwards design, state submissions for K-12, and psychometric validity. The salary range is $85,000–$100,000 USD, with comprehensive benefits and a strong commitment to pay

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in education, English, literacy, mathematics, social studies, science, instructional design, or related field.
• 4+ years in assessment development, standards alignment or related educational role; K-12 experience valued.
• Advanced command of assessment design, item-writing standards, and validation methodologies.
• Able to apply backwards design to ground assessment design in instructional approach and state standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and refinement of assessment items, passages, and instructional content using backwards design.
• Develop CAS, assessment frameworks, and Task Model templates; manage multi-round passage development with vendors.
• Own state list submissions for subject areas, including K-8 correlations, ELPS crosswalks, and CSV preparation.
• Drive multi-round review and validation cycles; analyze field test data to recommend revisions.
• Partner across curriculum, product, design, state strategy, and GTM teams as subject-area content expert.
• Stay current on early literacy research, phonics continuums, and Universal Screener design.

Skills

Assessment design

Standards alignment

Backwards design

Item writing

Validation methods

Vendor coordination

K-8 correlations

ELPS crosswalks

TEI scoring

Excel skills

State submissions

Cross-team collab

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's preferred

Tools

Excel

Job description

Edmentum is seeking a Senior Alignment and Assessment Design Specialist to own high-quality assessment content from concept through delivery. You will lead item-writing, standards alignment, and cross-functional collaboration with curriculum, product, and state strategy teams.

This Remote First role requires expertise in backwards design, state submissions for K-12, and psychometric validity. The salary range is $85,000–$100,000 USD, with comprehensive benefits and a strong commitment to pay