Assessment Manager

About the job

About Us:

DataCamp is on a mission to make the world data fluent by building the future of data education. We help both businesses and individuals to up-skill, re-skill, and transition from learning to doing data science through our training, certification and collaboration tools.Today we have 400+ interactive courses, 270+ expert instructors, 90+ real-life projects and we consistently upgrade our learning products and services to continuously deliver value to consumer, teams and enterprise customers.Since our launch in 2013, more than 11 million learners around the world have completed hundreds of millions of DataCamp content items. More than 3,500 businesses and government entities worldwide use DataCamp to make their teams and organisations data fluent.Funded by Spectrum Equity, Accomplice and Arthur Ventures, our ambition is to grow to $100M ARR in the next few years. Headquartered in NY, we have offices in London and Leuven with about 200 colleagues working together out of our major hubs or remotely.

About the Role:

As an Assessment Manager at DataCamp you will be part of a growing team creating and maintaining our expanding library of assessments; from measuring learning progress to certifying job readiness for roles such as Data Scientists and Data Engineers.You will take full ownership of the assessments assigned to you from creating the initial content with item writers, to ensuring candidates receive accurate results in a timely manner from the grading team. You will be directly responsible for ensuring the contract item writers and graders connected to your assessments are successful in their roles.You will be expected to take ownership of the quality of the content produced, ensuring that assessments are valid, reliable and fair to all candidates, using data to drive continuous quality improvements.

Responsibilities:

As an assessment manager you will be responsible for:

• Leading the creation of assessment and certification content to a pre-defined specification
• Ensuring all live assessments adhere to the quality standards required for their intended purpose, ensuring that content is revised and/or replaced as needed
• Working with the Certification advisory panel to retain assessment validity
• Managing the day to day work of item writers, defining tasks and deadlines for work and ensuring quality guidelines are followed in the creation of content
• Collating the work of item writers to be deployed into live assessments, conducting fairness reviews as needed
• Working with graders to ensure practical exams maintain high levels of reliability
• Working with the Head of Certification Content to ensure the item writing and grading teams are set up to succeed, including supporting hiring as needed
• Providing continual feedback to stakeholders on the status of all assessment content and identifying ways to improve processes to ensure the highest standard of quality.

The Ideal Candidate:

• At least two years of experience in education focused on the development and maintenance of learning and/or assessment materials. Experience in high stakes testing is preferable but not required
• Strong understanding of assessment practice including approaches to assessment
• Able to explain the requirements for creating valid, reliable and fair content to others and identify adherence to those requirements in test items
• Highly organized with the ability to create a realistic project plan and execute it
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• Able to give specific, actionable feedback to item writers and graders
• Experience working with data and able to conduct analysis in R, Python or SQL