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Executive Administrator - 73878
The Executive Administrator provides administrative oversight of organization operations in Smarter Balanced. The incumbent serves as a key advisor overseeing administrative services while helping to establish strategic goals, operational objectives, and work plans. The Executive Administrator delegates assignments across the organization related to operations and planning and is responsible for preparing, administering, and directing resources. Success in this role requires ingenuity, discretion, and flexibility.
Initial Review Date: 11-06-2024 (posted until filled)
Senior Director of NAEP - 74087
The incumbent will lead and provide oversight, direction, and supervision to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) team within the Smarter Balanced program. This position is responsible for ensuring that Smarter Balanced creates dynamic, accurate, and timely content for presentations and trainings that will directly support the ability of NAEP coordinators to promote and implement the National Assessment of Educational Progress effectively.
Similarly, the Senior Director of NAEP will provide oversight regarding developing and implementing Professional Learning Plans for each of the 80 NAEP coordinators housed in each state and large urban school district. Further, this position will provide oversight for the Ambassador program that engages with each Chief State School Officer and large urban district in the nation and provides consultation regarding how to use information from NAEP to inform their educational policies.
The NAEP team's position is based on a time/material contract with the National Center for Educational Statistics and, therefore, this position will need to establish time keeping systems that provide detailed documentation of the hourly allocation of effort from each staff and contractors.
Initial Review Date: 11-13-2024 (posted until filled)
This position is assigned to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) team within the Smarter Balanced program. The incumbent applies a strong knowledge of multiple project management frameworks (e.g. waterfall, Agile, etc.) to recommend, implement, and administer methods and techniques for managing multiple team projects. Primary responsibilities include applying relevant policies and procedures to resolve a wide range of issues related to the initiation, planning, execution, and closing of the project while managing documentation and mitigation of project risks.
Initial Review Date: 11-18-2024 (posted until filled)
Director of Accessibility and Inclusion in Assessment - 74269
Smarter Balanced is a national leader in providing an accessible and inclusive assessment system. The Director of Accessibility and Inclusion is assigned primary responsibility for leading the organization's development of an accessible and inclusive assessment system. The incumbent uses advanced professional concepts and objectives to address and resolve complex policy or program issues and works on significant, strategic, highly visible issues and problems requiring political sensitivity, where analysis of circumstances and information requires an in-depth evaluation of factors.
Initial Review Date: 11-25-2024 (posted until filled)
This position is assigned to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) team within the Smarter Balanced program. The incumbent applies their knowledge of the analytical practices, policies and procedures used in educational assessment in order to support and train NAEP coordinators and ambassadors in their respective state agencies. Primary responsibilities include researching, analyzing, and developing solutions and providing consultation to non-technical audiences on a wide range of issues associated with large-scale assessment.
To provide effective support, successful performance will require the incumbent to actively develop and maintain an understanding of the dynamic educational policies occurring in each state.
Initial Review Date: 11-26-2024 (posted until filled)
NAEP Professional Development Specialist - 74328
In support of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) team within the Smarter Balanced program, this position uses skills in instructional design, multimedia development, and learning management systems to help shape the content for presentations and training that will support the ability of the NAEP coordinators to promote and effectively implement the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Incumbents work with internal and external executives and clients in identifying and responding to states' diverse needs and developing teacher resources that serve as the "what's next" answer to Smarter assessments.
Initial Review Date: 11-27-2024 (posted until filled)
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