Assessment Development Scientist

Department: Measurement Services

Salary Hiring Range: $88,000- 105,000 annually (paid bi-weekly)

NOTE: Competitive salary commensurate with experience

FLSA: Exempt

Career Summary:

Serves as leader of operational psychometrics. Ensures validity, reliability, and psychometric soundness of all certification programs, including exams, portfolio programs, and certificate programs. Conducts psychometric analyses, standard settings, item reviews, and national job analyses. Manages test development and monitors item functioning and psychometric properties of forms.

Education:

Master’s degree or equivalent in industrial-organizational (I/O) psychology, testing and measurement, psychometrics, research and statistics, or related field.

Related Work Experience:

Three years of full-time professional experience, with minimum one year of project management and two years of assessment development, job analysis, psychometrics, or equivalent.

Skills:

Test construction, development of alternative items, and test validation; job analysis; research design and completion, survey development and administration, and data analysis; meeting facilitation; oral and written communication; use of office computer software (e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and statistical software (e.g., SAS, SPSS); analytical thinking; public relations and customer service; and writing technical reports.

Ability to organize, manage, and complete multiple ongoing projects and tasks; accurately attend to details; adapt to changing priorities and work demands; take initiative; work autonomously with limited supervision; and work collaboratively and effectively within a team.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

Doctorate in I/O psychology, testing and measurement, research and statistics, psychometrics, or related field. Experience using item banking software and with healthcare-related job analysis or assessment development.

Work Schedule:

Hybrid: Employees are required to work a minimum of 20% in an ANA office.

Location:

Our main office is located at: 8515 Georgia Ave., Suite 400, Silver Spring, MD 20910

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Equal Opportunity Employer:

The ANA is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.