What are the responsibilities and job description for the Psychometrician position at Cambium Assessment?
Cambium Assessment is a leading provider of online assessments that shape the educational outcomes for millions of students. We are pleased to share that we are hiring a Psychometrician. As a new member of our team, our Psychometrician will provide oversight of the technical quality of educational assessment and analysis activities.
Location: Must reside in USA
Job Responsibilities
When you work with Cambium Assessment, you’ll be helping to design and build inspiring solutions that make a real impact on the online testing industry, as well as the educators and students we support.
Our Ground Breaking Work Includes
Remote First Work Environment
Our Remote First approach gives employees the flexibility and trust they need to effectively balance work with life. It creates a culture in which all employees are valued and where success is measured in results. It allows us to work collaboratively, inclusively and for greater positive impact, regardless of our individual locations.
If you will be working remotely, either occasionally or on a permanent basis, you must have a reliable internet connection through a cable or fiber-optic broadband service with minimum speeds of 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload.
The successful candidate will be expected to actively participate in video-based interviews during the recruiting process and ongoing virtual meetings with their camera on, as part of their role.
As part of our Remote-First benefits, Cambium offers reimbursement to help cover the cost of setting up your home or remote office.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender, gender identity/expression, or sexual orientation), national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or genetic information (including family medical history).
We will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. You may request an accommodation during the recruiting process with your Talent Acquisition team member.
Location: Must reside in USA
Job Responsibilities
- Leads technical operational and research projects.
- Ensures quality control of deliverables.
- Performs and monitors statistical analyses required for data reporting and interpretation of results.
- Conducts research and special analyses and contributes to the development of data interpretation materials and publications.
- Assists in planning, coordinating and conducting statistical work for assigned area. Accountable for basic statistical design and analysis decisions.
- Assists in developing, designing and documenting technical and operational procedures and statistical guidelines.
- Represents organization's position on technical issues to professional associations and other agencies.
- Applies sufficient knowledge of statistical procedures, psychometric methods and statistical programming to work autonomously on most aspects of statistical analysis work, while receiving instruction and guidance in other aspects.
- Ph.D. in Statistics, Psychological Measurement, Education Measurement, Psychometrics, or related field with an emphasis on quantitative analysis or psychometrics.
- Training in psychometric research and statistics. Examples may include item response theory, scaling and equating, Monte Carlo methods, sample design and computer programming.
- Related experience, including assessment systems, sampling theory and item response theory.
- Ability to work effectively as a member of a team in a consulting environment.
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills in both written and spoken English.
- Excellent computer programming skills, especially with R programming.
When you work with Cambium Assessment, you’ll be helping to design and build inspiring solutions that make a real impact on the online testing industry, as well as the educators and students we support.
Our Ground Breaking Work Includes
- Advanced computer-adaptive algorithms
- Mobile support of user interfaces
- Learning management systems with social media features
- Universally accessible user interfaces
- Machine scorable items
Remote First Work Environment
Our Remote First approach gives employees the flexibility and trust they need to effectively balance work with life. It creates a culture in which all employees are valued and where success is measured in results. It allows us to work collaboratively, inclusively and for greater positive impact, regardless of our individual locations.
If you will be working remotely, either occasionally or on a permanent basis, you must have a reliable internet connection through a cable or fiber-optic broadband service with minimum speeds of 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload.
The successful candidate will be expected to actively participate in video-based interviews during the recruiting process and ongoing virtual meetings with their camera on, as part of their role.
As part of our Remote-First benefits, Cambium offers reimbursement to help cover the cost of setting up your home or remote office.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender, gender identity/expression, or sexual orientation), national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or genetic information (including family medical history).
We will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. You may request an accommodation during the recruiting process with your Talent Acquisition team member.
