Senior Psychometrician

Job Overview

The Senior Psychometrician will provide oversight of the technical quality of educational assessment activities.

Job Responsibilities

• Heads technical operational and research projects
• Plans, coordinates, and performs statistical review for basic and complex projects.
• Provides guidance and oversight to project staff on technical aspects of their work.
• Works autonomously on most phases of statistical and/or psychometric examination and provides guidance to less experienced psychometricians.
• Represents organization's position on technical issues to clients, and external boards and panels.
• Accountable for statistical design such as Variance Estimations (weighting), Sample Design, Statistical Modeling, and Psychometrics.
• Ensures quality control of deliverables.
• Designs, develops and documents technical and operational procedures and statistical guidelines.
• Applies advanced knowledge of statistical procedures, Psychometric methods and their applications and statistical programming (e.g., R).

Job Requirements

• Ph.D. in Statistics, Education Measurement, Psychometrics, Psychological Measurement, or related field with an emphasis on quantitative research or Psychometrics.
• Advanced training in Psychometric research and Statistics including Item Response Theory, Scaling and Equating, Computer Adaptive Testing, Sample Design and and Longitudinal Data Analysis.
• At least 4 years of professional experience, including with assessment systems, Sampling Theory and Item Response Theory.
• Ability to work effectively as a member of a team in a consulting environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Why Work With Us?

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

In the 2021–2022 school year, we delivered more than 100 million online tests, successfully supported peak testing volumes exceeding 1.3 million simultaneous test takers,  while ensuring an average response time of less than a tenth of a second. We have the most advanced features of any online testing system, and we continue to push boundaries to improve student performance measurement and enabling educators with actionable insights to drive better overall educational outcomes for our students. To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit www.cambiumassessment.com

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, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.