Assessment Manager

Community College Preparatory Academy Public Charter Schools•Washington, DC

2h•$80,000 - $110,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Assessment Manager owns and maintains a trustworthy, institution-wide assessment system that shows what students know, identifies where support is needed, and helps determine whether instruction is producing intended outcomes. The role coordinates assessment administration and provides instructors, learners, and leaders with timely, dependable evidence to guide instruction, learner goals, interventions, and program improvement. The position oversees placement, diagnostic, formative, summative, credential-readiness, and required external assessments. It verifies that assessment tools and practices are appropriate to the skills measured and the adult learner population, and promotes accessible, fair administration with appropriate accommodations, consistent scoring, and transparent limits on interpretation. The manager analyzes results across courses, programs, learner groups, and terms; links comparable results to measure individual academic growth; and keeps growth distinct from attendance, course completion, and credential pass rates. The Assessment Manager trains staff, supports assessment literacy and continuous improvement, maintains secure and auditable records, and partners with instructors and data staff to connect findings to instructional and student-support actions. The position is the operational owner of approved assessment and testing platforms and coordinates their rosters, accommodations, testing windows, security, score retrieval, vendor relationships, and reconciliation with learner records. The role is in Academic Affairs, reports to the Chief Academic Officer, and directly supervises the Assessment Coordinator and any assigned assessment staff, proctors, or temporary testing personnel. It is full-time and exempt, campus based in Washington, DC, with a salary band of $80,000–$110,000 annually. The work is primarily campus and office based, involves sustained computer use and frequent interaction with staff, students, vendors, or partners, and may require some evening, weekend, or off-site work. Essential duties must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or an equivalent combination of education and directly related experience.
At least five years of progressively responsible experience, including project, program, or staff leadership.
Demonstrated skill with data, documentation, cross-functional communication, and service-oriented problem solving.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with standardized-assessment, test-center, remote-proctoring, credential-testing, or adult-education assessment platforms.
Graduate degree or recognized professional certification related to the function.
Experience in adult education, workforce development, public charter education, or a nonprofit setting.
Experience establishing practical controls, dashboards, and continuous-improvement routines.

Responsibilities

Create and maintain an institution-wide assessment calendar and administration protocols.
Coordinate placement, diagnostic, formative, summative, credential-readiness, and required external assessments.
Train staff on standardized administration, accommodations, security, scoring, and interpretation.
Analyze results by course, program, learner group, and term, and surface actionable patterns and equity gaps.
Partner with instructors and data staff to connect assessment findings to instructional responses.
Maintain secure, auditable assessment records and vendor relationships.
Implement a balanced assessment system combining placement and diagnostic information, formative feedback, and summative demonstrations of learning.
Verify assessment tools and administration practices are appropriate to the skill measured and adult learner population; document validity, scoring consistency, accommodations, and interpretation limits.
Link comparable baseline and subsequent results for individual learners, and report academic growth separately from attendance, course completion, and credential pass rates.
Provide timely, understandable results that instructors and learners can use to set goals, adjust instruction, and select interventions; check whether subsequent evidence shows progress.
Support program evaluation and staff improvement inquiries with appropriate measures, secure data, and sound comparisons; inform assessment-related professional learning with learner needs.
Promote fair and accessible assessment practices, including appropriate accommodations and review for avoidable bias; help staff use trustworthy results collaboratively and responsibly.
Provide training, processes, and reliable information resources that strengthen assessment literacy and continuous improvement focused on individual learner needs.
Own approved assessment and testing platforms, including rostering, accommodations, testing windows, security, score retrieval, vendor coordination, and reconciliation with learner records.
Directly supervise the Assessment Coordinator and any assigned assessment staff, proctors, or temporary testing personnel.
Ensure assessment administrations are timely, secure, accessible, and complete; results are available within established turnaround standards; and data reviews lead to documented instructional or student-support actions.
Ensure assessment records reconcile across source systems and reports and support comparable growth measures, consistent scoring, appropriate accommodations, and transparent limits on conclusions.
Document assessment accessibility, accommodations, scoring quality, interpretation limits, staff support, and follow-up on disparities or barriers.
Ensure platform rosters, testing records, accommodations, scores, and learner identifiers reconcile across assessment and student-record systems, resolving and documenting exceptions.