Learning Assessment Lead

Arizona State University•Scottsdale, AZ

8d•$85,000 - $95,000•Hybrid

About The Position

ASU EdPlus is seeking a Learning Assessment Lead to join its Digital Learning team. The role focuses on redesigning assessments with faculty to improve learning and academic integrity through course design, rather than relying on surveillance or proctoring. The successful candidate will develop assessment approaches that require situated, contextual, human work and produce verifiable evidence of student thinking, including performance tasks, oral defenses, assignments with visible drafting and revision, and professional-context portfolio artifacts. The Learning Assessment Lead works in a collaborative, cross-functional studio alongside data scientists, user experience researchers, product managers, instructional designers, multimedia producers, and faculty. The position also manages individuals who provide instructional design support to develop intermediate-to-complex resources and materials that support teaching and learning. This is an in-person, hybrid role based at the SkySong ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center; reliable commuting to Scottsdale, Arizona, is required. Flexible work options, including alternate and hybrid schedules, are subject to ASU policy and approval.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and five years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment or field, including two years of managerial experience; or an equivalent combination of experience and/or training demonstrating comparable knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Must be able to reliably commute to Scottsdale, Arizona, for this in-person, hybrid position.
Must be eligible to work in the United States; ASU EdPlus will not sponsor this position.
Application must include a cover letter and resume or CV.
Cover letter must answer questions about an assessment redesigned to change student engagement and how success was measured, and about navigating faculty resistance to an assessment redesign recommendation.

Nice To Haves

Ph.D., Ed.D., or equivalent terminal degree in a teaching discipline, learning sciences, or instructional design.
Experience as a higher education instructor of record, responsible for designing and grading assessments.
Demonstrated mastery of assessment theory, including backward design, constructive alignment, and AI-resilient modalities.
Demonstrated success leading faculty cohorts, learning communities, or university-wide design initiatives.
One or two college-level assessment artifacts, such as a performance task, rubric, oral defense protocol, or faculty redesign guide, may be required, along with documented impacts on student learning.

Responsibilities

Partner with faculty to co-create authentic assessments that replace traditional exams, including performance tasks, oral defenses, simulations, and process-visible portfolios, while moving away from surveillance and proctoring.
Document reusable assessment templates, rubrics, and implementation guides for adoption across disciplines.
Sequence assessments across degree programs so student evidence develops from course to course.
Recruit and lead discipline-aligned faculty cohorts through structured assessment transformation cycles.
Coach and mentor faculty as they translate learning science into practical, gradable course revisions.
Use backward design, constructive alignment, and cognitive load theory to guide assessment design decisions.
Work with cross-functional research teams to evaluate the effects of redesigned assessments on student learning, engagement, and persistence.
Manage individuals providing instructional design support in one or more units to develop intermediate-to-complex teaching and learning resources and materials.
Assume or coordinate other duties or projects as assigned or directed.