Learning Assessment Lead

Arizona State University • Scottsdale, AZ

7d • 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, shifting from surveillance and proctoring toward authentic tasks that require situated, contextual, human work and provide verifiable evidence of student thinking. The position partners with faculty to create assessment approaches such as performance tasks, oral defenses, simulations, process-visible portfolios, and assignments that incorporate drafting and revision.

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 role develops reusable assessment patterns that can be adopted across disciplines and scaled across courses and degree programs. It also supports faculty through cohorts and individual coaching, applies learning science to design decisions, and collaborates with research teams to evaluate effects on student learning, engagement, and persistence.

This is an in-person, hybrid position based at the SkySong ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center. The employee must be able to reliably commute to Scottsdale, Arizona, and must be eligible to work in the United States. ASU EdPlus will not sponsor this position.

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.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States; ASU EdPlus will not sponsor this position.

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 designed by the applicant, such as a performance task, rubric, oral defense protocol, or faculty redesign guide, potentially accompanied by documented impacts on student learning.

Responsibilities

• Partner with faculty to replace traditional exams with performance tasks, oral defenses, simulations, and process-visible portfolios, 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 builds logically from course to course.
• Recruit and lead discipline-aligned faculty working groups through structured assessment transformation cycles.
• Coach faculty as they translate learning science into practical, gradable course revisions.
• Apply backward design, constructive alignment, and cognitive load theory to guide faculty decision-making.
• Partner with cross-functional research teams to evaluate how redesigned assessments affect student learning, engagement, and persistence.
• Assume or coordinate other duties or projects as assigned or directed.

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Financial security benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Family resources
• Tuition reduction for eligible ASU employees, their dependents, and spouse
• Discounts
• Flexible work options, including alternate or hybrid work schedules, subject to approvals under ASU policy

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior