As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world. UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. The University of Washington (UW) is proud to be one of the nation's premier educational and research institutions. Our people are the most important asset in our pursuit of achieving excellence in education, research, and community service. Our staff not only enjoy outstanding benefits and professional growth opportunities, but also an environment noted for diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. Cultivate Learning at the College of Education fosters the quality that makes access to learning meaningful. Backed by the University of Washington, our research-powered innovations and hands-on partnership create a fertile environment for smarter teaching and learning. We advance opportunities by lowering barriers to entering the profession and guiding educators to success. And we identify the building blocks of quality along with the path to use them - in Washington State and across the country. Every child deserves to flourish from a foundation of quality learning. This core belief drives our work to provide talented learning professionals with the support they need to build that foundation. At Cultivate Learning, we translate insight into learning opportunities. Cultivate Learning is funded by the Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) and provides training and research on the quality of childcare and early learning in Washington State. Currently, Cultivate Learning is involved in the Washington State Quality Recognition and Improvement System (QRIS) standards initiative, Early Achievers. Cultivate Learning is an essential part of Washington's early learning system to give childcare providers the support and skills they need in order to help children develop the skills they need to be successful in school. Cultivate Learning has an outstanding opportunity for a Lead Quality Recognition Specialist. This Lead will work closely with the Records Review manager. This position will be remotely based. The Lead must be located within Washington State to have proximity and access to Cultivate Learning's regional colleagues. The Lead responsibilities are: Take on a leadership role within the Quality Recognition team - serving as a resource for all staff on the assessments and standards practices that make up the Early Achievers program. Assist in all areas of Early Achievers quality recognition, including Community Liaison work. Conduct Records Review inter-rater reliability checks with Quality Recognition Specialists. Perform quality checks of peers' work and provide feedback for improvement. Conduct trainings on all Early Achievers tools Independently sign off on data for finalizing reports Communicate changes to Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) and key staff as necessary. Follow Cultivate Learning values in your daily work. Other duties as dictated by the evolving needs of the project. This position has the challenge of collecting data as efficiently and objectively as possible within the constraints and comfort level of individual providers and acting as a liaison between the individual providers and the Records Review team. They need to use independent decision making to code for the Early Achievers Quality Standards and the assessments that inform those standards. This position will be independently responsible for the coordination and planning efforts of each quarterly phase of the research project(s), will be expected to participate in the development of research designs and revisions to data collection processes and overall reliability, and are responsible for composing and editing technical reports, publications, and presentations.