Senior Admissions Test Content Specialist (Casper) - English & French

Acuity Insights

8d • Remote

About The Position

This role is for a Senior Admissions Test Content Specialist focused on the Casper assessment, which helps higher education programs evaluate applicants' human skills beyond academic achievement. The specialist will work with researchers and other content experts to build and review assessment content, ensuring it is clear, balanced, and fair for high-stakes admissions decisions. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing content, owning recurring content workflows, coordinating review cycles, and making decisions that balance evidence, quality, and fairness. The role emphasizes collaborative work blending language, analytical thinking, and judgment. Professional fluency in both English and French is required, with English being the primary collaboration language and French used in assessment content. This is a fully remote role open to candidates in Canada.

Requirements

• Professional fluency in English and French.
• Experience working with language, demonstrated through strong written communication skills in a professional context where language mattered (e.g., teaching, curriculum development, instructional design, assessment, editing, academic publishing, content development, communications).
• Ability to recognize nuance, refine wording, and make sound editorial decisions while preserving meaning and intent across languages.
• Experience in an environment where judgment mattered, including weighing competing considerations, applying frameworks or guidelines consistently, and making careful decisions.
• Experience delivering high-quality, detail-oriented work where accuracy and consistency were critical (e.g., reviewing complex documents, developing educational materials, editing content, conducting quality assurance, coordinating detailed projects).
• Experience using AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot) as part of a daily workflow for research, organizing information, exploring ideas, improving writing, or reducing repetitive work.
• Judgment to know when AI is helping, when it needs direction, and when human thinking needs to lead.
• Enjoyment of exploring new technology, experimenting with better ways of working, and thoughtfully incorporating AI.
• Enjoyment of working through complex questions where there isn’t always a single right answer.
• Curiosity to investigate inconsistencies, look for patterns, and understand why something works before deciding how it could work better.
• Ability to step into someone else’s shoes, anticipating how different people might interpret language, experience a scenario, or respond to an assessment.
• Enjoyment of discussing ideas, giving and receiving feedback, and improving thinking through conversations with others.
• Ability to manage recurring work, balance multiple priorities, and consistently follow through on commitments.
• Adaptability to learn, evolve, and improve the way of working.
• Canadian residency and valid work authorization.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in curriculum development, editing, assessment, instructional design, content development, or research.

Responsibilities

• Build assessments that applicants complete and institutions rely on for admissions decisions.
• Use language, critical thinking, and judgment to ensure every assessment is clear, balanced, fair, and ready for use in high-stakes admissions decisions.
• Own recurring content workflows that keep assessments accurate, consistent, and ready for use.
• Coordinate review cycles and bring together perspectives from multiple contributors.
• Make decisions that balance evidence, quality, and fairness.
• Evaluate language, identify inconsistencies, and balance competing considerations when transforming individual content pieces into complete admissions assessments.
• Refine wording to remove ambiguity.
• Review how scenarios work together across an entire assessment, identify gaps, improve supporting resources, or prepare new content for future test cycles.
• Explore new tools, including AI, to scale assessment building without compromising quality, fairness, and care.
• Compile complete Casper assessments in partnership with a reviewer, balancing content, timing, and assessment objectives.
• Refine language and structure so every scenario and question is clear, consistent, and accessible.
• Apply thoughtful judgment when categorizing scenarios and connecting them to the human skills they measure.
• Steward the quality of assessment content by coordinating recurring review workflows, bringing together perspectives from colleagues and subject matter experts, and ensuring supporting materials are accurate, consistent, and ready for use.
• Develop and refine supporting content and documentation that strengthens the quality, consistency, and integrity of assessments.
• Explore opportunities to improve how work is done, including using AI to streamline repetitive tasks while preserving human judgment.
• Collaborate with researchers, writers, reviewers, and production specialists to continuously improve how Casper is built.
• Build assessments people trust that are clear, balanced, fair, and grounded in research.
• Strengthen how work is done by improving tools, processes, and ways of working.
• Advance the craft of assessment development by contributing ideas that improve how Casper assessments are compiled, reviewed, and continuously refined.
• Shape what's next by helping to thoughtfully incorporate new technologies, including AI, while preserving human judgment.
• Contribute to something much bigger: helping people be understood more completely through assessment improvements.

Benefits

• Transparent compensation: starting salary between $75,000 - $85,000 CAD.
• A $3,000 annual learning budget for professional development.
• Access to employee stock options.
• Fully remote work within Canada, with up to six weeks per year to work internationally.
• Self-directed vacation (most teammates take 4–6 weeks annually).
• Monthly Acuity Days (a collective Friday off).
• A two-week company-wide closure each December.
• Comprehensive health benefits from day one for employees and their dependents.
• A 2% GRSP matching program.
• 16-week parental leave top-up beyond EI, available to all parents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed