Specialist, Content Developer (Physical Sciences, 12 Month Limited Term)

Pearson•Austin, TX

8d•$70,000 - $80,000

About The Position

As a Specialist – Science (Physical Sciences) on the Content Development team, you will serve as a content and assessment expert developing K–12 assessments for state and district clients. The team creates standards-based assessments for students across the United States in collaboration with education departments, educator committees, and business partners, with the goal of making assessments accessible to all students. This is a 12-month limited-term position involving content development, assessment design, customer collaboration, and use of AI tools in content workflows. Some travel is required.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in physics, chemistry, or equivalent experience.
Professional knowledge of the content-specific area and educational trends.
Demonstrated excellence in AI-supported content development, or clear evidence of strong potential and readiness to use AI effectively in content creation.
Experience or familiarity with prompting, refining, and evaluating AI-generated content for educational purposes.
Skill in basic software tools and technology, and confidence working with unfamiliar programs.
Outstanding oral and written communication skills.
Ability to creatively and flexibly address challenges with a variety of audiences.
Excellent planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to manage multiple activities and adapt to unexpected events.

Nice To Haves

Five years’ experience as an elementary or secondary teacher in the content-specific field.
Some experience in large-scale educational measurement.
General knowledge of all phases of large-scale assessment development, processing, scoring, and reporting.
Demonstrated interest in learning about and adapting to new AI technologies as they evolve.

Responsibilities

Develop and review content-specific test items across multiple grade levels for large-scale assessments, including multiple-choice, technology-enhanced, extended-response, cluster-set, performance-based, and simulation items.
Help develop item, passage, and test specifications; item-development plans; test blueprints; and other ancillary documents.
Use AI-powered tools to develop, review, and enhance assessment content while ensuring quality and accessibility standards.
Collaborate with team members to integrate AI-generated assets into assessment workflows and provide feedback based on content and educational expertise.
Help select, assign, manage, and train item and passage writers and educators to develop items aligned with standards, cognitive complexity, and item-development best practices.
Facilitate and support customer meetings and provide content-assessment expertise.
Facilitate test-construction activities and review composed test forms.
Consult with customers as required, including participating in planning, status, and review meetings.
Work closely with test-development managers, other content developers, psychometricians, and other Pearson groups.
Stay current with emerging technologies relevant to educational content creation and assessment, including AI.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Travel as required.