Content Specialist, ELA
ACT, Inc

Job Info

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Overview

We are seeking a Content Specialist with at least 3 years of experience to help us fulfill our mission of helping people achieve education and workplace success. This position allows for a combination of working remote and in the office. The ACT Headquarters office is located in Iowa City, Iowa.

The Content Specialist, ELA will conceptualize, design, and develop materials for assigned programs and services associated with assessing test takers at the K-12, postsecondary, and career levels. Content specialists apply content knowledge, flexibility, and creativity to further the work of the content team. Content specialists understand and abide by best practices in test development, consistently create and deliver high quality content, contribute to process improvement activities, and contribute to new tasks and activities as needed.

What you will be working on:

• Content development, including its creation, evaluation, and revision, at the item, unit, and form level.
• Process improvements within CORE programs
• Special projects
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Document and track individual workflow
• Level description: Intermediate. O ccasionally directed in several aspects of the work while also responsible for self-management. Contributes and collaborates to core content tasks. Gains exposure to some of the complex tasks within the job function.

This could be the job for you if you have (minimum requirements):

• Ability to seek opportunities to learn and grow within the role
• Ability to be self-motivated and accountable for own work
• Ability to communicate clearly, transparently, collegially
• Ability to welcome, seek, and appreciate critical feedback
• Experience being successful in a fast paced, changing, and sometimes ambiguous environment
• Strong problem-solving, creative solutioning, and decision-making abilities
• Ability to prioritize and drive work and manage ambiguity through problem identification and resolution
• Bachelor's degree in English or related area or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired
• Minimum of 3 years of related workplace experience in content/test development and/or teaching in content area, related field, or other relevant work experience.

It's a plus if you have:

• Graduate degree or coursework in content area or related field
• 3+ years combined non-teaching AND teaching experience in content area or related field

Your Work Makes a Difference

ACT team members are part of an organization dedicated to an important mission: Helping people achieve education and workplace success.

Everything we do contributes to this mission, including team member events, professional development resources, community outreach opportunities and solid benefit offerings. Helping team members achieve education and workplace success of their own advances the ACT mission on a daily basis.

You will be joining an established team that values humor, a strong work ethic, an open mind, and a willingness to share and receive insights and knowledge.

About ACT

When ACT was founded in 1959, it disrupted the assessment industry with a new approach to helping students better understand their readiness so they could take steps to improve it. By leveraging our expertise and authority in assessment and research, we will again disrupt the industry-helping more people learn, better measure their progress, and improve their navigation through life's transitions.

More than ever before, ACT is fulfilling its mission of helping people achieve education and workplace success. We're doing it by pushing the boundaries of learning innovation through the work of our people, who we call team members because we're all in this together.

We know transformation does not come without challenge. That's why ACT invests in a variety of experiences for team members to strengthen their connections, explore ideas, learn from customers, and celebrate success.

Learn more about working at ACT at act.org!

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