McGraw Hill · 2 days ago

Director of Metadata

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director

$150K/yr - $175K/yr

10+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Collaborate and communicate with subject area experts and product managers to develop and manage skill/competency ontologies in diverse subject areas, as well as controlled vocabularies and other metadata attributes.

Collaborate with learning and data scientists to ensure measurement quality for learning-related metadata.

Provide guidance to and coordinate with technical staff to develop and expand capabilities and tools supporting metadata management and usage.

Help develop and maintain documentation on metadata and its uses for product and design teams.

Monitor external developments in metadata standards and coordinate with technical partners to ensure that McGraw Hill is prepared for such developments.

Use data tools from spreadsheets to database queries to programming languages to identify complex metadata requirements, explore internal and external metadata use cases, and suggest potential enhancements.

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Educational assessmentEducational standardsConstruct definitionAssessment item-construct alignmentFluency with state educational standardsLiteracyMedicineRelational database queriesData sourcesRPythonCommunicationProblem-solvingEducational Standards KnowledgeTaxonomiesOntologiesRecommendation Systems Design

Required

Advanced degree in educational measurement, learning sciences, or a related field.

10+ years of experience in educational assessment and measurement with at least 5 years of direct experience working with educational standards and/or professional learning competencies in construct definition and differentiation and in assessment item-construct alignment.

Strong fluency with state educational standards in Math and Literacy or with education competencies in Medicine.

Strong communication skills, especially in translating technical assessment details to non-specialist audiences.

Familiarity with relational database queries and/or working with data sources via R or Python.