Pearson · 10 hours ago
Advanced Specialist, Implementation Specialist
Richmond, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$110K/yr - $120K/yr
5+ years expPearson is the world's lifelong learning company dedicated to helping people realize their potential through learning. The Advanced Specialist, Implementation Specialist (Data Governance & Item Bank Manager) will oversee data governance and metadata standards for assessment content, ensuring high-quality, reusable assets across various educational programs.
EducationDigital MediaBooksEdTechHigher Education
Responsibilities
Define and steward shared metadata models, taxonomies, and alignment frameworks for assessment content
Establish governance standards for asset structure, tagging, documentation, and lifecycle management
Ensure the assessment asset library remains clean, coherent, and strategically usable across programs and assessment contexts
Collaborate with other item bank and repository leaders to support interoperability across School Assessment systems
Enable efficient reuse of assessment assets by ensuring accurate standards alignment, tagging, and discoverability
Support reuse across assessment programs, ensuring assets are appropriately aligned to specific standards and program requirements
Prevent duplication and fragmentation by promoting shared assets and consistent metadata practices
Provide guidance on how assets developed for one assessment context can responsibly support others
Establish governance for AI-involved content assets, including provenance, lineage, and transparency of AI use
Define and maintain tracking of relationships between base assets and related downstream assets
Ensure governance practices support quality, coherence, and responsible AI use at scale
Partner with AI Content Systems and AI Science teams to ensure asset structures support AI authoring, scoring, and feedback workflows
Define and enforce data quality standards for metadata, alignment, and asset relationships
Conduct audits and reviews to identify gaps, inconsistencies, or risks within asset repositories
Establish processes for versioning, deprecation, and retirement of assets
Partner with Data Analysts and technical teams to design and implement data quality checks, audits, and monitoring systems; define requirements and standards without requiring hands-on analytics development
Collaborate closely with Content, Psychometrics, Accessibility, Publishing, Product, and Technology teams
Translate governance requirements into practical workflows, job aids, and guidance for content teams
Support training and adoption of metadata standards and governance practices
Drive alignment and shared understanding across matrixed teams
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in education, instructional design, information science, data management, or equivalent experience
5+ years of experience in K–12 assessment, item development, content development, data governance, or item banking
Demonstrated experience working with item banking platforms or structured content repositories
Experience developing or managing metadata standards, schemas, or tagging systems
Experience collaborating across Content, Psychometrics, Accessibility, Publishing, Product, and Technology teams
Preferred
Master's degree in education, information architecture, data science, or related field
Experience with reuse strategies across assessment programs or interoperability frameworks
Working knowledge of psychometric concepts (item statistics, field testing, scaling)
Experience supporting accessibility, DEI, and fairness considerations in assessment content
Experience contributing to roadmap or system-level recommendations for content platforms
Benefits
This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program
Company
Pearson
Pearson operates as a media and education company that offers a wide range of services to its customers.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown1969-08-13IPO
Leadership Team
Liav Even-Chen
Chief Financial Officer (Pearson Israel)
Kim England
Vice President, Digital Employee Experience and Community Engagement
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