McGraw Hill · 2 days ago
Director of Metadata
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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.
Qualification
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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.
Preferred
Strong fluency with the state educational standards in Science and/or Social Studies.
Experience working with taxonomies and/or ontologies, particularly those focused on competencies and/or assessment.
Experience designing and implementing educational recommendation systems.
Benefits
Medical Benefits
Annual Bonus Plan
Company
McGraw Hill
We are a leading global education company that partners with millions of educators, learners and professionals around the world.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2021-09-30Private Equity· Undisclosed
2021-06-15Acquired· by Platinum Equity ($4.5B)
2012-03-13Private Equity· Undisclosed
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