Advanced Specialist, Content Developer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New Jersey.

📋 Description

• Oversee the complete delivery of certification exam development projects, which encompasses planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.

• Create and manage comprehensive project plans, schedules, risks, and dependencies across multiple simultaneous exam initiatives.

• Ensure that projects stay within the approved scope, timelines, and quality standards.

• Coordinate exam development tasks, including job task analysis support, blueprinting, item creation, review cycles, pilot testing, and exam updates.

• Collaborate with subject matter experts (SMEs) and assessment professionals to guarantee that exam content aligns with established competencies, standards, and objectives.

• Ensure that exam deliverables meet the set criteria for accuracy, relevance, and consistency.

• Act as the main point of contact for project stakeholders, providing regular updates on status and managing expectations.

• Facilitate working sessions and review meetings with SMEs, vendors, and internal teams.

• Proactively identify and address project risks, issues, and resource limitations.

• Manage external vendors and partners involved in exam development activities, which include content creation, psychometric services, and exam delivery.

• Monitor vendor performance to ensure compliance with contractual obligations and timelines.

• Support adherence to established exam development best practices and internal governance standards.

• Maintain thorough project documentation and ensure that records are audit-ready for exam development initiatives.

• Appropriately escalate risks or deviations and recommend corrective actions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in education, business, project management, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• Extensive experience in managing complex projects, ideally in certification, assessment, or exam development settings.

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority.

• Excellent organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• 5+ years of experience working with professional certification programs, credentialing bodies, or testing organizations.

• Knowledge of exam development lifecycles and assessment terminology.

🏝️ Benefits

• This role is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.

• Information on benefits offered is available here.