Senior Assessment Expert - Hyderabad, India - ConveGenius
Description
Senior Assessment Expert- CGI
About CGI
CGI (earlier known as Gray Matters India, GMI) is a leading educational assessment and impact evaluation company that enables child-centric education by providing child-specific diagnoses of learning levels and actionable feedback to regularly monitor a child's development. We provide large-scale educational assessments and program evaluation solutions to bilateral and multilateral aid agencies, corporate philanthropic foundations, federal and state governments, implementers, and private schools. Some of our clients and partners include the British Asian Trust, Deshpande Foundation, the Government of Haryana, Kaizenvest, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Palladium International, UBS Optimus Foundation, and USAID, to name a few.
CGI works with students from lower-income communities in Government schools and Affordable Private Schools (APS). CGI has worked with 10,000+ schools, and 15,00,000+ students across India and aspires to impact more than 50,000 schools, 30 million students and 100,000 teachers in the next 5 years. CGI currently develops assessment tools using modern measurement techniques (like Item Response Theory and Rasch Modelling) and contextualises the assessment methodology for Indian schools. For more information, please visit
CGI is part of the ConveGenius (CG) group, an EdTech social enterprise driven to solve the challenge of educational equity and learning outcomes for children and youth in India. Currently, it reaches over 35 million students in India to provide them access to quality education through its EdTech solutions.
Role Summary
ConveGenius Insights (CGI) is seeking an ambitious professional with a result-oriented approach to join as a Senior Assessment Expert. We are looking for a candidate who is exceptional in handling projects and can manage work with minimal supervision. We are open to suitable candidates who can work from CGI's Hyderabad office, in India.
The Assessment team is involved in creating discerning questions and insightful assessment tools that test the level of understanding of the content and competence in the subject skills of children. For this role, we are looking for a passionate individual who would love to go deeper into how children learn subjects and lead the team in building high-quality learning modules and assessment tools that can uncover gaps in students' learning.
Tasks & Responsibilities
The role mainly involves handling a team that works on the creation and review of engaging content for learning and assessment products, which includes the following:
Leading projects within the assessment products & services team
Providing guidance, resources, and assistance to a team of assessment creators
Understanding research on pedagogy and teaching and helping the team translate that to the creation of sound assessment tools
Setting up optimal processes for the creation and maintenance of existing and new assessments, including translations
Ability to review and revise existing content based on quality, technical correctness and student performance data, if needed, or guide the team for the same
Regularly check the quality of the question bank and set up maintenance processes to keep it updated
Reading and sharing summaries of research papers, and articles related to education in national and international publications
Analysing large-scale student response data to figure out how children think and learn
Interacting with teachers and students for insights about students' learning
Education & Experience
Background in designing large-scale assessments in Maths, Science, or Language.
Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Science or Language, Assessments, Teaching, Psychometry, Engineering or similar fields.
Preferred: Masters degree in Assessments, Teaching, Psychometry or similar fields.
Experience: 4-6 years of total experience, with at least 1-2 years in a team lead role
Preferred: People who are comfortable with 2 or more Indian languages
Competencies
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Excellent proofreading skills
Ability to critically analyse assessment and learning content
Should enjoy leading a team and working across teams (design, data analytics, operations, etc.)
Should like to engage in healthy debates and arguments that are critical for strong content and product development
Ability to critically analyse content to deliver a high-quality learning experience for the child
Sticking to tight schedules and effective workload management