Renaissance Learning EMEA APAC
education
ContentDevelopmentEditor
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“Content Development Editor at Renaissance Learning EMEA APAC. Skills: Content development, Item development, Quality assurance. Take an active role in the development and trialling of new items. Contribute to the construction of live admissions tests by carrying out a range of quality assurance checks”
Industry & Context.
Solution focused approach
Subject to DBS and background checks
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Educated to degree level or previous experience working within academia, Ability to work with autonomy with a solution focused approach, whilst also collaborating with the wider team, Great attention to detail!, Excellent communication both written and verbal, Highly organised with great time management, Confident communication and influencing skills, Full work permit
Nice to Have
Stakeholder management skills, liaising with internal and external parties
What You'll Do.
Take an active role in the development and trialling of new items
Contribute to the construction of live admissions tests by carrying out a range of quality assurance checks
Analysing where there are gaps in the item bank based on customer requirements
Managing freelancer contractors
Creating item-writing briefs and guidelines for item writers
Reviewing of new items against item writing briefs and guidelines
Collaborating with item writers to develop brand-new item types
Uploading of new items to database and the monitoring of item bank for quality and relevance of older items
Planning of top-priority new content to trial and construction of trialling booklets
Supporting the recruitment of schools for new-question trials
Liaising with schools over the logistics of the trials and sending and explaining results to schools
Evaluation of item data from the trials using classical item analysis data
QA checks on live tests
including construction checks
end-user checks and answer-sheet checks
Contributions to ISO9001 and other quality-control documents including non-conformance reports and QA checklists
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborating with the wider team; Liaising with internal and external parties
Communication Scope
Excellent communication both written and verbal; Confident communication and influencing skills
Full Job Description
About Us Renaissance® is a global leader in education technology. We help schools and school groups in the UK and around the world with educational assessments, practice and intervention solutions, and data analytics. Renaissance now incorporates GL Assessment (known internationally as GL Education), too – a leading provider of educational assessments. Together, our assessments offer the ideal starting point to help teachers understand their students’ strengths and pinpoint areas of need. Our teaching and learning tools then provide effective next steps, with online literacy and maths solutions that meet students exactly where we are. Worldwide, we support over 18 million students, operating in over 100 countries. Renaissance Learning provides market-leading admissions tests. The Admissions Testing (AT) department develops selection tests (11+) for over 200 grammar, independent and fair-banding schools in England and Northern Ireland, from developing questions (items) through to test construction and publication. Around 35 new tests are developed annually by the department. These admissions tests require the continuous development of high-quality items to keep them fit for purpose and innovative. The role of the Content Development Editor is to take an active role in the development and trialling of new items. In addition to developing new content, you'll contribute to the construction of live admissions tests by carrying out a range of quality assurance checks, including construction checks and end-user checks. Content Development Editor Job Responsibilities: Analysing where there are gaps in the item bank based on customer requirements Managing freelancer contractors (e. g. item writers, illustrators, software developer, curriculum consultants) Creating item-writing briefs and guidelines for item writers (including curriculum guidance for English and maths) Reviewing of new items against item writing briefs and guidelines Collaborating with item writers to develop
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