Advanced Specialist, Implementation Specialist (Data Governance & Item Bank Manager)

About This Role

This role is responsible for overseeing data governance and item banking for Pearson's assessment content, ensuring integrity, consistency, and strategic usability. This person will combine assessment content knowledge with data governance and item banking skills to manage high-quality assets.

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
• Establish governance for AI-involved content assets, including provenance, lineage, and transparency of AI use
• 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
• Collaborate closely with Content, Psychometrics, Accessibility, Publishing, Product, and Technology teams
• Support training and adoption of metadata standards and governance practices

Requirements

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Nice to Have

• 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