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Coordinator – Assessment Development and Strategy (multiple positions)

• Date Posted:
  5/12/2026
• Location:
  
  District Service Center

Coordinator – Assessment Development and Strategy (multiple positions)

Reports to:

Director – Data Literacy, Assessment Strategy, and Continuous Improvement
PC: 24288
Grade 404
239 Days
Salary: $85,893 - $103,487
FLSA Status:
Exempt

Position Purpose

The Coordinator of Assessment Development and Strategy designs, develops, and continuously improves the district's local assessment system, including Demonstrations of Learning (DOLs), interim assessments, and benchmarks aligned to TEKS and the rigor of state assessments. This role ensures all assessments are tightly aligned to the district's instructional framework and are intentionally designed to drive real-time instructional decision-making.

In close partnership with Curriculum & Instruction, including core content departments (Reading, Math, Science, and Social Studies), the Coordinator ensures assessments are not standalone tools, but are embedded within instructional planning and daily lesson execution. Assessments are designed to generate immediate, actionable data that directly informs reteach, acceleration, and student grouping decisions. The role is responsible for ensuring coherence, rigor, and usability of assessments across the system to accelerate student achievement.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Designs, develops, and continuously improves district wide local assessments, including Demonstrations of Learning (DOLs), interim assessments, and benchmarks aligned to TEKS, the district's Instructional Framework, and the rigor of STAAR.
• Works in close partnership with Curriculum & Instruction, including core content departments (Reading, Math, Science, and Social Studies), to ensure assessments are tightly aligned to HQIM, Instructional Planning Calendars (IPCs), and daily lesson execution.
• Ensures all assessments reflect grade-level rigor aligned to TEKS, the district's Instructional Framework, and STAAR expectations, maintaining high cognitive demand while embedding appropriate access points that do not lower standards.
• Develops and maintains assessment blueprints, item specifications, and aligned item banks that ensure consistency, coherence, and rigor across all content areas and grade levels.
• Designs and refines high-quality assessment items aligned to state assessment formats and expectations, including a range of item types that measure depth of understanding.
• Establishes and implements quality control processes, including alignment checks, item review protocols, and validation procedures to ensure accuracy, rigor, and reliability of all assessments.
• Develops and aligns assessments to the district's Enhanced Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) implementation plan, ensuring coherence with district and state expectations and alignment to multiple measures of educator effectiveness.
• Determines and maintains a clear through line between local assessments and state assessments, ensuring alignment in standards, rigor, item types, and performance expectations.
• Ensures local assessments are predictive of student performance on STAAR and other state measures and are designed to generate actionable insights that inform instruction.
• Designs assessments to produce immediate, actionable data that can be used in real time to inform reteach, acceleration, and student grouping decisions in alignment with the district's Instructional Framework.
• Partners within AARA, including the Assessment function, to ensure alignment to the district wide assessment calendar and full compliance with state and local assessment requirements.
• Collaborates with Data Analytics…