Testing Coordinator

The Testing Coordinator is responsible for assisting Kankakee High School with the effective planning, coordination, administration, monitoring, documentation, and completion of required student assessments during the 2026–2027 school year. The Testing Coordinator serves as a key point of contact for assessment logistics and supports the school in maintaining compliance.

The coordinator will assist with the administration of assessments including, but not limited to, PSAT/NMSQT, SAT, Pre-ACT, ACT, ACCESS for ELLs, and other state, district, college-readiness, instructional, or mandated assessments designated during the school year. The position requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, confidentiality, effective communication, and the ability to coordinate multiple assessment activities while ensuring that testing procedures are implemented consistently and securely.

• Assist school administration in developing and maintaining an annual assessment calendar for Kankakee High School.
• Coordinate logistics for
  PSAT/NMSQT, SAT, Pre-ACT, ACT, ACCESS for ELLs
  , and other required assessments.
• Assist with identifying testing dates, locations, student testing groups, testing rooms, staffing needs, and schedules.
• Coordinate with administrators, counselors, teachers, paraprofessionals, special education staff, EL/bilingual staff, and other personnel regarding assessment requirements.
• Monitor assessment timelines and communicate upcoming deadlines to appropriate staff.
• Assist with scheduling make-up testing and alternate testing opportunities when permitted.
• Support the coordination of testing for students who are absent, newly enrolled, medically unable to test, or otherwise require an approved alternate testing arrangement.

The Testing Coordinator will assist with any additional assessments designated by the district, school administration, ISBE, or an authorized testing provider.

Potential assessments may include:

• College-readiness assessments;
• English language proficiency assessments;
• End-of-course or content-area assessments;
• Career and college readiness assessments;
• Advanced Placement or other College Board assessments, as assigned;
• Other assessments identified by the district during the 2026–2027 school year.

The coordinator's responsibilities will be based on the specific requirements and procedures established for each assessment.

• Assist with preparing testing rooms and testing environments.
• Ensure appropriate signage, seating arrangements, technology, materials, and other testing requirements are in place.
• Assist with assigning and communicating responsibilities to test administrators, proctors, monitors, and support personnel.
• Provide testing-day reminders and procedures to assigned staff.
• Assist with monitoring attendance and testing participation.
• Assist administrators in addressing testing-day logistical concerns.
• Maintain a calm, organized, and student-centered testing environment.
• Support appropriate procedures for students who arrive late, leave testing, become ill, or experience other testing-day circumstances.
• Assist with make-up testing and resolution of incomplete testing sessions.

• Follow all applicable testing-security requirements established by ISBE, College Board or ACT assessment vendors, and Kankakee School District 111.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of student testing information, testing materials, student accommodations, assessment results, and other protected information.
• Assist with securing testing materials before, during, and after testing.
• Ensure testing materials are accounted for and returned according to…