Advanced Specialist, Implementation Specialist

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The Advanced Specialist, Implementation Specialist (Data Governance & Item Bank Manager) is responsible for defining, stewarding, and enforcing the data and metadata standards that ensure the integrity, consistency, and strategic usability of assessment content across Pearson's Assessment Asset Library (the item bank and supporting content repository used across School Assessment programs).
This role blends deep assessment content knowledge with data governance discipline and item banking fluency to enable high-quality, reusable, and trustworthy assets across programs and assessment contexts. The manager establishes shared metadata models, alignment frameworks, and governance practices that support efficient content workflows, reuse across programs, and responsible AI-enabled content development  role serves as a system steward for item and content data architecture-ensuring assets are well-structured, discoverable, traceable, and interoperable across formative, progress monitoring, interim, and summative assessment uses.

Core Responsibilities:

Item Bank Governance & Architecture
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
Reuse, Alignment, and Strategic Asset Management
Enable efficient reuse of assessment assets by ensuring accurate standards alignment, tagging, and discoverability
Support reuse across assessment programs, ensuring assets are appropriately aligned to specific standards and program requirements
Prevent duplication and fragmentation by promoting shared assets and consistent metadata practices
Provide guidance on how assets developed for one assessment context can responsibly support others
AI-Enabled Governance & Asset Lineage
Establish governance for AI-involved content assets, including provenance, lineage, and transparency of AI use
Define and maintain tracking of relationships between base assets and related downstream assets
Ensure governance practices support quality, coherence, and responsible AI use at scale
Partner with AI Content Systems and AI Science teams to ensure asset structures support AI authoring, scoring, and feedback workflows
Data Quality, Validation, and Lifecycle Management
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
Establish processes for versioning, deprecation, and retirement of assets
Partner with Data Analysts and technical teams to design and implement data quality checks, audits, and monitoring systems; define requirements and standards without requiring hands-on analytics development
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Enablement
Collaborate closely with Content, Psychometrics, Accessibility, Publishing, Product, and Technology teams
Translate governance requirements into practical workflows, job aids, and guidance for content teams
Support training and adoption of metadata standards and governance practices
Drive alignment and shared understanding across matrixed teams

Required 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
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

Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree in education,…