High School Testing Coordinator, 10-Month at Westlake High School

High School (HS) Testing Coordinator
Terms of Employment: 10-month
Exemption Status: Exempt
Salary Scale: EACC, U1
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EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE
•    Holds or is eligible for a professional teaching certificate as per the requirements established by the Maryland State Department of Education required.
•    Minimum of five years of successful teaching experience required.
•    Prior experience providing staff training, administering, and interpreting educational assessments required.

QUALIFICATIONS
•    Demonstrated application of appropriate instructional methodologies that incorporate data-driven decision- making.
•    Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access).
•    Demonstrated leadership, organizational and planning skills.
•    Demonstrated ability to work professionally and discretely with extremely confidential information.
•    Excellent analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting abilities.
•    Self-motivated with the ability to work both independently and in a team environment.
•    Excellent customer service, communication (both written and verbal), and cross-group collaboration skills required.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
•    Maintains test security and compliance with the State Board of Education’s security by-laws.
•    Trains faculty and staff of all rules and regulations for county, state and national assessments
•    Ensures all school personnel adhere to the test security guidelines.
•    Works with the school’s administrative team to establish the testing schedule.
•    Organizes secure and non-secure test materials for testing groups.
•    Assigns test groups, test administrators and test proctors
•    Works with special education case managers and teachers to make sure that accommodations for assessments are being followed for students, and monitors test administration.
•    Organizes and returns answer sheets and test booklets to the Office of Research and Assessment.
•    Reports any testing irregularities to the Office of Research and Assessment.
•    Ensures home-schooled students are administered assessments.
•    Retrieves test scores from Achievement Series, the reports folder and the Data Warehouse.
•    Distributes score reports to teachers and administrators.
•    Facilitates training for Data Warehouse.
•    Interprets analysis of data from county and state assessments as requested by teachers
•    Works with the Office of Teaching and Learning to facilitate scoring of constructed response items/essays for county assessments.
•    Assists Computer Analyst in preparing computer lab for county and state on-line assessments.
•    Assists teachers in preparing students for assessments.
•    Works with outside agencies to facilitate state and national surveys (NAEP, MYTS, MAS, etc.).
•    Attends monthly School Test Coordinator meetings and additional training courses as necessary with the Local Accountability Coordinator.
•    Acts as a liaison for the Office of Accountability.
•    Performs other work-related duties as assigned.

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS & PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
The environmental factors and/or physical requirements of this position include the following: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations; and the ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-50 pounds. Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard. The employee frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear.

Charles County Public Schools reserves the right to re-advertise and modify the content of vacancy announcements at any time; however, this may be the only notice for this position during the noted advertisement period.

The Charles County public school system does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability in its programs, activities or employment practices. For inquiries, please contact Dr. Michael Blanchard, Title IX/ADA/Section 504 Coordinator (students) or Nikial M. Majors, Title IX/ADA/Section 504 coordinator (employees/ adults), at Charles County Public Schools, Jesse L. Starkey Administration Building, P.O. Box 2770, La Plata, MD 20646; 301-932-6610/301-870-3814. For special accommodations call 301-934-7230 or TDD 1-800-735-2258 two weeks prior to the event.