Part-Time Evaluator, Composition id-22632

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is: 

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Job Description

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

    The evaluator is a member of WGU’s faculty. The evaluator is a subject-matter expert and professional individual contributor with expert-level knowledge within the associated specialization/discipline.

    Evaluators apply their subject matter expertise and experience utilizing a rubric created by program and assessment development faculty and applied consistent with WGU, Evaluation Department, and team policies and procedures. The evaluator crafts personalized, robust feedback to support accurate scoring of student responses and in furtherance of student progress.

    Work plans and schedules for evaluators are broadly defined and require the evaluator to develop specific work plans and schedules to provide accurate and fair evaluations, with helpful (robust and personalized) feedback. Evaluators cooperate within and between teams to meet the department’s commitment to students for a quick evaluation as defined by university leadership.

    High-performing, experienced evaluators coach/mentor team members and assist colleagues.

    The evaluator’s work is situational and complex, requiring analysis and evaluation of student responses to assessment task prompts to achieve a secure, valid, and reliable determination of competencies for degree programs.

    The evaluator applies university, department, and team policies and procedures in scoring work and crafting helpful, robust, and personalized feedback to support students in developing competency and progressing with their degree program.

    On occasion, an experienced evaluator may be called upon to create and implement methods to improve student success and evaluation processes.

    The evaluator’s work is critical to each student’s experience and success at WGU.

    The evaluator works individually and collectively, as part of a content-specific team, to meet individual, team, and department objectives to be accurate, fair, helpful, and quick in an environment that is a great place to work.

    The evaluator works effectively and reports work time accurately to be good stewards of students’ tuition dollars.

    With general direction from a manager, supervisors, and lead evaluators, evaluators are self-managed, taking initiative and acting independently in completing performance assessment evaluations consistent with standard practices and policies and our commitment to students (i.e., accurate, fair, helpful, and quick practices and policies).

    When faced with an unexpected student response, evaluators are encouraged and expected to collaborate with other evaluators, lead evaluators, and supervisors/managers as needed to make a fair determination of competency.

    To be successful, evaluators must be well-connected and coordinated within their team and any applicable cross-functional groups.

    An experienced evaluator may be asked to propose or collaborate on new methods and procedures on new or special assignments.

    Evaluators performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skill, and Abilities:

    Subject matter expertise and appropriate advanced degrees and credentials relevant to evaluation content area

    Work experience relevant to evaluation content area

    Strong understanding, acceptance, and adherence to the tenets of competency-based education and the disaggregated faculty model

    Advanced strength in written communication

    Openness to feedback to improve scoring, feedback, and procedural adherence

    Demonstrated ability to discern evidence of competency within student submissions, including unexpected forms of response

    Demonstrated ability to use technology, adapt quickly to new processes, and manage complex cognitive loads

    Demonstrated ability to collaborate with colleagues to ensure validity and reliability of evaluation across multiple raters, including deferring to the guidance of the team, lead evaluators, supervisors, and manager

    Demonstrated ability to properly identify and refer student submissions for escalated care including but not limited to professional communication, academic authenticity, excellence awards, support in opening student submissions, content assistance, and technology support

 

Competencies:

Organizational or Student Impact:

    Is accountable for decisions that impact individual students

    Creates or facilitates learning experiences that support students’ attainment of knowledge and skills

    With specific guidance from team leadership, acts independently in executing evaluation practices

Problem Solving & Decision Making:

   Works on diverse matters of limited complexity

    Receives general direction from their immediate supervisor or manager

    Supports students to help them achieve course or program outcomes at the individual student level

    Follows university and department-established policies and best practices

Communication & Influence:

    Communicates with fellow faculty members as appropriate within and outside of the department.

Leadership & Talent Management:

    Contributes as a collegial team member

    Adheres to learning and operational quality guidance and instructions

    Supports team, department, and university initiatives within the area of specialty

    Displays a positive attitude toward change and supports change management practices

 

Job Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

    Master’s degree or higher in English or a related field (composition, journalism, literature, creative writing, library science, education with an English emphasis, etc.)

    3+ years of relevant professional experience (proofreading and editing, teaching English, journalism, etc.)

    Demonstrated subject matter expert in job-relevant content or practice area

    Ability to communicate effectively and accurately in writing

    Ability to work 20 hours a week over five to six days of the week, with a minimum of 2 weekend (Saturday and/or Sunday) hours required each week and occasional holiday work

    Access to a distraction-free work environment, a personal laptop or desktop, and reliable, secure internet that is not satellite-based

 

Preferred Qualifications:

    Strong experience with distance education and distance learning students

    Strong background with technology

    Background in teaching college-level introductory English courses

    Interdisciplinary degrees and background with other Gen Ed fields (i.e., communication, humanities, science, and social sciences)

 

Physical Requirements:

    Prolonged periods sitting or standing at a desk and working on a computer

    Ability to review complex written work and craft grammatically accurate written evaluation feedback within existing Evaluation platforms

    Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times

 

Disclaimer: This Job Description has been designed to indicate the general nature, essential duties, and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this classification. It does not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications that are required of the employee to do this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

This Job Description does not constitute a contract of employment and the University may exercise its employment-at-will rights at any time.

 

Position & Application Details

Part-time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working less than 30 standard weekly hours): This is a part-time, regular position (classified for less than 30 SWH) that is eligible for vision and mental healthcare; flexible spending account; voluntary life insurance; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and prorated paid holidays and accrued sick time.

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