Instructional Content Specialist

January 31

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Ellevation Education

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Ellevation Education is a company dedicated to improving outcomes for English learners (ELs) through informed instructional decisions and tailored professional development. The company provides a platform that integrates real-time student data with essential tasks such as progress monitoring and reporting, empowering educators to make impactful instructional decisions. Ellevation Education offers products like the Ellevation Platform and Ellevation Strategies to streamline workflows and support educators. Proudly serving over 50% of EL students in 1,700+ school districts across the nation, Ellevation is committed to educational equity. The company aims to empower educators to drive meaningful change in classrooms and improve the effectiveness of English learner programs.

Education • Technology • English Language Learners • Mission Driven

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

📋 Description

• Over the last 10+ years, Ellevation Education has built a thriving business serving the administrators, specialists, and teachers who support English Learners (ELL) at public schools across the US. • Today, over 1,800 school districts use our software to manage their EL programs and drive key outcomes for students. • We are making a series of investments in the development of a short benchmark ELP assessment aimed at informing instruction for EL students in grades 2–12 across the country. • As an Instructional Content Specialist, you will work closely with other content specialists to develop Ellevation’s first benchmark ELP assessment. • Leveraging your editorial experience and knowledge of ELP Standards and Proficiency Level Descriptors, you will contribute to the assessment design and play a key role in the 6–12 blueprint and item development. • You will also collaborate with other members of our Education Solutions team and Assessment Product Teams to shape the student experience, content tooling development, and scoring operations.

🎯 Requirements

• You have 3–5 years of experience writing and editing high-quality ELP assessment content for students in the K–12 space, with a focus on grades 6–12. • You have demonstrated success in developing high-quality, educational and assessment content aligned to language standards within a specified time frame. • You have a strong background in national and regionally specific EL language standards and frequently engage in new learning to stay up-to-date. • You have strong verbal communication skills and a willingness to contribute to collaborative work, delivering and receiving feedback well. • You have natural curiosity and an eagerness to learn from others.

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits eligible employees (and qualifying dependents) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. • Employees can enroll in our company's 401(k) retirement plan and receive an employer match up to 50% on the first 7% of your contribution, with pre-tax and Roth options. • Employees have access to flexible paid time off for vacations, sick and disability policy, additional 10 paid company holidays, 2 floating holidays and a winter office closure between Christmas and New Year's. • In addition, we provide a generous parental leave benefit, back-up childcare or eldercare, and a variety of other perks to support the health and well-being of our employees.