Location
Jackson
Posted
June 03, 2026
Commute
Local Area
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Job Description
**Lead Specialist, Psychometrician, this role aligns to industry-level titles such as Psychometrician, Measurement Specialist or Research Scientist.**
**Education and Work Experience**
+ Doctoral degree in educational measurement or a closely related field from a nationally recognized institution of higher education
+ A minimum of eight years of relevant professional experience, preferably encompassing the full range of psychometric issues encountered in operational assessment programs
**Technical Psychometric Expertise**
+ Applies, designs solutions for, and mentors others in psychometric methodologies—including classical test theory, item response theory, test equating, scaling and linking, and standard setting—across new and complex operational testing contexts.
+ Utilizes and consults on statistical software packages and programming languages commonly employed in psychometric and measurement research (e.g., SAS, R, Python, WINSTEPS, IRTPro) to address novel challe...
**Education and Work Experience**
+ Doctoral degree in educational measurement or a closely related field from a nationally recognized institution of higher education
+ A minimum of eight years of relevant professional experience, preferably encompassing the full range of psychometric issues encountered in operational assessment programs
**Technical Psychometric Expertise**
+ Applies, designs solutions for, and mentors others in psychometric methodologies—including classical test theory, item response theory, test equating, scaling and linking, and standard setting—across new and complex operational testing contexts.
+ Utilizes and consults on statistical software packages and programming languages commonly employed in psychometric and measurement research (e.g., SAS, R, Python, WINSTEPS, IRTPro) to address novel challe...