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Part-Time Evaluator, Composition

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. Job Profile Summary: Accurately and consistently score students' submissions. Provide robust feedback to students on each scoring event.

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... For full info follow application link.

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