The Advanced Specialist, Implementation Specialist (Data Governance & Item Bank Manager) is responsible for defining, stewarding, and enforcing the data and metadata standards that ensure the integrity, consistency, and strategic usability of assessment content across Pearson’s Assessment Asset Library (the item bank and supporting content repository used across School Assessment programs). This role blends deep assessment content knowledge with data governance discipline and item banking fluency to enable high-quality, reusable, and trustworthy assets across programs and assessment contexts. The manager establishes shared metadata models, alignment frameworks, and governance practices that support efficient content workflows, reuse across programs, and responsible AI-enabled content development at scale. The role serves as a system steward for item and content data architecture—ensuring assets are well-structured, discoverable, traceable, and interoperable across formative, progress monitoring, interim, and summative assessment uses. **Core Responsibilities:** **Item Bank Governance & Architecture** * Define and steward shared metadata models, taxonomies, and alignment frameworks for assessment content * Establish governance standards for asset structure, tagging, documentation, and lifecycle management * Ensure the assessment asset library remains clean, coherent, and strategically usable across programs and assessment contexts * Collaborate with other item bank and repository leaders to support interoperability across School Assessment systems **Reuse, Alignment, and Strategic Asset Management** * Enable efficient reuse of assessment assets by ensuring accurate standards alignment, tagging, and discoverability * Support reuse across assessment programs, ensuring assets are appropriately aligned to specific standards and program requirements * Prevent duplication and fragmentation by promoting shared assets and consistent metadata practices * Provide guidance on how assets developed for one assessment context can responsibly support others **AI-Enabled Governance & Asset Lineage** * Establish governance for AI-involved content assets, including provenance, lineage, and transparency of AI use * Define and maintain tracking of relationships between base assets and related downstream assets * Ensure governance practices support quality, coherence, and responsible AI use at scale * Partner with AI Content Systems and AI Science teams to ensure asset structures support AI authoring, scoring, and feedback workflows **Data Quality, Validation, and Lifecycle Management** * Define and enforce data quality standards for metadata, alignment, and asset relationships * Conduct audits and reviews to identify gaps, inconsistencies, or risks within asset repositories * Establish processes for versioning, deprecation, and retirement of assets * Partner with Data Analysts and technical teams to design and implement data quality checks, audits, and monitoring systems; define requirements and standards without requiring hands-on analytics development **Cross-Functional Collaboration & Enablement** * Collaborate closely with Content, Psychometrics, Accessibility, Publishing, Product, and Technology teams * Translate governance requirements into practical workflows, job aids, and guidance for content teams * Support training and adoption of metadata standards and governance practices * Drive alignment and shared understanding across matrixed teams **Required Qualifications** * Bachelor’s degree in education, instructional design, information science, data management, or equivalent experience * 5+ years of experience in K–12 assessment, item development, content development, data governance, or item banking * Demonstrated experience working with item banking platforms or structured content repositories * Experience developing or managing metadata standards, schemas, or tagging systems * Experience collaborating across Content, Psychometrics, Accessibility, Publishing, Product, and Technology teams **Preferred Qualifications** * Master’s degree in education, information architecture, data science, or related field * Experience with reuse strategies across assessment programs or interoperability frameworks * Working knowledge of psychometric concepts (item statistics, field testing, scaling) * Experience supporting accessibility, DEI, and fairness considerations in assessment content * Experience contributing to roadmap or system-level recommendations for content platforms **Compensation at Pearson** is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York State, New York City, Vermont, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is as follows: The minimum full-time salary range is between $110,000 - $120,000. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here. **_Applications will be accepted through Friday, Feb 20, 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs._** **Who we are:** At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson. Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com. **Job:** Content Creation **Job Family:** LEARNING\_&\_CONTENT\_DEVELOPMENT **Organization:** Assessment & Qualifications **Schedule:** FULL\_TIME **Workplace Type:** **Req ID:** 22657 \#location