This position is exempt and offers a remote work model.

As the Psychometrician, you will be responsible for routine psychometric work, such as production of scores, rescores, and item analyses, creation of test maps, and other psychometric duties as assigned. The Psychometrician position requires adherence to industry standards for all aspects of testing.

Job Responsibilities

Program Leadership

• Contributes to the development, implementation, monitoring, and sustainability of strategic plans, goals, and objectives for NABP exam programs.
• Interacts professionally and cooperatively with NABP staff, members, customers, and vendors to answer questions about NABP programs and services.
• Collaborates to solve problems that do not require the attention of program-specific staff.

Program Operations

• Performs daily examination scoring and score releases.
• Performs weekly examination delivery checks.
• Processes examination rescore requests on a weekly basis.
• Creates and interprets test maps.
• Performs mask request impact analyses and communicates the results to the content team.
• Assists in the preparation of annual and calendar year exam reports.
• Assists with other psychometric duties, including updating and improving psychometric processes.

Procedure & Standards

• Applies established quality control procedures to all operational work.
• Participates in establishing, monitoring, and maintaining program calendars and schedules.
• Stays current on all Competency Assessment exam programs.
• Stays current with test and measurement standards, practices, issues, and trends through routine review of literature and attendance at conferences. Communicates best practices to staff.

Testing Integrity

• Reports problems or potential problems to appropriate staff members within the department by identifying and reporting inefficient processes and contributing towards solutions.
• Identifies and reviews test maps of flagged test sessions (e.g. large score differences, low exam scores, test center incidents) among NABP exam programs and communicates with the Psychometrician II when a concern arises.
• Executes and supports established test security protocols.

Relationship Management

• Communicates psychometric information with internal NABP staff.
• Maintains good working relationships with exam program committees.
• Interacts with external vendors, contractors, and/or consultants.
• Collaborates with NABP staff on internal and external research initiatives.

Other Responsibilities

• Provides statistical support to Competency Assessment.
• Represents Competency Assessment interests and needs at informational technology (IT) meetings.
• Attends annual NABP training sessions.

Job Requirements

• A doctoral degree in educational measurement/assessment, educational psychology, quantitative psychology, industrial-organizational psychology, or related field.
  • Candidates expected to complete their degree within 6 to 9 months may apply.
• Working knowledge of statistical and psychometric software and programming (e.g., R and Winsteps).
• Conceptual and working knowledge of classical test theory, item response theory, and univariate/multivariate statistical analysis.
• Experience with data visualizations.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to data integrity.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent written and oral business communications skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

To apply for this position, please email the following information to hr@nabp.pharmacy:

• Your resume
• Salary expectations

No phone calls, please.