Child Assessment and Research Manager

Step into a role as a Child Assessment and Research Manager at Bright Horizons, where in this support role, you will be responsible for the management and successful implementation of our proprietary child assessment tool, including collaboratively designing frameworks for assessment, collecting and interpreting data about and from assessments and child documentation to ensure children's progress and growth, conducting pilots or surveys to test student growth and outcomes, creating curriculum crosswalks with common core or other relevant standards, working on state curriculum and assessment approvals, and other projects related to their scope of work, ensuring we maintain and exceed our high quality expectations and research-informed practices. The role will also manage research projects focused on improving or measuring child outcomes. The manager will collaborate with the team and full department to meet our goals of delivering the highest- quality early learning experiences for children and represent the department in related cross-functional work and external events/collaborations.

This is aremote role.

Bright Horizons is a leading education and care company, trusted by families and employers around the world for high-quality child care and early education, back-up care, and workplace education. We partner with some of the world's best companies to provide services that help employees perform their best and support families to thrive both personally and professionally.

Responsibilities:

Depending on the line of business, the position may perform some or all of the below functions:

• Oversee the management and successful implementation of our proprietary child assessment tool.

• Design and implement comprehensive child assessment frameworks that align with curriculum goals and standards.

• Conduct pilots or surveys to test student growth and outcomes.

• Manage research projects focused on improving and measuring child outcomes.

• Collect and interpret data about assessments to ensure children's progress and growth.

• Work on state curriculum and assessment approvals, and crosswalks with common core or other relevant standards.

• Manage projects in assigned specialty including meeting deadlines, collaborating with stakeholders and team members, and ensuring intended outcomes are met.

• Work in partnership with other education & dev team members and members of other departments.

• Serve as an expert to the field in areas of specialty.

• Align high-quality standards both internal and external such as NAEYC accreditation, to all aspects of work.

• Balance urgency and quality; communicate thoroughly, effectively, and empathetically.

• Support department projects, as ne

• Stay connected to early education & curriculum research and work of organizations.

• Contribute to company and department goals in all efforts.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Education, Child Development - Required

• Master's Degree in Education, Child Devlopment, related field - Preferred

• 5 years Early Childhood Education - Required

• 3 years Working with child assessment tools, data, research in early childhood - Required

• 3 years Professional experience working for multi-site, multi-state early care and education delivery/operations - Preferred