Manager Content Development

About The Company:
Aspiring Minds is a global job skills credentialing leader set up with a vision to create a merit driven talent ecosystem and enable efficient job skills matching by crafting credible and intelligent assessments. The flagship product AMCAT, is the worlds most widely-taken employability test helping over two million candidates find the ‘right jobs every year. Backed by state-of-the-art, adaptive assessment technology and machine learning algorithms - it allows adaptive, standardized and reliable measurement of generic employability skills (language, cognitive, behavior) and a wide range of functional skills using simulated assessments. Aspiring Minds enables job seekers to evaluate their job skills, earn industry recognized credentials and find appropriate career opportunities. We also help companies dramatically improve their quality and efficiency of hiring and are today associated with more than 3500 corporations. Founded in 2008 by Himanshu and Varun Aggarwal.

Aspiring Minds is a 500 people strong organization with operations in US, China, India, Middle East, Philippines and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Website: https://www.aspiringminds.com/in/

Job Location: Gurgaon

Desired experience: Freshers

Course Specialization: B.Tech (all streams)/BCA/B.Sc

Academic Criteria: 60 Percent throughout

Target Batch Pass out: 2019

Probation/Training Period: 2 months

Bond: No

Salary Structure: INR 3 LPA

(The final CTC will depend upon the candidate's performance in the interview and at the discretion of the company)

Tentative date of Joining: Immediate

Tentative date of interview: Will be communicated post registration window is closed

*The shortlisted candidates will be sent Admit Cards/Call Letters on their registered mail Id, which they will need to, carry on the date of Interview. No candidate will be entertained by the company without the formal intimation from Aspiring Minds.

Job Description:
The candidate shall be responsible for designing high-quality assessment content individually and in a team as per the requirement. The responsibilities shall include understanding the assessment objective, developing the test blueprint, item specifications, designing items and ensuring a strong quality control/review mechanism.

Responsibilities shall include:

Test Design and Development:
- Elicit requirements by understanding the brief, conducting primary and secondary research and engaging with industry professionals and academia. Critically analyse and amalgamate information to define blueprints.
- Develop a comprehensive test blueprint, with learnings drawn from different knowledge-based instruments.
- Develop original content in areas of expertise.
- Work on content analytics and study the quality of test items based on candidate endorsement data.
- Develop situational judgment tests to measure the competencies required on the job for different roles by analysing the job and identifying different work situations.
- Closely check the developed content in adherence to global scientific guidelines. This would include content proofreading, translation checks, and other quality checks followed as a part of the standard operating procedure.
- Develop the product map and content for state-of-the-art testing technologies like simulation tests.

Project Management:
- Associate and engage with Subject Matter Experts/Industry experts to support the content developers and reviewers to finalize curriculum/content for different tests.
- Associate and engage with translation agencies and other vendors to get translations done for different tests or to solicit other services to support content development.
- Associate with in-house and external proof-readers/copyeditors to get the content of the test reviewed before it is made live.
- Manage a module testing team to check for bugs or errors before the test becomes live.
- Multitask to rollout (or deliver) multiple tests in a given time frame.

Interview Process:
- Home Assignment
- Skype Interview (if required)
- Selection Process during face to face interview