Role Responsibilities

Are you passionate about education, assessment, and student achievement? Join our team as Diploma Exam Lead, Français 30-2 and play a pivotal role in shaping provincial assessments that impact students across Alberta. In this dynamic role, you will lead the development and delivery of high-quality Français 30-2 diploma examinations, collaborate with educators and subject matter experts, and help ensure assessments are fair, valid, and aligned with curriculum outcomes. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to educational excellence while influencing the future of student learning and achievement.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Humanities, the Diploma Exam Lead, Français 30-2 is responsible for overseeing the design, development, scoring, and reporting of Alberta’s Français 30-2 diploma exams. This role requires written and oral mastery of the French and English languages, as well as subject matter expertise in minority Francophone Education contexts.

The responsibilities of the Diploma Exam Lead, Français 30-2 are as follows:

• Assessment development and production: Produce high-quality, valid and reliable diploma exams to ensure fairness to students.
• Assessment standards and blueprints: Develop and confirm assessment standards and blueprints that reflect the Program of Studies and Curriculum through collaboration with Ministry colleagues and consultation with clients, stakeholders, and partners.
• Psychometric quality and fairness: Collaborate with psychometricians to ensure psychometric principles and guidelines are applied to field tests, diploma exams, development processes, and marking processes to support valid, reliable, and fair results for students.
• Technical review and exam validation: Chair technical advisory committee meetings to scrutinize diploma exams prior to production and ensure they meet quality and validity expectations.
• Document production, support materials, and special formats: Collaborate with the Document Production Unit and Special Cases Unit to ensure field tests, diploma exams, support documents, and special-format materials meet standards for quality, format, language, and accessibility.
• French translation and equivalency: Work with other diploma exam teams to ensure French translations and revisions are equivalent to English versions for mathematics, social studies, and science.
• Written response marking and scoring: Develop and manage written response marking and scoring processes that ensure fairness to students and reliability and validity of results.
• Collaboration and digital transition: Collaborate with other subject areas, assessment areas, sectors, and branches, support the transition of diploma exams to a digital format, and contribute to the evolution of provincial assessment programs.
• Teacher engagement, results reporting, and assigned duties: Recruit and train teachers in field test question construction, build teacher capacity in assessing curricular learning outcomes, ensure diploma exam data are accurate for results reviews and reporting, provide advice on interpreting diploma exam results, mentor or supervise an interchange participant when applicable, and perform duties as assigned.

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APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviours that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

• Agility:Adapts to evolving curriculum, assessment standards, digital exam delivery, and changing operational priorities while maintaining the quality, validity, and fairness of Français 30-2 diploma exams.
• Drive for ResultsTakes accountability for producing high-quality, reliable diploma exams and support materials by coordinating development, review, production, scoring, and reporting processes within required timelines.
• Develop Networks Builds and maintains effective working relationships with Ministry colleagues, psychometricians, francophone teachers, school authorities, advisory committees, document production staff, and other partners to support fair, valid, and curriculum-aligned Français 30-2 assessments.
• Build Collaborative Environments: Builds and maintains a collaborative and cooperative environment with internal staff, teachers involved with working groups, and key stakeholders through strong consultation and communication.

Qualifications

Master’s Degree in a related field plus five years related experience or equivalent as described below.

Equivalency: Bachelor’s Degree in a related field plus seven years of related experience.

Must have a valid permanent Alberta Teaching Certificate

The position requires the following knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Subject matter expertise in Français 30-2, French first-language curriculum, and minority Francophone education contexts to support the development of fair, valid, reliable, and curriculum-aligned diploma exams.

• Advanced written and oral communication skills in French and English, with the ability to review, revise, and support the production of high-quality French-language exam materials, support documents, and resources.
• Teaching and leadership experience at the school, school authority, jurisdictional, and/or provincial level, including experience working with teachers, committees, and education partners.
• Advanced knowledge of large-scale assessment, assessment standards, blueprint development, written response marking, scoring processes, and current issues, trends, and research related to French language assessments.
• Ability to apply assessment and psychometric principles in collaboration with psychometricians to support the quality, validity, reliability, and fairness of field tests, diploma exams, marking, and scoring processes.
• Sound project management, collaboration, and digital skills to coordinate exam development, technical review, document production, reporting, stakeholder engagement, and the transition of assessment processes to digital platforms.

Assets:

• Experience participating in or leading provincial assessment development, marking and scoring, or formal assessment review processes.
• Experience with AI and digital components (aligned with shift to digital platforms).

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.

Notes

This is one (1) Temporary Full Time (2 Year) onsite position working full-time (36.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday).

The position is based in Edmonton.

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

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