Job Description:

We Impact Lives Through Purpose-Driven Work in A People First Culture

Ascend Learning is the connection between a powerful portfolio of brands serving students, educators, and employers with outcomes-based, data driven solutions across the lifecycle of learning.

Our values-driven culture unifies our teams and inspires a mindset of action, innovation, and collaboration, with a relentless focus on customers.

We're always looking for talented, passionate professionals to join us in our mission to help change lives. If this sounds like an environment where you'd thrive, read on to learn more.

Ascend Learning’s Nursing Segment is fueled by a commitment to excellence in nursing education. Our nursing brands — ATI, APEA, and NursingCE — offer evidence-based solutions designed to develop practice-ready nurses who are prepared for board certification and clinical practice. We use data analytics and engaging learning tools to help nursing students master core content. And we provide nursing education programs and professionals with best-in-class support and expertise from some of the sharpest minds in nursing education. We aid nurse educators in understanding students’ comprehension based on nearly two decades of data — including more than 12 million proctored assessments — that detail student learning and performance. The result is customers who are confident in the advice and guidance we provide with our quality-focused assessments and positive outcomes.

 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Do you have a passion for helping the next generation of nurses? Do you want to develop content solutions for prelicensure education and practicing nurses? Are you detail-oriented, yet task and deadline driven? As a Nursing Education Specialist at Ascend Learning you will combine your faculty and clinical expertise to develop products that meet real world needs.

WHERE YOU’LL WORK

This position offers the flexibility of remote work within the continental United States. 

HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME

• Create original and/or update existing nursing content that reflects current practice. Content includes assessment items, tutorials, simulations, and/or other products as defined.


• Work effectively with cross-functional teams demonstrating strong presentation, organizational, problem-solving, communication, and professional-level writing expertise with great attention to detail.


• Able to manage multiple projects and tasks, work effectively in a rapidly changing environment and meet ongoing and overlapping deadlines.

• Attend and actively participate in item review meetings with internal or external subject matter experts.


• Respond appropriately to internal and external client inquiries in a timely fashion.

• Assist with training and coordinating internal and external contributors on projects.


• Communicate clearly and concisely to align product specification requirements.

• Conduct beta testing and quality assurance checks on products prior to release.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• Five years as a full-time faculty member, teaching both theory and clinical, in a prelicensure practical, associate, diploma, or baccalaureate program.


• Expertise in teaching prelicensure adult medical-surgical nursing and/or advanced medical-surgical nursing, as well as the ability to create generalist-level content across the nursing curriculum.


• MSN and current RN license required.


• Proficient with Microsoft Office products, Adobe Acrobat, and the internet


• Conducting literature searches using a variety of research databases.


• Authoring professional-level, original content.


• Writing items for nursing tests following an assessment blueprint.


• Knowledge of and ability to align products with the NCLEX-PN and NCLEX-RN detailed test plans.


• Knowledge of current nursing practice and trends in prelicensure nursing education.


• Ability to discern and follow detailed product development guidelines, while meeting established deadlines.


• Occasional travel required.


• Ability to lift 25 lbs.

BENEFITS

• Flexible and generous paid time off


• Competitive medical, dental, vision and life insurance


• 401(k) employer matching program


• Parental leave


• Wellness resources


• Charitable matching program


• Hybrid work


• On-site workout facilities (Leawood, Gilbert, Burlington)


• Community outreach groups


• Tuition reimbursement

Fostering A Sense of Belonging

We seek out and celebrate all people and perspectives and cultivate an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued and be their authentic selves. Our culture is firmly rooted in the belief that by embracing our differences and drawing on diverse perspectives, we are a stronger, more innovative, and more successful organization where employees experience a sense of belonging.

About Ascend Learning

As a tech-enabled services company, Ascend Learning is a national leader in developing and delivering data-driven online educational content, software, assessments, analytics, and simulations serving institutions, students and employers across healthcare, fitness and wellness, public and workplace safety, skilled trades, insurance, financial services, cybersecurity, and higher education. We're committed to accelerating the learning pathways that can move people into careers where they have the knowledge and skills to have an impact and help change lives in the communities they serve. Headquartered in Burlington, MA with additional office locations and hybrid and remote workers in cities across the U.S., Ascend Learning was recognized by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group as one of America's 2023 Greatest Workplaces for Diversity.

Ascend Learning, LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer (M/F/Vets/Disabled). No agency or search firm submissions will be accepted. Applications for U.S. based positions with Ascend Learning, LLC must be legally authorized to work in the United States and verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

 

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