Executive Director, AP World Languages and Arts – Curriculum & Assessment

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $144k - $205k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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The College Board

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1900

📚 Education

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The College Board is a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting excellence and equity in education. It connects students to college success and opportunity by supporting them in building essential skills for higher education and removing barriers to access. The College Board operates with a focus on respect, diversity, inclusion, and collaboration, with a diverse and dedicated team of professionals. Based in several locations across the United States, they strive to modernize operations and increase their digital footprint, supporting students and families nationwide.

📋 Description

• Own the quality, validity, disciplinary alignment, and accuracy of AP courses and exams in the World Languages and Arts department • Lead a department of 26 people across 10 course teams, including managers, course experts, stimulus sourcers, and a generalist • Set strategy for course and exam growth, particularly increasing zero-to-one qualifying AP Exam scores • Own public-facing activities for the department’s subjects • Advise the VP of AP Curriculum and Assessment and the AP&I SVP on department-related initiatives • Bring decision-ready recommendations, supporting evidence, tradeoffs, and requested decisions to senior leadership • Lead an independent cross-C&A enterprise workstream and deliver its defined outcome • Make final decisions on assessment content, exam design, scoring, assessment forms, validity, reliability, fairness, and quality • Oversee assessment review with course teams, Assessment Production, Test Development Committees, and Chief Readers • Own scoring outcomes and AP Reading assets for department exams • Improve assessment production practices, processes, question task models, and exam design • Transfer assessment research and best practices to the department • Ensure team members have the skills, tools, and knowledge to develop high-quality assessment content • Set team vision and priorities, manage progress, coach and support employees, and cultivate an inclusive, high-achieving culture • Lead development of course frameworks, exams, instructional assets, and standardized assessment procedures • Partner with assessment production managers on schedules and deliverables • Mentor team members in test development committees and external stakeholder engagement • Own course frameworks and learning outcomes within the department • Collaborate with professional learning, program enablement, access, teacher and student services, and higher education teams • Lead public-facing growth initiatives and plans for department courses • Support college faculty recruitment for AP Reading, AP Faculty Colloquia, and Visiting and Virtual Fellows Programs

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s degree in a directly related discipline required • Doctorate in the discipline strongly preferred • Knowledge of current trends in the discipline • 15 to 20 years of experience in standardized assessment development or related work • Experience with digital assessment and teaching preferred • At least 10 years of experience leading a team • Experience presenting recommendations to senior executives and influencing enterprise-level decisions • Superior oral and written communication skills • Excellent technical proficiency and customer-focused mindset • Excellent organizational and planning skills, including meticulous attention to detail and proofreading • Ability to implement processes and procedures, manage project plans and schedules, and maintain tracking documentation • Superior interpersonal and collaboration skills • Ability to travel 8-10 times per year, plus up to two additional weeks for the AP Reading • Passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work • Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies and willingness to adopt AI-driven solutions and new digital tools • Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills • Learner’s mindset and commitment to growth • Drive for impact and excellence, including data-informed decision-making • Collaborative and empathetic approach • Authorization to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote or hybrid option for candidates living near College Board offices (Tuesday and Wednesday in office) • Occasional business travel to meet in person • Meaningful career and supportive team • Comprehensive compensation and benefits package • Compensation adjusted by location • Transparent conversations about compensation and benefits throughout the hiring process