Senior Director I, AP Science Generalist, Curriculum and Assessment

Senior Director I, AP Science Generalist, Curriculum and Assessment 

Location: This is a remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.  

Role Type: This is a full-time position 

About the Team 

The AP Curriculum and Assessment Team at College Board (125+ staff) collaborates with colleagues across all aspects of the AP Program to develop, manage, and deliver AP's 43 courses in a wide variety of subject areas. AP® is a rigorous academic program built on the commitment, passion, and hard work of students and educators from secondary schools and higher education. AP provides willing and academically prepared high school students with the opportunity to study and learn at the college level. AP's course teams comprised of educators and disciplinary experts ensure that course curricula are aligned to higher education expectations and reflect the state of the art in the discipline, contribute to instructional resources and tools for teachers, and develop assessments that allow students in these courses to demonstrate their mastery of course content and skills. AP leads in strategic use of AI to expand student access, strengthen instructional design and professional support, and enhance assessment creation and exam analysis. The Science department, which includes biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, environmental science, anatomy and physiology, and Research, is currently made up of 21 people supporting 10 courses in the AP portfolio.  

About the Opportunity 

As the Senior Director I, AP Science Assessment Generalist you will be responsible for preserving and improving the quality and validity of the AP Program's core deliverables within the subject domain: the exam, the course curriculum, and the professional development content. You are also responsible for item development and management from authoring to administration across multiple course titles; training and collaborating with subject-matter experts (SMEs), typically college professors and secondary school teachers. You will ethically and effectively integrate AI technologies in assessment creation and review, providing leadership and modeling for course experts across multiple course titles. This includes judiciously using AI assisted tools to support fairness, validity, and innovation in AP assessments. You will train SMEs on assessment development protocols, translate between academics and technical experts (psychometricians), and collaborate to develop formative assessment materials and resources to support AP Science teachers worldwide. You will serve as a point of contact in AP for committees and communities of subject-matter experts and will be responsible for the curriculum and assessment for AP Science, and, in partnership with other AP teams, further the strategic growth of AP Science across the globe. Additionally, you may have the opportunity to present, speak, and moderate dialogue with academic and membership audiences to ensure that ongoing change and improvement within AP courses and exams is understood, accepted, and supported in secondary and post-secondary educational communities.  

In this role, you will: 

Assessment Development and Scoring (40-50%)  

• Serve as an assessment leader for AP Science, with primary responsibility for assessment development and final assessment (items and forms) approval for AP Science.  Your work will vary from year to year, with accountability across two or more test titles, requiring assessment and content domain expertise across multiple subject areas. You will be accountable for developing and reviewing content, and providing final program sign-off on test forms. You will be assigned work based upon needs that vary year to year, which means you will be accountable for seamlessly moving in and out of assessment workstreams across subjects, leveraging your expertise about assessment, assessment processes, and content domain expertise. Your work in developing and revising test content is of the quality that typically requires no adjustments based on feedback from your manager and other program leaders.  

• Independently lead processes for authoring and revising assessment content, including training educator constituents. Leverage generative AI (as appropriate for subject/discipline) to author and/or review assessment content to improve and/or make more efficient assessment processes and outputs. 

• Independently lead the development and management of assessment content (formative and summative) and scoring materials for AP Science through iterative review stages with multiple internal and external stakeholders, including the AP Science Team, Assessment Production team, Test Development Committee, and the Chief Reader, as appropriate. 

• Independently lead the development of assessment forms for AP Science, ensuring the AP Exam development aligns with approved curricula and test specifications. 

• Lead multiple face-to-face, weekend meetings, and virtual meetings (during work week, evenings, or weekends) annually with the AP Science Test Development Committees. You independently strategize and develop an agenda and approach to ensure the committee's meeting time is of the highest productivity; you successfully adapt and pivot during the meeting as needed; and you successfully resolve all post-meeting item content edits. 

• Train and directly supervise Test Development Committee members in AP Science/Life Science as content development contributors and reviewers.  

• Lead the successful scoring of student responses for AP Science Exams at the annual scoring event in person and online—the "AP Reading"—and produce AP Reading publications materials for teacher and student use. You independently plan all-year, with increasing intensity in the months leading up to the Reading, ensuring all workflow steps for this incredibly complex event, as well as all post-Reading activities, are accounted for and successfully executed. 

Assessment Quality and Process (25-30%) 

• Contribute to current research and best practices in assessment, and engage regularly with AP Curriculum & Assessment colleagues to align on standards and shared principles guiding AP's assessment directions 

• Provide functional leadership of cross-subject assessment workstreams to ensure consistency and leverage efficiencies. Will serve as an expert resource for course team and leadership consultation.

• Provide formal training and informal mentoring to other Course Experts within your AP Science, based on need.