College Board
Senior Project Manager, AP Assessment Systems and Content Management
🇺🇸 New York, NY
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $104,000 - $155,000
💻 Product Development
🗓️ April 17th, 2024
Assessment PMP Power BIAbout the Team
The AP Curriculum and Assessment (AP C&A) Team at College Board (50+ staff) collaborates with colleagues across all aspects of the AP Program to develop, manage, and deliver AP’s 40+ 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.
About the Opportunity
As the Senior Project Manager, AP Assessment Systems and Content Management, you are the primary person managing the specifications, metadata, and content systems for the curriculum and assessment team for all 40 AP exams. In addition, you will provide project management support for AP item content and test form development by external vendors, as well as digital package User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for all AP digital exams. In support of this endeavor, you will strategize with the Executive Director of Assessment to manage the specifications for all AP forms, as well as the ecosystem of AP test and form metadata in the relevant platforms. You will work with internal and external stakeholders, including external vendors, to ensure the smooth and effective flow of AP assessment metadata and assessment deliverables across systems (and vendors, as applicable). In addition, you will be responsible for planning and creating schedules, managing projects, and tracking progress through the use of the latest business tools, including dashboards and databases, as well as written documentation and guides. These responsibilities would include, but are not limited to:
In this role, you will:
AP Specifications, Metadata, and Content Systems (70%)
- Manage specifications for all AP forms and form assembly, including maintaining gold source documentation, and provisioning specification updates to the relevant systems and stakeholders, including Hummingbird, AP Psychometrics, Assessment Production, AP Classroom, AP Delivery and external vendors.
- Maintain AP curriculum framework (content outline), subject specific, and flat field metadata in the course framework management system (Satchel), ensuring the content accuracy and technical fidelity of updates, and provisioning metadata schemes and updates to the relevant AP applications and systems, including Hummingbird, AP Classroom, AP Psychometrics, Assessment Production, and external vendors, as well as downstream systems.
- Maintain AP score models for exam form objective, essay, and composite scoring and metadata in support of AP Instructional Planning Report, and provisioning specification updates to the relevant systems and stakeholders, including Hummingbird, AP Psychometrics, Assessment Production, AP Classroom, and external vendors.
- Coordinate with the AP Course and Exam Change Management director to align specification updates for AP forms with course revisions, updates, and rubric changes across all subjects.
- Coordinate with assessment and curriculum leads to guide and ensure that all specification and metadata updates are developed, reviewed, and delivered in accordance with principles and best practices in assessment and in support of quality, reliability, validity, and fairness of AP exams.
- Serve as an AP C&A specifications and metadata point of contact on the internal Satchel team.
- Provide support for annual updates and maintenance of AP Instructional Planning Report data and coordinating with relevant systems and stakeholders to implement updates.
- Collaborate with the ED of Assessment, Psychometrics, and Assessment Production to provision validations for test specifications for AP exams, as they relate to the metadata and test specifications.
- Strategize with the ED of Assessment to document and find innovations in making accessible the AP assessment specifications, data, and content ecosystem information to all relevant stakeholders.
AP Assessment Project Management and Process (30%)
- Collaborate with external vendors producing AP item and test form content to provision project schedules and deadlines.
- Communicate project schedules and deadlines with internal teams; troubleshoot and collaborate with both internal teams and external vendors to resolve any conflicts or roadblocks with schedules and deliveries of test content.
- In collaboration with AP C&A, AP Assessment Production, and AP Digital Transformation, provision schedules and support for test form content and digital package UAT.
- Document changes to AP metadata and taxonomies in all relevant gold source applications or repositories.
- In collaboration with the ED of Assessment, Assessment Production, and external vendors, establish annual set-up and configurations for AP subjects in item authoring and test form assembly and management system.
- Serve as the primary AP C&A point of contact for the assessment input and annual set-up in the scoring systems and applications, including the systems of external vendors.
- In collaboration with the ED of Assessment and the Senior Director for AP C&A change management, assess downstream impacts and updates to relevant stakeholders and systems regarding metadata changes.
- Build a successful communications and coordination plan, as well as standard operating procedures to support assessment updates to metadata, test form assembly specifications, and score models.
About You
You have:
- A minimum of 7+ years of progressively responsible full-time professional work experience in project management and assessment
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Clear ability to identify and solve problems in a fast-paced environment
- Extensive knowledge of the Advanced Placement program and assessment design and process
- Data Analytics mindset with a technical ability to produce schedules and visualizations in programs such as Smartsheet or Power BI
- Excellent judgment and the ability to view situations and issues from multiple perspectives that leads to effective resolution of issues
- Advanced verbal and written communication skills and a record of leveraging interpersonal skills to collaborate well with others
- A strong organizational mindset, excellent prioritization skills, and a predisposition towards action and production of results
- Formal project management credential: e.g. CAPM, PMP, PRINCE2, IPMA certification or a project management certificate from an accredited institution preferred
- A customer-centric, empathetic, service-oriented, and organization-first mindset
- Proficiency with Microsoft Project and other Microsoft Office applications
- Willingness to travel 3 to 4 times a year (domestic)
- You are eligible to work in the US for any employer
About Our Benefits and Compensation
College Board offers a competitive benefits and compensation program that attracts top talent looking to make a difference in education. As a self-sustaining non-profit, we believe in compensating employees equitably in relation to each other, their qualifications, their impact, and the relevant market.
The hiring range for a new employee in this position is $ 104,000-$155,000.00. College Board differentiates salaries by location so where you live will narrow the portion of this range in which you can expect a salary.
Your salary will be carefully determined based on your location, relevant experience, the external labor market, and the pay of College Board employees in similar roles. College Board strives to provide our best offer up front based on this criteria.
Your salary is only one part of all that College Board offers, including but not limited to:
- A comprehensive package designed to support the well-being of employees and their families and promote education. Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, pet insurance, tuition assistance, retirement benefits, and more
- Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses, salary growth over time through market increases, and opportunities for merit raises and promotions based on increased scope of responsibility
- A job that matters, a team that cares, and a place to learn, innovate and thrive
- You can expect to have transparent conversations about benefits and compensation with our recruiters throughout your application process.
About Our Culture
Our community matters, and we strive to practice and improve our culture daily. Here are some headlines:
- We are motivated to positively impact the educational and career trajectories of millions of students a year.
- We prioritize building a diverse and inclusive team where every employee can thrive, and every voice is heard.
- We welcome staff to join any or all six of our affinity groups: ARISE (Alliance for Asian Retention, Inclusion, Success, and Engagement; DIASPORA (Alliance for Pan-African Success and Achievement); Pride (alliance for LGBTQ+ staff and allies); Resilience (alliance for Native staff and advocates); SALSA (Staff Alliance for Latinx Success and Achievement); and WIN (Women’s Impact Network).
- We value learning and growth; we offer formal and informal ways to lead through your superpowers, sharpen your strengths, and meet your development goals.
- We know that our impact is strongest together. Our College Board Cares program offers all staff up to $1,000 annual match against partner non-profit organizations.
- We offer a transparent approach to promotions and merit raises, annual performance-based bonuses, and how to grow your career here over time.
