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The College Board Senior Director, AP Curriculum and Assessment in Olympia, Washington
About the Team The AP Curriculum and Assessment Team at College Board (65+ 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. AP's Course Leads and Assessment Leads 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. About the Opportunity As the Senior Director, AP Curriculum and Assessment, you are responsible for reviewing, providing feedback and training on curriculum and assessment materials across AP's 40+ subjects. You support AP C&A Leadership (VP, Department Heads, Assessment ED) by: * Reviewing assessment materials and leading assessment review processes * Curating professional learning materials and trainings for the team of 50+ Course Leads and Assessment Leads * Guiding the development and review of cross-subject curriculum and assessment assets * Managing the inaugural AP Assessment Fellows program AP Assessment Review (25%) * Complete form reviews across AP Exams ensuring adherence to FAS, alignment to Curriculum Framework, political sensitivity, and all other documented review requirements * Under direction of ED, Assessment, facilitate fairness and diff review processes across multiple AP subjects by documenting requirements, training staff, and completing reviews * Increase efficiency of item and form review process by documenting assessment domains (certain skills, content areas, stimulus types, or question types) that require more intensive requirements documentation and review, as well as assessment domains that do not require the same level of intensity * In collaboration with Department Heads, ED, Assessment, and VP, C&A, refine documentation and requirements for item and form reviews C&A Team Professional Learning (25%) * Manage annual calendar of professional learning for the AP C&A team based on the annual AP cycle and other project work, including training and learning to occur in the annual in-person full-team meeting, twice-annual in-person department meetings, monthly virtual full team meetings, and the quarterly C&A leadership meetings * Build library of trainings and ensure that all Course and Assessment leads are trained "just in time" for each annual cycle activity * Build library of onboarding training for new staff * Develop templates and exemplar artifacts to ensure consistency of approach and sharing of relevant knowledge across C&A team for all new content development * Coordinate across the team to identify areas of professional learning opportunities. * Using inputs from ED, Assessment, build cross-team training assets for all Course Leads and Assessment Leads to support insourced assessment work * Support ED, Assessment in organizing, documenting, and delivering professional learning for Course Leads and Assessment Leads, including the Assessment Community of Practice * In collaboration with department heads and VP, C&A, support monthly C&A team professional learning virtual meetings (establishing topics based on needs, collaborating with DHs on planning activities/assets/presentations for each meeting, etc.) Cross-Subject AP Curriculum and Assessment Assets (25%) * Lead cross-subject pre To view the full job description,