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Vice President, AP Instructional Design Advanced Placement & Instruction Remote, with hybrid options available in New York City or Reston, VA Type: This is a full-time position About the Team The College Board's Advanced Placement and Instruction division (260 staff) develops and administers coursework taken by more than 3 million students worldwide each school year, and the related subject-matter exams utilized by more than 4,000 colleges and universities for course placement and awarding of college credit. These include credit and placement examination programs like CLEP and ACCUplacer; Advanced Placement (AP) and Pre-AP courses in 40+ disciplines; and associated teacher professional learning programs. The Advanced Placement Program is the largest offering in the division's portfolio, and currently has five departments: Curriculum and Assessment, which develops the course frameworks, designs the exams, and guides the grading and scoring process; Delivery, which manages the annual cycle of transactions with schools - from student registration to exam administration, scoring, and score reporting; Access, which focuses on expanding availability of AP and Pre-AP courses, participation among traditionally underserved students, and supporting teachers; Strategy, which measures and evaluates the program's components and leads the development and implementation of strategic initiatives; and Digital, which leads product development of the Bluebook digital assessment platform, manages the implementation of digital testing for AP Exams, and provides instructional resources via AP Classroom. This Vice President will establish vision and strategy for the instructional design of AP courses, with a focus on relevance and student engagement while maintaining alignment with standards for college credit. To this end, the Vice President will develop and lead a new department within the AP Program, the Instructional Design department. About the Opportunity The AP Instructional Design department will lead the researching, prototyping, and developing of instructional and design requirements for new AP courses and for revisions to expand reach and relevance. This includes analyzing and identifying options for course content, the role of projects and project-based learning in the course or exam, requirements from colleges and state standards, and features that will enhance career readiness and active learning. To do this you will develop and lead approaches such as, but not limited to, the following: * Generate clear and nuanced options for new content by casting a wide net to surface competing priorities and opportunities; drawing upon relevant research and cognitive science; identifying and evaluating trade-offs between competing priorities; and applying deep personal expertise in curriculum design and instruction. * Envision and build new instructional models that make AP more relevant and engaging to broader groups of students and makes good instruction easier for teachers. * Develop and refine instructional components for new content and build a team able to do this well, ensuring exemplary design that can be applied at scale. * Run the governance processes (including managing a Project Management Office) to develop and launch new content across AP divisions. Your Instructional Design department will enact these responsibilities across four design phases: Analysis phase. Your Instructional Design department will partner with the Strategy department and the College Board's Learning & Assessment division to conduct curricular and field research. You will generate options and identify trade-offs in various curricular and assessment choices we could make for content, instructio To view the full job description,