Senior Director I, AP Art History and History-Social Science Generalist, Curriculum and Assessment

About this role

Senior Director, AP Art History and History-Social Science   

College Board -   AP & Instruction  

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 English, World Languages, and Arts department, which includes English Literature, English Language, Spanish Language, Italian Language, French Language, German Language, Chinese Language, Japanese Language, Latin, Music Theory, Spanish Literature, and Art and Design is currently made up of 28 people supporting 14 courses in the AP portfolio .    The Science department, which includes biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, environmental science, anatomy and physiology, and Research, is currently made up of 20 people supporting 10 courses in the AP portfolio. The History and Social Science department, which includes history, art history, human geography, government and politics, economics, business, African American studies, and Seminar, is currently made up of 28 people supporting 12 courses in the AP portfolio. The Math and Computer Science department, which includes computer science, precalculus, calculus, and statistics, is currently made up of 11 people supporting 6 courses in the AP portfolio.  

About the Opportunity  

As the Senior Director I, AP Art History and History-Social 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 Art History and History-Social 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 Art History and History-Social Science, and, in partnership with other AP teams, further the strategic growth of AP Art History and History-Social 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 Art History and History-Social Science, with primary responsibility for assessment development and final assessment (items and forms) approval for AP Art History and History-Social Science .    Your work will vary from year to year, with accountability across multiple 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 Art History and History-Social Science through iterative review stages with multiple internal and external stakeholders, including the AP Art History and History-Social Science Team, Assessment Production

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