Director I, AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism Curriculum and Assessment

College Board

4d • $96,000 - $135,000 • Remote

About The Position

The AP Curriculum and Assessment Team at College Board collaborates with colleagues across all aspects of the AP Program to develop, manage, and deliver AP’s 43 courses. AP® is a rigorous academic program built on the commitment, passion, and hard work of students and educators. AP provides willing and academically prepared high school students with the opportunity to study and learn at the college level. AP’s course teams 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 supports 10 courses in the AP portfolio.

As the Director I, AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism, 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; 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, 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 Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism 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 Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism, and, in partnership with other AP teams, further the strategic growth of AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism 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.

Requirements

• A Master’s degree in Physics or a directly related discipline, and knowledge of current trends in the discipline (required), although a doctorate in the discipline is strongly preferred
• Expertise in Physics with at least 5 years of experience in standardized assessment development or related work; experience with digital assessment and teaching preferred
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with solid technical proficiency and a customer-focused mindset
• Excellent organizational and planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and maintain close attention to detail, including proofreading
• Demonstrated ability to implement processes and procedures, manage project plans and schedules, and maintain tracking documentation
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across all levels, and engage in giving and receiving constructive feedback
• Ability to travel 6-8 times per year, plus up to two additional weeks for the AP Reading; must be eligible to work in the United States
• A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions and comfort with learning and applying new digital tools independently and proactively.
• Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal
• A learner's mindset and a commitment to growth: welcoming diverse perspectives, giving and receiving timely, respectful feedback, and continuously improving through iterative learning and user input.
• A drive for impact and excellence: solving complex problems, making data-informed decisions, prioritizing what matters most, and continuously improving through learning, user input, and external benchmarking.
• A collaborative and empathetic approach: working across differences, fostering trust, and contributing to a culture of shared success
• Authorization to work in the United States

Nice To Haves

• A doctorate in the discipline is strongly preferred
• Experience with digital assessment and teaching preferred

Responsibilities

• Serve as an assessment leader for AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism, with primary responsibility for assessment development for AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism.
• Independently lead processes for authoring and revising assessment content, including training educator constituents and leveraging generative AI to author and/or review assessment content, improving and/or making more efficient assessment processes and outputs.
• Independently lead the development and management of assessment content (formative and summative) and scoring materials for AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism through iterative review stages with multiple internal and external stakeholders, including the AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism Team, Assessment Production team, Test Development Committee, and the Chief Reader, as appropriate.
• Independently lead the development of assessment forms for AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism, 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 Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism Test Development Committee. You 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 Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism as content development contributors and reviewers.
• Recruit educators for the AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism Development Committee and other opportunities to support AP Program.
• Lead the successful scoring of student responses for AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism Exams at the annual scoring event in person and online—the “AP Reading”—and produce AP Reading publications materials for teacher and student use.
• 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.
• Support assessment workstreams within the AP Science.
• Contribute to processes for efficient, high-quality assessment development.
• Contribute to initiatives to refine and improve question task models as well as exam design in collaboration with AP Curriculum & Assessment leaders and aligned to other College Board initiatives to achieve psychometric and disciplinary best practices on AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism exams.
• Monitor exam validity, security, reliability, fairness, and quality, as well as reader reliability in accordance with established Program thresholds for AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism exam, identifying areas for improvement and executing on targeted improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with psychometrics and AP Curriculum & Assessment staff to establish fair, reliable, and valid cut scores for AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism exam.
• Refine and improve AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism Course Framework to ensure clear and explicit learning outcomes that align with strategic priorities, including ensuring college/disciplinary standards as well as expanding the scope of reaching a broader audience of AP students.
• Collaborate with AP teams to support the development of new products for AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism designed to address unmet teacher instructional needs, potentially including developing prototypes, participating in small-scale market-testing, and creating models for subsequent development in conjunction with other AP workstreams.
• Serve as a recognized and trusted resource within the educator community by collaboration and engagement with the community to drive teacher satisfaction with AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism and its exam.
• Collaborate with the AP Professional learning team to support AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism consultants and teachers.
• Work with the AP Higher Education team to co-develop and implement plans to raise college and university awareness of AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism courses and exams, including recruiting college faculty to participate in the AP Reading, co-leading the planning and execution of discipline-specific AP Faculty Colloquia events, and supporting Visiting and Virtual Fellows Programs.

Benefits

• Meaningful career
• Supportive team
• Comprehensive package designed to help you thrive
• Fair and competitive compensation grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market.
• Open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it’s like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director