Senior Director, AP English Language and Seminar Generalist, Curriculum and Assessment

College Board • New York, NY

10d • $112,000 - $165,000 • Remote

About The Position

The AP Curriculum and Assessment Team at College Board is seeking a Senior Director, AP English Language and Seminar Generalist, Curriculum and Assessment. This role is 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. The position involves item development and management from authoring to administration across multiple course titles, training and collaborating with subject-matter experts (SMEs), and ethically integrating AI technologies in assessment creation and review. The Senior Director will provide leadership and modeling for course experts, train SMEs on assessment development protocols, translate between academics and technical experts, and collaborate to develop formative assessment materials. This role serves as a point of contact for committees and communities of subject-matter experts, is responsible for the curriculum and assessment for AP English Language and Seminar, and will further the strategic growth of these courses globally. Additionally, the role may involve presenting and speaking with academic and membership audiences to ensure understanding and support for ongoing changes within AP courses and exams.

Requirements

• A Master’s degree in English, Rhetoric and Composition, or a directly related discipline, and knowledge of current trends in the discipline (required)
• Expertise in English, Rhetoric Composition, or a closely related field with at least 10 years of experience in standardized assessment development or related work
• 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 English Language and Seminar with primary responsibility for assessment development and final assessment (items and forms) approval.
• Develop and review content, and provide final program sign-off on test forms.
• Independently lead processes for authoring and revising assessment content, including training educator constituents.
• Leverage generative AI 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 English Language and Seminar through iterative review stages.
• Independently lead the development of assessment forms for AP English Language and Seminar, ensuring alignment with approved curricula and test specifications.
• Lead multiple face-to-face, weekend meetings, and virtual meetings annually with the AP English Language and Seminar Test Development Committees.
• Train and directly supervise Test Development Committee members in AP English Language and Seminar as content development contributors and reviewers.
• Lead the successful scoring of student responses for AP English Language and Seminar Exams at the annual scoring event and produce AP Reading publications materials.
• Contribute to current research and best practices in assessment, and engage regularly with AP Curriculum & Assessment colleagues to align on standards and shared principles.
• Provide functional leadership of cross-subject assessment workstreams to ensure consistency and leverage efficiencies.
• Provide formal training and informal mentoring to other Course Experts within your AP English Language and Seminar.
• Develop strong efficiencies in item development through well-defined and well-documented task models, item development training and processes, and highly effective use of generative AI.
• Independently lead initiatives to refine and improve question task models as well as exam design in collaboration with AP Curriculum & Assessment leaders.
• Monitor exam validity, security, reliability, fairness, and quality, as well as reader reliability in accordance with established Program thresholds for AP English Language and Seminar exams.
• Collaborate with psychometrics and AP Curriculum & Assessment staff to establish fair, reliable, and valid cut scores for AP English Language and Seminar exams.
• Train and support course experts in assessment development practices, including quality, validity, fairness, and use of generative AI.
• Mentor team members in effectively facilitating test development committees and working with external stakeholders.
• Refine and improve AP English Language and Seminar Course Framework to ensure clear and explicit learning outcomes that align with strategic priorities.
• Collaborate with AP teams to support the development of new products for AP English Language and Seminar designed to address unmet teacher instructional needs.

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: Senior