This job was posted by https://idahoworks.gov : For more information,please see: https://idahoworks.gov/jobs/2155040 Location: This is afully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the optionof being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).
Type:This is a full-time position
About the Team
The Advanced Placement Curriculum and Assessment team supports CollegeBoard in serving more than seven million students a year as they preparefor a successful transition to college through programs and services incollege readiness and college success - specifically through theAdvanced Placement (AP) Program. With more than 30 courses in a varietyof subject areas, we are committed to promoting innovation, equity, andexcellence for generations of students. Within the Advanced Placementand Curriculum Assessment pillar, our team focuses primarily on thedevelopment and growth of existing AP History and Social Science coursesand the launch of new courses within the subjects.
About the Opportunity
As the Director of AP Comparative Government and Politics, you will beresponsible for preserving and improving the quality and validity of theAP Program\'s core deliverables within the subject domain: the coursecurriculum, the exam, and the professional development content. You willserve as the primary point of contact in AP for committees andcommunities of subject-matter experts and will be responsible for thecurriculum, instruction, and assessment for AP Comparative Governmentand Politics, as well as the strategic growth of AP ComparativeGovernment and Politics across the globe. Additionally, you will havethe opportunity to present, speak, and moderate dialogue with academicand membership audiences to ensure that ongoing change and improvementwithin AP courses and exams is understood, accepted, and supported insecondary and post-secondary educational communities.
In this role you will:
Curriculum and Instruction (40%)
Collaborate with the AP Instructional Products team to develop newproducts designed to address unmet teacher instructional needs,including developing prototypes, participating in small-scalemarket-testing, and creating models for subsequent development inconjunction with other AP workstreamsProvide curriculum and assessment development protocol training,translate between academics and technical experts (test developersand psychometricians), and collaborate to develop curricular andinstructional materials and resources to support AP ComparativeGovernment and Politics teachers worldwideRecruit, train, and directly supervise Committee members indesignated subject areas as content development contributors. Liaisewith key internal stakeholders (AP Publications, AP ProjectManagement, and AP Professional Development staff) to executeproject plansContribute to current research and best practices related tocurriculum development, instructional pedagogies, and assessment;participate in regular discussions with other Curriculum,Instruction, and Assessment members on the current professionalliterature to build a set of common, shared beliefs about AP\'sdirection within the larger educational communityAssessment (50%)
Develop, review, and approve AP Comparative Government and PoliticsExam content in collaboration with AP Assessment staff and ETS testdevelopment staff, ensuring the exam development aligns withapproved curricula and test specificationsMake recommendations for AP Comparative Government and Politics examdesign improvements in collaboration with and aligned to otherCollege Board initiativesMonitor and improve exam validity and reader reliability inaccordance with established AP program thresholdsConduct multiple face-to-face, weekend mee ings and virtual meetingsannually with each of the committees within the Director\'sstewardship as well as other committee meetings in the discipline asneededStrategic Growth (10%)
Manage existing AP Development Committee recruitment and membership;direct the overarching AP outreach strategy for the AP ComparativeGovernment and Politics course
Represent and increase support for the AP Program\'s mission amongexternal stakeholders in AP Comparative Government and Politics througha variety of strategies, including growth across all ComparativeGovernment and Politics programs and initiatives
Recommend strategies and approaches that will help the programeffectively scale to support and encourage high usage across urban,suburban and rural districts geographically distributed. Supporttranslating the existing PL model to effectively address the needs of APteachers in that discipline
Work with the AP Higher Education team to co-develop and implement plansto raise college and university awareness of AP courses and exams in thesubject area
Assist efforts to recruit college faculty and experienced AP teachers toserve as AP Readers; co-lead the planning and execution ofdiscipline-specific AP Faculty Colloquia events
Collaborate with pre-AP staff to develop a pipeline of resou