Associate Director, AP Professional Learning and Course Audit Operation

About the Team 

AP® is a rigorous academic program built on the commitment, passion, and hard work of students and educators from both secondary schools and higher education. With almost 40 courses in a wide variety of subject areas, AP provides high school students with the opportunity to study and learn at the college level. The AP Professional Learning and Course Audit team provide support for teachers through AP Summer Institutes, one day workshops, AP Mentoring and the AP Project Based Learning Series as well as run the annual course audit. Through this work, we engage with over 50,000 teachers each year.   

About the Opportunity  

As a member of the Advanced Placement Professional Learning and Course Audit team, the Associate Director will manage the day-to-day operations for consultants and reviewers, focused on high quality and efficient delivery of the AP Professional Learning and Course Audit annual cycles. The Associate Director will manage reviewer and workshop consultant recruitment, training, and performance as well as the development of teacher and reviewer resources to support course document submission and review processes required for AP course authorization. The Associate Director will also manage the execution of learning events by assigning consultants, monitoring event evaluations, and conducting required follow-up to address both performance and operational issues. The Associate Director will manage all consultant and reviewer communications, including the online communities, and will serve as the liaison between internal subject-matter experts and consultants in their respective disciplines. In addition, the Associate Director will execute protocols for ongoing process evaluation and make recommendations to senior leadership to improve the quality of support and resources for participating teachers, administrators, and reviewers. 

In this role, you will:  

Workshop Consultant and Mentor Management (40%) 

• Conduct an annual review of consultant and mentor’s endorsement status and notify consultants and mentors of any changes 

• Evaluate consultant capacity and mentor capacity for discipline-specific professional learning events annually, make recommendations for recruitment to further diversify the consultant pool and implement policy changes to support those recommendations 

• Assign consultants for AP professional learning events in specified discipline(s), ensuring consultants have current materials and information required for the assigned event 

• Assign mentors for AP Mentoring sessions in specified discipline(s), ensuring mentors have current materials and information required for their assigned mentoring group 

• Manage the discipline-specific Consultant Community and Google Drive by ensuring timely, relevant information is posted 

• Manage subject-specific online updates and trainings and attend in-person trainings for consultants in specified discipline(s) 

• Develop and maintain effective relationships and communication channels with consultants and mentors in specified discipline(s) 

• Develop and maintain effective relationships and communication channels with Curriculum and Instruction staff 

• Send consultant and mentor communications in specified discipline(s) on a set academic schedule aligned with other consultants and mentors 

• Facilitate discussion between internal and external subject matter experts to ensure understanding of established processes 

• Monitor assigned subject specific Online Teacher Communities to escalate any teacher inquiries and concerns related to the AP Course Audit and Professional Learning to appropriate colleagues 

• Respond to and resolve escalated questions and issues in a timely manner 

• Provide technical support to consultants and mentors during online AP Professional Learning events, such as AP Mentoring groups, AP online workshops, and state/district/school hosted AP workshops which may require work during non-office hours 

AP Course Audit (40%)  

• Manage assigned AP Subject(s) Course Audit Reviewers. Tasks include monitoring reviewer alignment, answering questions from reviewers, providing decisions on discrepant syllabus review outcomes, and assisting AP teachers during the syllabus review process, as needed 

• Periodically review and recommend updates to web content as well as educator and reviewer resources to support syllabus development, submission, and review 

• Synthesize and provide data related to course document review, reviewer management, and reviewer performance to internal and external stakeholders as needed 

• Convene and facilitate teams of internal and external subject matter experts in the cre