Director, Unified State Strategy (USS) – Growth and Implementation, African American Studies (TERM ROLE)

Director, Unified State Strategy (USS) – Growth and Implementation, AP African American Studies – TERM ROLE 

College Board – State & District Partnerships  

Location: This is a full remote role (preference of candidate residing in the Northeast Region of the United States). Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). 

**This is a full-time term position that will last for 2 years from the start date. **  

About the Team  

The Unified State Strategy (USS) team at the College Board is a dynamic unit within State and District Partnerships responsible for facilitating the development and execution of state strategy to meet divisional and organizational goals. The team provides leadership across the organization and aligns with internal and external partners to drive strategy to deliver access and opportunity to students and educators nationwide. State and District Partnerships (SDP), works to provide opportunities to students across K-12 and Higher Education, domestically and internationally, through promoting the use of College Board programs and services including assessments (e.g., SAT, PSAT, AP), BigFuture, and College Board Search.  

About the Opportunity   

As the Director, Unified State Strategy (USS) – Growth and Implementation, AP African American Studies, you are responsible to lead major sales discussions, presentations, and course placement to drive AP African American Studies broad goals for student access and course sections. In this role, you are responsible to ensure large scale implementation success by providing Administrator Training, Teacher Guidance and strategic input to support success and growth of AP African American Studies. You have influence across the division and the organization, with responsibility for expanding and deepening our impact in states and districts for the course. You are a strategist and an expert facilitator of internal and external stakeholders. This role geographically supports New York and New Jersey, with the potential of other areas. 

In the role, you will:   

Expand and Improve Access (70%)  

• Build deep and meaningful relationships, influence others to action, and effectively handle multiple situations simultaneously.  

• Plan and conduct implementation meetings on site with key state and district stakeholders where appropriate. 

• Support the strong adoption, implementation and execution of the AP African American Studies course which includes administrator and teacher training and supports needed for a successful launch across a core set of states and districts.  

• Apply expert understanding of AP African American Studies to drive success and growth of the course and the Advanced Placement program. 

• Collaborate with USS core and state teams and Advanced Placement to jointly design, deliver, gather intel, and iterate implementation that solidify state priorities. 

Use systems and data (20%)  

• Independently conduct standard and complex data analysis to inform recommendations to stakeholders in strategic planning.  

• Utilize Salesforce CRM for account management, to monitor progress toward goals, to manage state/district account plans, and for proactive opportunity and task management.  

Manage Special Projects (10%)  

• Lead or manage divisional or regional projects as assigned by leadership.  

About You:  

You have:  

• Excellent collaboration and facilitation skills, along with the ability to manage a variety of internal and external relationships and resources to develop sustained partnerships.  

• Experience using customer relationship management systems like Salesforce. 

• Strong content knowledge and/or ability to learn the content deeply related to African American Studies. 

• 7-10+ years of directly related, progressively responsible work experience in a professional position in education at the district and/or state level, with a preferred emphasis on education reform, assessment, policy, and/or accountability  

• Experience driving strategy across constituents (K-12, higher ed) to produce effective partnerships, as well as a broad command of how relationships among accountability, assessment, curriculum & instruction, education policy, research, data analysis impact student outcomes.  

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including developing and leading presentations, and ability to analyze and succinctly summarize key data points to present key findings to constituents.  

• Excellent collaboration and facilitation skills, along with the ability to manage a variet