Vice President, New Course Design and Development

Vice President, New Course Design and Development, Advanced Placement Program 

College Board - AP and Instruction 

Location: This is a remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes. 

Role Type:  This is a full-time position 

About the Team  

The College Board’s Advanced Placement and Instruction division (300+ staff) develops and administers coursework taken by more than 3 million students worldwide each school year, and the related subject-matter exams utilized by more than 4,000 colleges and universities for course placement and awarding of college credit. These include credit and placement examination programs like CLEP and ACCUplacer; Advanced Placement (AP) and Pre-AP courses in 40+ disciplines; and associated teacher professional learning programs.     

The Advanced Placement Program is the largest offering in the division’s portfolio, and currently has five departments: Curriculum and Assessment, which manages the ongoing development and evolution of AP’s courses and exams within the Arts, English, History, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and World Languages; Production and Delivery, which manages the annual cycle of transactions with schools – from student registration and exam production to exam administration, scoring, and score reporting; Access, which focuses on expanding availability of AP and Pre-AP courses, participation among traditionally underserved students, and supporting teachers; Strategy, which measures and evaluates the program’s components and leads the development and implementation of strategic initiatives, and New Course Design and Development, which leads the development, launch, and refinement of new AP courses designed to reach students not currently engaged with AP. 

About the Opportunity   

The Vice President of New Course Design and Development will establish vision and methods for the design, development, and launch of new AP courses intended to extend AP coursework to students not currently engaged by AP’s offerings. Accordingly, this Vice President will develop new AP courses and exams in fields of especial post-secondary relevance for a broader group of high school students than currently participate in AP, designing these courses in ways that maximize relevance, student engagement, and career connections while maintaining alignment with standards for awarding of “advanced placement” and college credit by Higher Ed institutions.  

As part of this effort, the Vice President will identify, validate, and incorporate innovative assessment models and item types (e.g., simulations, project portfolios) that effectively measure career-essential knowledge and skills that are the focus of these courses. Following the development and launch of these new AP courses and exams, the Vice President will partner with the researchers to evaluate and refine the design of these courses and exams, and will instantiate processes for efficient, streamlined semi-annual course and exam updates in rapidly changing technology and career fields.