Senior Fellow, Postsecondary Workforce Pathways

Senior Fellow, Postsecondary Workforce Pathways 

College Board - HMA 

Location: This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).  

Role Type:  

• This is a full-time term position that will last for 3 years from the start date.  

About the Opportunity 

College Board’s Higher Education, Membership, and Access (HMA) division ensures access to college and career opportunities for students through its Members. In addition to opening the door to educational opportunity, it’s about ensuring students have direct, supported pathways into college and meaningful careers through rigorous and relevant coursework. As the Senior Fellow, Postsecondary Workforce Pathways, you will serve as the key strategic partner to the Senior Vice President of HMA in developing and executing this agenda across the division and organization. Your work will initially focus on career course–based pathways, beginning with AP Business with Personal Finance and AP Cybersecurity. These courses enable students to earn college credit, develop industry-relevant skills and credentials, and access career opportunities that enhance long-term economic mobility while helping to reduce the wealth gap. You will collaborate closely with the SVP, colleagues across HMA, and the organization to shape, communicate, and advance initiatives that remove barriers, expand delivery capacity, increase abundance, and ensure all students, especially those traditionally underserved, can benefit from AP career course-relevant opportunities. This includes building institutional, employer, and civic partnerships that recognize and empower these courses in ways that go beyond credit. 

In this role, you will: 

Strategy (50 %) 

• Assess and inform a strategy for holistically defining our agenda, ensuring it reflects organizational priorities and aspirations. 

• Influence relevant stakeholders and partners to shape how students can access and benefit from AP Career relevant coursework in ways that extend beyond traditional credit recognition. 

• Develop, advise on, and act on the expansion of key partnerships with higher education systems, employers, the military, and civic organizations to address instructional capacity challenges and broaden course availability. 

• Support innovation by identifying, testing, and scaling new models, such as joint ventures between universities and trusted institutions (ie, military branches, statewide workforce agencies, major employers) that carry public trust and mission alignment. 

• Support and further refine the work of divisional partners to create differentiated value maps for AP Business for Personal Finance and AP Cybersecurity by institutional type, with specific attention to regional public and community colleges, clarifying the intended uses and benefits for each segment. 

Partnership Development and Stakeholder Engagement, (30%) 

• Build alliances with: 

• State and system leaders, governors, and agency heads in partnership with GPER. 

• Community-based and civic organizations that support equitable