Senior Director, AP Access
College Board – Advanced Placement and Instruction
Location: Remote
Type: Full-time

About the Team

The AP Access and Implementation team focuses on expanding the benefits of AP to all high school students who enter 4-year and 2-year colleges, specifically to students who haven’t received the foundation AP provides for college success. AP has a demonstrated and trusted impact on on-time college graduation rates, even after controlling for other predictors, and has shown to improve college graduation rates as students take additional AP courses and exams. And yet, not all students have access to AP. In this role, you will be relied upon to lead a range of high-value strategic initiatives that focus on maximizing the reach of the AP Program. The team’s goal is to serve a broader range of high school students on AP courses and credit opportunities that best accelerate them to and through college.

About the Opportunity

As Senior Director, AP Access, you’re charged with developing evidence-based, actionable, and strategic approaches to support school, district, and state adoption of AP, specifically AP Cybersecurity and AP Networking, and you’re responsible for delivering on those adoption approaches with the staff training and project management needed to execute them successfully.

You’ll thrive when supporting multiple regional teams in a coaching role, and can learn, adapt, respond quickly, and innovate. You possess a deep understanding of how schools work, along with experience and intuition for guiding adult learning. You have an exceptional ability to apply and interpret data to guide decisions. As you will support multiple regional teams responsible for expanding access to AP in schools, you ideally possess a deep commitment to students.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and implement a sales model for leveraging instructional expertise and resources that supports the teams responsible for implementing AP in schools, districts, and states

• Design and delivery high-quality staff training, both synchronously and asynchronously, along with a portfolio of supporting learning materials

• Develop and implement an assessment strategy to ensure staff trainings meet the needs of regional teams and that each team member is able to work at peak performance

• Develop and use a set of learnings from the ongoing equity initiatives, specifically the access initiatives designed to increase the number of sections that serve AP students

• Evaluate and transform school and state feasibility data and learnings into actionable strategic knowledge using superb analytical acumen, critical thinking, and communication skills

• Develop and implement a strategy that successfully drives the equitable expansion of AP, such that schools increase student access and diversity by adopting additional course sections to fulfill existing AP potential

• Build operational systems across teams to track progress towards goals and support field teams in their outreach

• Partner with diverse executives and managers within AP to support, facilitate, and develop business and course-specific strategies

• Represent AP as the key point of contact for internal field teams

About You

You have:

• 10+ years of professional experience in a school or district, including relevant experience with efforts to expand access in your school’s or district’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) or Advanced Placement (AP) programs, especially in Computer Science education

• Graduate degree in education or leadership

• Hold professional state issued license as a high school teacher

• Strongly preferred: Experience as a CTE teacher or AP teacher

• A successful record of accomplishment leading multiple diverse projects with responsibility for balancing competing demands for project scope, time, cost, risk, and quality within a limited pool of resources

• A strong background in teaching and learning, and experience coaching CTE or AP teachers

• Exceptional communication, public presentation, and advocacy skills

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with a wide range of senior constituents

• Demonstrated ability to apply an analytical, data-driven approach to decision-making

You are:

• Strongly committed to expanding educational opportunities

• A problem solver with excellent judgment who views challenges from multiple perspectives

• Clear, compelling, and persuasive in your communications

• Highly detail oriented and thorough

• Able to see the big picture through the details and to accommodate different points of view

• Able to tailor your communication to different audiences and across formats

• A self-starter that thrives in fast-paced environments

• Highly adaptable to new information, situations, or challenges

• Creative and can produce fresh approaches to tough problems

• Able to travel regularly for work (25-35%)

• Authorized to work in the United States

About Our Process

• Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled

• While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise and panel interview, and reference checks. This is an approximately 8-week process

About Our Benefits and Compensation

College Board offers a competitive benefits and compensation program that attracts top talent looking to make a difference in education. As a self-sustaining non-profit, we believe in compensating employees equitably in relation to each other, their qualifications, their impact, and the relevant market.

The hiring range for a new employee in this position is $112,000 to $165,000.

College Board differentiates salaries by location so where you live will narrow the portion of this range in which you can expect a salary.

Your salary will be carefully determined based on your location, relevant experience, the external labor market, and the pay of College Board employees in similar roles. College Board strives to provide our best offer up front based on this criteria.

Your salary is only one part of all that College Board offers, including but not limited to:

• A comprehensive package designed to support the well-being of employees and their families and promote education. Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, pet insurance, tuition assistance, retirement benefits, and more

• Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses, salary growth over time through market increases, and opportunities for merit raises and promotions based on increased scope of responsibility

• A job that matters, a team that cares, and a place to learn, innovate and thrive

You can expect to have transparent conversations about benefits and compensation with our recruiters throughout your application process.