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College Board

Director, AP French Language and Culture

Remote - USA · Director · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$45k-$75kDetected 30 days ago
Project ManagementCustomer SupportLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationPublic SpeakingAdaptabilityMicrosoft Office

About the role

  • AP® is a rigorous academic program built on the commitment, passion, and hard work of students and educators from secondary schools and higher education.
  • AP provides willing and academically prepared high school students with the opportunity to study and learn at the college level.
  • You are also responsible for item development and management from authoring to administration; training and collaborating with subject-matter experts (SMEs), typically college professors and secondary school teachers.

Responsibilities

  • In partnership with and with support from your manager, lead processes for authoring and revising assessment content, including training educator constituents to author assessment content, (including selection of appropriate stimulus material, and application of best assessment practices).
  • In partnership with and with support from your manager, lead the development of assessment forms for AP French Language and Culture, ensuring the AP Exam development aligns with approved curricula and test specifications.
  • Support assessment workstreams within the AP English, World Languages, and Arts.
  • Contribute to initiatives to refine and improve question task models as well as exam design in collaboration with AP Curriculum & Assessment leaders and aligned to other College Board initiatives to achieve psychometric and disciplinary best practices on AP French Language and Culture exams.
  • Collaborate with psychometrics and AP Curriculum & Assessment staff to establish fair, reliable, and valid cut scores for AP French Language and Culture exam.
  • Collaborate with the AP teams dedicated to instructional design and product development to develop new products for AP French Language and Culture designed to address unmet teacher instructional needs, including developing prototypes, participating in small-scale market-testing, and creating models for subsequent development in conjunction with other AP workstreams.
  • Facilitate (with support from your manager and/or other team members) multiple face-to-face, weekend meetings, and virtual meetings (during work week, evenings, or weekends) annually with the AP French Language and Culture Test Development Committee.
  • At College Board, we offer more than just a paycheck-we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive.

Requirements

  • A Master's degree in French Language or a directly related discipline, and knowledge of current trends in the discipline
  • Experience in standardized assessment development
  • Excellent organizational and planning skills, including the ability to effectively handle multiple tasks simultaneously
  • Meticulous attention to detail, including the ability to closely proofread
  • proficiency with Microsoft Office, use of browser-based applications and tools

Nice to have

  • Doctorate degree in French Language or a directly related discipline
  • Experience with digital assessment
  • Teaching experience
  • Fluency in another language, including, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese
  • Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.
  • This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
  • The hiring range for this role is $96,000 - $135,000
  • We aim to make our best offer upfront-rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data.

Skills

  • the exam, the course curriculum, and the professional development content.

Compensation

  • Facilitate (with support from your manager and/or other team members) the successful scoring of student responses for AP French Language and Culture Exams at the annual scoring event in person and online-the "AP Reading"-and produce AP Reading publications materials for teacher and student use.

Benefits

  • You'll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it's like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process.

Company info

  • The AP Curriculum and Assessment Team at College Board (90+ staff) collaborates with colleagues across all aspects of the AP Program to develop, manage, and deliver AP's 40+ courses in a wide variety of subject areas.
  • AP's course experts ensure that course curricula are aligned to higher education expectations and reflect the state of the art in the discipline, contribute to instructional resources and tools for teachers, and develop assessments that allow students in these courses to demonstrate their mastery of course content and skills.
  • AP leads in strategic use of AI to expand student access, strengthen instructional design and professional support, and enhance assessment creation and exam analysis.
  • The English, World Languages, and Arts department, which includes English Literature, English Language, Spanish Language, Italian Language, French Language, German Language, Chinese Language, Japanese Language, Latin, Music Theory, Spanish Literature, and Art and Design is currently made up of 28 people supporting 14 courses in the AP portfolio.
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