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This job was posted by https://joblink.maine.gov : For more information, please see: https://joblink.maine.gov/jobs/1070379 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).

Type:This is a full-time position

About the Team

The Advanced Placement Curriculum and Assessment team supports College Board in serving more than seven million students a year as they prepare for a successful transition to college through programs and services in college readiness and college success - specifically through the Advanced Placement (AP) Program. With more than 30 courses in a variety of subject areas, we are committed to promoting innovation, equity, and excellence for generations of students. Within the Advanced Placement and Curriculum Assessment pillar, our team focuses primarily on the development and growth of existing AP History and Social Science courses and the launch of new courses within the subjects.

About the Opportunity

As the Director of AP Comparative Government and Politics, you will be responsible for preserving and improving the quality and validity of the AP Program\'s core deliverables within the subject domain: the course curriculum, the exam, and the professional development content. You will serve as the primary point of contact in AP for committees and communities of subject-matter experts and will be responsible for the curriculum, instruction, and assessment for AP Comparative Government and Politics, as well as the strategic growth of AP Comparative Government and Politics across the globe. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to present, speak, and moderate dialogue with academic and membership audiences to ensure that ongoing change and improvement within AP courses and exams is understood, accepted, and supported in secondary and post-secondary educational communities.

In this role you will:

Curriculum and Instruction (40%)

• Collaborate with the AP Instructional Products team to develop new products 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
• Provide curriculum and assessment development protocol training, translate between academics and technical experts (test developers and psychometricians), and collaborate to develop curricular and instructional materials and resources to support AP Comparative Government and Politics teachers worldwide
• Recruit, train, and directly supervise Committee members in designated subject areas as content development contributors. Liaise with key internal stakeholders (AP Publications, AP Project Management, and AP Professional Development staff) to execute project plans
• Contribute to current research and best practices related to curriculum development, instructional pedagogies, and assessment; participate in regular discussions with other Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment members on the current professional literature to build a set of common, shared beliefs about AP\'s direction within the larger educational community

Assessment (50%)

• Develop, review, and approve AP Comparative Government and Politics Exam content in collaboration with AP Assessment staff and ETS test development staff, ensuring the exam development aligns with approved curricula and test specifications
• Make recommendations for AP Comparative Government and Politics exam design improvements in collaboration with and aligned to other College Board initiatives
• Monitor and improve exam validity and reader reliability in accordance with established AP program thresholds
• Conduct multiple face-to-face, weeke d meetings and virtual meetings annually with each of the committees within the Director\'s stewardship as well as other committee meetings in the discipline as needed

Strategic Growth (10%)

Manage existing AP Development Committee recruitment and membership; direct the overarching AP outreach strategy for the AP Comparative Government and Politics course

Represent and increase support for the AP Program\'s mission among external stakeholders in AP Comparative Government and Politics through a variety of strategies, including growth across all Comparative Government and Politics programs and initiatives

Recommend strategies and approaches that will help the program effectively scale to support and encourage high usage across urban, suburban and rural districts geographically distributed. Support translating the existing PL model to effectively address the needs of AP teachers in that discipline

Work with the AP Higher Education team to co-develop and implement plans to raise college and university awareness of AP courses and exams in the subject area

Assist efforts to recruit college faculty and experienced AP teachers to serve as AP Readers; co-lead the planning and execution of discipline-specific AP Faculty Colloquia events

Collaborate with pre-AP staff to develop a pipeline of