Director, AP Engineering
College Board — New Course Design
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: This is a full-time, term position that will last one year from the start date . This role has the potential to convert to a full-time, permanent position, depending on the course’s final approval for release, business need, and individual performance.
Preferred Application Deadline: Friday, November 13th. Please keep in mind that College Board offices will be closed November 26th – November 27th and December 25th – January 1st so it is better to apply sooner than later. We are targeting a January start date.
About the Team
The New Course Design (NCD) department leads the research, design, development, and launch of new courses and their associated exams, instructional resources, and teacher professional learning programs, ensuring consistency across these inter-related AP Program components and that they are engaging, feasible, and grounded in evidence. After launching a new course, the NCD department focuses on continuous improvement of new courses, exams, instructional interventions, and teacher professional learning programs. NCD partners closely with the Learning and Assessment division to design and validate new item types for use in new, career-focused AP exams, and then integrates with AP Program Enablement to produce the annual exam versions within the Bluebook digital testing platform (copyright, editorial, layout, design), and to develop annual rubrics and training materials necessary to conduct the annual AP Reading of student responses.
About the Opportunity
This is a one-year term role. Your work will be split between two streams: building the course's framework in partnership with the AP Engineering Advisory Committee and the Senior Director, Instructional Design and developing assessment items aligned to that framework in partnership with the Senior Director, Assessment Design. The time spent on each aspect of the role will shift as the course moves through the design process.
If AP Engineering receives final approval for release, this role has the potential to convert to a full-time employee Director position with expanded, ongoing responsibility for the course's curriculum, assessment development, and annual AP Reading.
In this role, you will:
Course Framework and Advisory Committee Development (50-60%)
Serve as the content lead for AP Engineering, with primary responsibility for drafting the course framework, skill progressions, and learning objectives.
Partner with the Senior Director, Instructional Design and Director, Project Management to manage the AP Engineering Advisory Committee including industry practitioners, college faculty, and secondary school teachers by setting milestones, tracking deliverables, and driving the framework development process to on-time completion.
Facilitate meetings — in person and virtual, which may fall during the work week, evenings, or weekends — with the Advisory Committee to review and refine framework drafts.
Resolve conflicting Advisory Committee and field-test feedback with a documented recommendation to SD/ED.
Conduct outreach to teachers and organizations to engage them in feedback opportunities.
Assessment Item Development (30-40%)
In partnership with the Senior Director, Assessment, manage the development timeline for assessment items and early scoring materials for AP Engineering, ensuring alignment to the course framework as it's built — including sequencing stimulus selection, drafting rubrics, and tracking deliverables against framework milestones.
Author and revise item content in coordination with the Senior Director, Assessment, ensuring items reflect both the emerging framework and AP's assessment quality standards.
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