Director, AP French Language and Culture

About the role

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® 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. 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. As the Director I, AP French Language and Culture you will be responsible for preserving and improving the quality and validity of the AP Program's core deliverables within the subject domain: the exam, the course curriculum, and the professional development content. 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. You will ethically and effectively integrate AI technologies in assessment creation and review. This includes judiciously using AI assisted tools to support fairness, validity, and innovation in AP assessments. You will train SMEs on assessment development protocols, translate between academics and technical experts (psychometricians), and collaborate to develop formative assessment materials and resources to support AP French Language and Culture teachers worldwide. You will serve as a point of contact in AP for committees and communities of subject-matter experts and will be responsible for the curriculum and assessment for AP French Language and Culture, and, in partnership with other AP teams, further the strategic growth of AP French Language and Culture across the globe. In this role, you will: Assessment Development and Scoring (45-75%) Serve as an assessment leader for AP French Language and Culture, with primary responsibility for assessment development for AP French Language and Culture. 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 and management of assessment content (formative and summative) and scoring materials for AP French Language and Culture through iterative review stages with multiple internal and external stakeholders, including the AP French Language and Culture Team, Assessment Production team, Test Development Committee, and the Chief Reader, as appropriate. 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. 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. Train and directly supervise Test Development Committee members in AP French Language and Culture as content development contributors and reviewers . 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. Assessment Quality and Process (10-25%) Contribute to learning and best practices related to assessment by participating in regular discussions with other AP Curriculum & Assessment s