Executive Director, AP World Languages and Arts Department Head, Curriculum & Assessment

Executive Director, AP World Languages and Arts College Board - AP & Instruction 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 Type: This is a full-time position About the Team The AP Curriculum and Assessment Team at College Board (125+ staff) collaborates with colleagues across all aspects of the AP Program to develop, manage, and deliver AP's 43 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 teams comprised of educators and disciplinary 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 World Languages and Arts department which includes 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 26 people supporting 10 courses in the AP portfolio. About the position The Department Head owns the quality, validity, disciplinary alignment, and accuracy of every AP course and exam in their department, and makes the final call on assessment content, exam design, and scoring. They own the strategy for growing each subject, particularly initiatives that move more students from zero to one qualifying AP Exam score, and they own all public-facing activities for their subjects. The World Languages and Arts Department Head leads 26 people: 4 managers, 19 individual course experts, 2 staff who source stimuli, and 1 generalist who works across multiple subjects within the department, organized into 10 course teams. 4 of them report directly to the Department Head. The Department Head is accountable for the quality, accuracy, and efficiency of their team's work. As a member of the C&A Leadership team, the Executive Director advises the Vice President (VP) of AP Curriculum and Assessment and the AP&I Senior Vice President (SVP) on all initiatives related to the courses they lead. Their work reaches the VP and SVP decision-ready: a clear recommendation, the evidence and tradeoffs behind it, and the specific decision needed and by when. Additionally, each Department Head independently leads a cross-C&A workstream. The workstream is an enterprise-facing deliverable with a clear, stated outcome that other College Board teams and senior leaders rely on, and the Department Head is accountable for delivering it and for bringing what it learns to enterprise decisions. Workstreams support critical enterprise targets, for example zero-to-one mission metrics, test security, and assessment innovation with generative AI. The specific workstream is determined based on business needs, as well as the interests and strengths of each Department Head, and will likely shift over time as business needs evolve. Department Heads may have one additional FTE who reports directly to them and manages the daily work of the workstream. The Department Head's perspective matters both within and well beyond the department, and it comes from two roles. As the leader of their department, they know what will hold up for validity, fairness, and disciplinary rigor in their subjects. As the leader of a cross-C&A orkstream, they carr