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please see: https://idahoworks.gov/jobs/2199334 About the Team
The AP Curriculum and Assessment (AP C&A) Team at College Board (50+
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.
About the Opportunity
As the Senior Project Manager, AP Assessment Systems and Content
Management, you are the primary person managing the specifications,
metadata, and content systems for the curriculum and assessment team for
all 40 AP exams. In addition, you will provide project management
support for AP item content and test form development by external
vendors, as well as digital package User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for
all AP digital exams. In support of this endeavor, you will strategize
with the Executive Director of Assessment to manage the specifications
for all AP forms, as well as the ecosystem of AP test and form metadata
in the relevant platforms. You will work with internal and external
stakeholders, including external vendors, to ensure the smooth and
effective flow of AP assessment metadata and assessment deliverables
across systems (and vendors, as applicable). In addition, you will be
responsible for planning and creating schedules, managing projects, and
tracking progress through the use of the latest business tools,
including dashboards and databases, as well as written documentation and
guides. These responsibilities would include, but are not limited to:
In this role, you will:
AP Specifications, Metadata, and Content Systems (70%)
- Manage specifications for all AP forms and form assembly, including
maintaining gold source documentation, and provisioning
specification updates to the relevant systems and stakeholders,
including Hummingbird, AP Psychometrics, Assessment Production, AP
Classroom, AP Delivery and external vendors.
- Maintain AP curriculum framework (content outline), subject
specific, and flat field metadata in the course framework management
system (Satchel), ensuring the content accuracy and technical
fidelity of updates, and provisioning metadata schemes and updates
to the relevant AP applications and systems, including Hummingbird,
AP Classroom, AP Psychometrics, Assessment Production, and external
vendors, as well as downstream systems.
- Maintain AP score models for exam form objective, essay, and
composite scoring and metadata in support of AP Instructional
Planning Report, and provisioning specification updates to the
relevant systems and stakeholders, including Hummingbird, AP
Psychometrics, Assessment Production, AP Classroom, and external
vendors.
- Coordinate with the AP Course and Exam Change Management director to
align specification updates for AP forms with course revisions,
updates, and rubric changes across all subjects.
- Coordinate with assessment and curriculum leads to guide and ensure
that all specification and metadata updates are developed, reviewed,
and delivered in accordance with principles and best practices in
assessment and in support of quality, reliability, validity, and
fairness of AP exams.
- Serve as an AP C&A specifications and metadata point of contact on
the internal Satchel team.
- Provide support for annual updates and maintenance of AP
Instructional Planning Report data and coordinating with relevant
systems and stakeholders to implement updates.
- Collaborate with the ED of Assessment, Psychometrics, and Assessment
Produc ion to provision validations for test specifications for AP
exams, as they relate to the metadata and test specifications.
- Strategize with the ED of Assessment to document and find
innovations in making accessible the AP assessment specifications,
data, and content ecosystem information to all relevant
stakeholders.
AP Assessment Project Management and Process (30%)
Collaborate with external vendors producing AP item and test form
content to provision project schedules and deadlines.
Communicate project schedules and deadlines with internal teams;
troubleshoot and collaborate with both internal teams and external
vendors to resolve any conflicts or roadblocks with schedules and
deliveries of test content.
In collaboration with AP C&A, AP Assessment Production, and AP Digital
Transformation, provision schedules and support for test form content
and digital package UAT.
Document changes to AP metadata and taxonomies in all relevant gold
source applications or repositories.
In collaboration with the ED of Assessment, Assessment Production, and
external vendors, establish annual set-up and configurations for AP
subjects in item authoring and test form assembly and management system.
Serve as the primary AP C&A point of contact for the assessment input
and annual set-up in the scoring systems and applications, including the
systems of external vendors.
In collaboration with the ED of Ass