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please see: https://idahoworks.gov/jobs/2195333 About the Team
The AP Curriculum and Assessment (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 Curriculum and Assessment, you are
responsible for overseeing all project management for course and exam
revisions and updates from beginning to end. You are responsible for the
maintenance and improvement of all course and exam revision and updates
roadmap documents, timelines, and process templates and documentation.
As Senior Project Manager, you are responsible for creation of project
plans in SmartSheet, monitoring each step of the plan, reporting on the
health of the project, and ensuring the project meets its deadlines with
all appropriate deliverables completed. You will also act as the C&A
project liaison for projects that C&A staff work on with other
departments within AP, such as project additions, project-based
learning, research studies, etc.
Additionally, you are responsible for the creation of a library of
process documentation and templates to support all operational and
project-based work for the full Curriculum and Assessment team. This
process documentation must be clear and designed to align and streamline
the work done within the department. Part of this library will include
the creation and maintenance of file structures within SharePoint as
well as the revamping of SmartSheet dashboards to be full-team as well
as course-specific and contain all necessary visualizations and links to
process documents as well as commonly accessed links. You are
responsible for oversight and improvement of the existing SuperCalendar
(a SmartSheet calendar system designed to unify all tasks and deadlines
within a single individualized and personalized calendar) to ensure it
is meeting the needs of all C&A staff, inclusive of work done with other
departments within AP.
Finally, you are responsible for managing the roadmap and data sourcing
for standard setting and acting as the liaison with Psychometrics. You
will also support the oversight of the multi-million dollar AP
Curriculum and Assessment Operations budget as well as provide
cross-team support for all cyclical operational work and special
projects that may arise involving C&A staff.
In this role, you will:
AP Course and Exam Updates and Revisions (50%)
- Maintain the course and exam revisions and updates timelines,
refining them when necessary based on research and experience, and
developing additional documents related to process and timeline for
course and exam revisions and updates.
- Create a project plan and serve as Project Manager for all course
and exam revisions and updates, from initiation/kick-off of course
framework development to implementation of revised/updated course
and exam, including collaboration with departments such as
publications, instruction, course audit, and AP Classroom.
- Serve as C&A project liaison when needed for projects C&A staff are
involved in cross-departmentally, such as project additions,
project-based learning, research studies, and other projects as
designated.
- Oversee and manage the standard setting roadmap and all related data
sources and artifacts that serve as inputs to standard setting
decisions and processes, including liaising with Psychometrics.
Process Development, Structure, and Organization 40%)
- Maintain, augment, and improve the existing \"SuperCalendar\"
structure within SmartSheet, including coordination with other
departments to incorporate those workstreams.
- Conduct on-going research, inclusive of surveys and focus groups, to
understand and define the needs of the C&A Team with regard to
process documentation, process library, file structure/management,
and dashboards.
- Document the input and feedback gained from the research and utilize
it to continuously improve on the structures and processes created
to further improve and refine them in alignment with organizational
and team goals.
- Create well-developed process templates and documents for common
projects for C&A staff, including timelines, document templates, and
SmartSheet timelines and dashboards.
- Develop and maintain a file structure/management schema within
Sharepoint and SmartSheet that is well-documented and clearly
understood by all team members.
- Refine and revamp the existing C&A dashboards on SmartSheet to make
them a single stop for all C&A team members to find what they need
to do their work in the most efficient way possible, including
course-specific information, SuperCalendar, process documentation,
commonly accessed links, and anything else identified within the
research as needed by the team.
AP Operations and B