Director, Project Management, AP Curriculum and Assessment
About the role
The AP Curriculum and Assessment, Director, Project Management at College Board leads end-to-end project management for course and exam revisions and updates, ensuring rigorous execution, clear alignment, and on-time delivery of all milestones and deliverables. This role operates with primary accountability for execution, integration, and operational excellence across a complex and large portfolio of work.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of course and exam revisions and updates across the full lifecycle
- Build and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, and milestones
- Track progress, monitor dependencies, and proactively manage risks, issues, and changes
- Ensure all deliverables are completed on time, within scope, and at a high quality bar
- Report on project health, key risks, and mitigation plans to stakeholders and leadership
- Identify and recommend tradeoffs across scope, timeline, and resources to ensure successful delivery
- Explore and integrate approved Generative AI tools into project management workflows to improve efficiency, scalability, and consistency across C&A operational processes
- Own and continuously improve the course and exam changes roadmap and standard setting roadmap
- Develop, refine, and maintain process documentation and templates specific to course and exam changes
- Standardize workflows to increase clarity, consistency, and efficiency across C&A workstreams
- Design and improve tracking systems, dashboards, and documentation to support execution and visibility
- Coordinate cross-functional integration and special projects
Requirements
- Expertise in managing complex projects with at least five (5) years of project management experience required, preferably in the higher education industry
- Superior technical skills/expertise in Smartsheet and full suite of Microsoft office applications (especially Excel and Powerpoint)
- Strong analytical thinking skills and a data-driven approach to decision-making and prioritization, with the ability to forecast and measure using appropriate metrics
- Ability to oversee multiple workstreams with dependencies while keeping projects and budgets on track
- Experience partnering on contracts and budget management for complex projects
- Ability to identify risks early with a creative approach to problem-solving
- Proven ability to build relationships and influence others to action
- Ability to lead meetings effectively with a broad range of internal and external constituents
- Superior presentation and written communications skills
- Ability to manage the entire process/product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities
- Strong customer service orientation
- A Bachelors degree
- The ability to travel 3-6 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business
Qualifications
- A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions and comfort with learning and applying new digital tools independently and proactively
- Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal
- A learner's mindset and a commitment to growth: welcoming diverse perspectives, giving and receiving timely, respectful feedback, and continuously improving through iterative learning and user input
- A drive for impact and excellence: solving complex problems, making data-informed decisions, prioritizing what matters most, and continuously improving through learning, user input, and external benchmarking
- A collaborative and empathetic approach: working across differences, fostering trust, and contributing to a culture of shared success
Skills
- Expertise in managing complex projects with at least five (5) years of project management experience required, preferably in the higher education industry
- Superior technical skills/expertise in Smartsheet and full suite of Microsoft office applications (especially Excel and Powerpoint)
- Strong analytical thinking skills and a data-driven approach to decision-making and prioritization, with the ability to forecast and measure using appropriate metrics
- Ability to oversee multiple workstreams with dependencies while keeping projects and budgets on track
- Experience partnering on contracts and budget management for complex projects
- Ability to identify risks early with a creative approach to problem-solving
- Proven ability to build relationships and influence others to action
- Ability to lead meetings effectively with a broad range of internal and external constituents
- Superior presentation and written communications skills
- Ability to manage the entire process/product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities
- Strong customer service orientation
- A Bachelors degree
- The ability to travel 3-6 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business
Benefits
At College Board, we offer a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. We’re a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market. A Thoughtful Approach To Compensation The hiring range for this role is $80,000–$130,000. Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar roles at the College Board. We aim to make our best offer upfront, rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data. We adjust salaries by location to ensure fairness, no matter where you live.
Pay
$80,000–$130,000 per year
Schedule
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.