Vice President, Assessment Design & Development
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College BoardEducational assessment
Source API remote eligibility restrictions: United StatesFull-TimeVp
Salary231,000 - 315,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience
- Required Skills
- Cross-functional Team Leadership
Requirements
- Bring expertise in large-scale assessment design and development, psychometrics, and/or the future of work and assessments.
- Have 10+ years of progressive leadership experience, including experience operating at the senior executive level.
- Bring an evidence-based perspective on the future of K-12 assessment, the skills students will need, and how AI is reshaping assessment.
- Understand assessment validity, fairness, accessibility, and reliability, and have working facility with major psychometric approaches such as item response theory, classical test theory, or structural equation modeling.
- Have led assessment or content development organizations through significant transformation, including scaling operations or introducing new capabilities.
- Have experience sustaining zero-error, high-volume, deadline-driven assessment operations, including during test security or production pressure.
- Have conceived new assessment designs, item types, or measurement approaches and shepherded them from idea to operational reality.
- Have represented a public-facing perspective on assessment design, measurement, or the future of skills through publications, conference keynotes, or industry panels.
- Have built and led senior management teams, including hiring, developing, and holding leaders accountable through layers.
- Demonstrate inclusive people leadership, strategic prioritization, performance management, evidence-based feedback, and coaching.
- Have executive presence and a track record of cross-functional influence with C-suite and senior leaders across program, technology, product, and research functions.
- Be able to travel up to 25% of the year to College Board offices or on College Board business.
Responsibilities
- Set and resource the vision for AD&D’s expanded mandate, and hold the department accountable to results.
- Sustain accessible, zero-error, on-time delivery across the SAT Suite of Assessments, AP, and ACCUPLACER.
- Define strategic direction to accelerate assessment content production across the enterprise.
- Lead strategy for new assessments and item formats in partnership with program teams, Psychometrics, Technology, and Digital Product.
- Communicate assessment design and development strategy, progress, and trade-offs to senior stakeholders.
- Build and lead the Executive Director team responsible for executing AD&D priorities and managing 70+ staff.
- Set team priorities, track progress, and coach and support team members.
- Represent College Board’s perspective on assessment at industry conferences, in publications, and within the broader assessment community.
- Shape decisions about the skills and constructs to assess and direct the team’s work to develop them.
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