Curricular Analyst, AP Instructional Design

Curricular Analyst, AP Instructional Design 

College Board – AP&I 

Location: This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).  

Type: This is a full-time position 

About the Team  

The College Board’s Advanced Placement and Instruction division (260 staff) develops and administers coursework taken by more than 3 million students worldwide each school year, and the related subject-matter exams utilized by more than 4,000 colleges and universities for course placement and awarding of college credit. These include credit and placement examination programs like CLEP and ACCUplacer; Advanced Placement (AP) and Pre-AP courses in 40+ disciplines; and associated teacher professional learning programs. 

The Advanced Placement Program is the largest offering in the division’s portfolio, and has six departments: Curriculum and Assessment, which develops the course frameworks, designs the exams, and guides the grading and scoring process; Delivery, which manages the annual cycle of transactions with schools – from student registration to exam administration, scoring, and score reporting; Access, which focuses on expanding availability of AP and Pre-AP courses, participation among traditionally underserved students, and supporting teachers; Strategy, which measures and evaluates the program’s components, identifies and evaluates program opportunities and threats, and leads the development and implementation of strategic initiatives; Digital, which leads product development of the Bluebook digital assessment platform, manages the implementation of digital testing for AP Exams, and provides instructional resources via AP Classroom; and Instructional Design, a new department charged with developing and implementing a curricular research and instructional design phase to proceed all major content development projects, including: any possible new AP course; any significant revision to existing AP courses; major changes to student assessments, such as replacing part of the summative exam with through-course tasks or projects; and new teacher resources. 

About the Opportunity   

This Curricular Analyst will support the curricular research and design phases for a portfolio of projects within the department. To this end, the Curricular Analyst will work closely with senior leaders, cross-functional teams, and subject matter experts to ensure that the analysis is comprehensive and informs the development of precise project requirements and product roadmaps. 

As a Curricular Analyst within the AP Instructional Design department, you will play a vital role in the curricular research phase of new content development, ensuring that instructional design decisions are grounded in comprehensive, high-quality analysis. Your work …