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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 Production 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 stakeho