The AP (Advanced Placement) Program gives students the chance to tackle college-level work while they're still in high school—whether they're learning online or in the classroom. And through taking AP Exams, students can earn college credit and placement. Since its 2019 launch, AP Classroom, the support platform for AP teachers and students, has become the most popular LMS in US High Schools, annually serving 185,000+ teachers and 3.4M+ students at 17,000+ schools. During the academic year, students and teachers visit AP Classroom 700,000 times per day. It offers 40 courses (and growing!) with currently a question bank over 40,000 questions and 4,400 instructional videos. The data generated by AP Classroom has provided the AP Program with tremendous insight into how American students learn: what they know and can do, where they struggle, and what they need to succeed. Come join us in our mission to connect students to college success and opportunity.
About The Opportunity
As the Content Business Systems Analyst / Project Manager for AP Classroom, you will play a pivotal role in planning, coordinating, and analyzing the content management needs for all new and existing courses and their content-driven features. Teachers and students highly value and trust the instructional and assessment content within AP Classroom. You are an avid problem-solver and highly collaborative team member with a curiosity for technology. Partnering with product owners, digital content production leads, and instructional and assessment content teams, you’ll coordinate Agile product development and release planning throughout the product lifecycle, from inception through launch and ongoing production support. As a self-starter who swiftly puts plans into action, you thrive without needing detailed scripts. You’ll support project scope analysis and manage schedules and dependencies across teams. You will also actively support the platform’s content data analysis and configuration efforts.
In This Role, You Will
Project Management (40%)
Drive project management and support scope analysis for new course launches, course revisions, and annual course content updates
Collaborate with Product Owners and Internal stakeholders on course roadmap planning and prioritization
Manage content-team scrum ceremonies to support assessment and instructional course content updates
Create project dashboards, and visualizations to convey status, progress, and issues to internal content stakeholders and highlight critical paths /project plan dependencies
Content Support (40%)
Support troubleshooting content and metadata ingestion issues
Gather and analyze data for existing and new courses on AP Classroom (e.g., analyzing question metadata gaps or inconsistencies)
Create user-friendly Excel/Google Sheets reports to support metadata configuration / publishing needs, and leverage functionalities / processes to minimize manual efforts and errors
Contribute to content management process improvements, identifying more efficient ways to manage content from creation through availability to end users in AP Classroom
Business Analysis (20%)
Write clear and well-structured business requirements, stories, and supporting documents
Support Product Owners with user acceptance testing
Research content management enhancements and support for new resource types
About You
You have:
5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst including strong experience working with development teams in an Agile SDLC environment
Project Management experience preferred with the ability to create dashboards and project plans to keep projects on track
Detail-oriented and highly analytical nature with comfort digging into large data sets and managing a multitude of moving pieces
Strong Excel skills including experience with conditional formatting and reference functions (e.g., VLOOKUP, IF statements, Index match, etc.) and familiarity with generating SQL queries
Knowledge of common content and data interchange formats and standards (e.g., QTI, XML, JSON, MathML, LaTeX, etc.) and experience debugging issues
Experience managing delivery, QA, and integration of content assets on digital platform(s) is a plus
Excellent verbal and written communication skills including experience effectively interfacing with internal stakeholders, as well as developers
Authorization to work in the United States
About Our Process
Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled
While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone/video screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise and/or panel interview, and reference checks. This is an approximately 8-week process
About Our Benefits And Compensation
College Board offers a competitive benefits and compensation program that attracts top talent looking to make a difference in education. As a self-sustaining non-profit, we believe in compensating employees equitably in relation to each other, their qualifications, their impact, and the relevant market.
The hiring range for a new employee in this position is $80,000 to $135,000. College Board differentiates salaries by location so where you live will narrow the portion of this range in which you can expect a salary.
Your salary will be carefully determined based on your location, relevant experience, the external labor market, and the pay of College Board employees in similar roles. College Board strives to provide our best offer up front based on these criteria.
Your salary is only one part of all that College Board offers, including but not limited to:
A comprehensive package designed to support the well-being of employees and their families and promote education. Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, pet insurance, tuition assistance, retirement benefits, and more
Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses, salary growth over time through market increases, and opportunities for merit raises and promotions based on increased scope of responsibility
A job that matters, a team that cares, and a place to learn, innovate and thrive
You can expect to have transparent conversations about benefits and compensation with our recruiters throughout your application process.
About College Board
We are a mission-focused, not-for-profit membership organization promoting innovation, equity, and excellence for all students. Our members include more than 6,000 of the world’s leading educational institutions. We have 1,600 employees in 13 offices across the continental U.S. and Puerto Rico.
We are advocates for children and parents, we empower teachers and educators, and we're a strong presence in thousands of schools and communities across the country through our programs and services—the SAT®, Advanced Placement® (AP®), and Pre-AP® are just a few. Our work falls broadly into four categories: College Readiness, College Connection & Success, Student Opportunities, and Advocacy.
Benefits
We offer our employees an outstanding benefits package that includes four weeks of paid time off, a generous retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and ongoing professional development and training.
Mission
Clearing a path for all students to own their future.
EEOC statement
College Board is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology
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