TheCollegeBoard Hiring for Senior Director, California Higher Education Strategic Initiatives – REQ001177_43245530923_15-3175 at Topeka, Kansas Full Time

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Senior Director, California Higher Education Strategic Initiatives

College Board –

Governance, Membership, and Global Higher Education

Remote – California

About the Team

This role is within the Strategic Higher Education team but will be
working very closely with the Western Region State and District
Partnership team.The Strategic Higher Education unit and the Western
Region are dynamic, high-energy teams focused on expanding opportunities
for students by partnering with educators across K-12 and Higher
Education.

The Strategic Higher Ed team works with higher education institutions,
states, and state systems of higher education to advance College Board
programs and goals. The team provides leadership across the organization
on higher education strategy and holds primary relationships with
enrollment and admission leaders across the country.

The Western Region team partners with educators in state departments of
education, school districts, schools and educational organizations in
Colorado and westward to expand opportunities for students to own their
futures through College Board programs including assessments (AP, PSAT,
& SAT), BigFuture, and College Board Search.

About the Opportunity

As the Senior Director, you are responsible for developing,
coordinating, and influencing higher education public policies across
California that improve the student educational pipeline and outcomes,
with an immediate focus on enabling the growth and acceptance of
Advanced Placement access courses. You will do this by bringing,
building and maintaining strong and mutually beneficial relationships
with the major public higher education institutions in California (e.g.
the University of California and the California State University systems
as well as the Community College Network, and other state level Higher
Ed associations).

You are the College Board “expert” on California-specific higher
education trends, policies, and the specific needs of these major higher
education systems. You are invested in and passionate about developing
close working relationships with the university central offices,
individual university campuses, and key university governance
committees. You are solutions-oriented and will work closely with
College Board’s Western Regional leadership, Higher Education
leadership, and account managers as well as with College Board senior
leadership across the organization.

In this role, you will:

Relationship Management (50%)

• Manage California public system and institutional relationships to
  advance their understanding of the value of College Board’s
  products and services.

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– Build strong relationships with central office and individual campus
enrollment, administrative leadership and appropriate committees,
and partner with and support the AP Higher Ed team in facilitating
and coordinating key faculty and academic unit relationships in
support of credit policy.
– Monitor and advise on system and institutional policies and
practices in the areas of admissions, enrollment management,
placement, and credit-by-examination.
– Provide intelligence and direction on a range of emerging trends
affecting students getting ready, getting in, and getting through
college at 2- and 4-year programs of study.
– Design and conduct workshops and technical assistance trainings that
help inspire California higher education officials and users to
support the adoption of critical College Board products and
services.
– Embed in the CA state efforts within State and District Partnership
as well as in cross divisional efforts to drive coordinated
strategies and plans that align K12 and Higher Ed objectives nd
actions, with the goal of seamlessly supporting access and equity
for California students.

Strategy and Project Management (50%)

• Work across multiple programs and teams within the College Board and
  with the major California higher education systems to initiate
  dialogue and generate support for College Board products and
  services.
• Recommend and enact strategies advocating full utilization of
  College Board programs and services within and across California
  higher education institutions, with a primary focus on AP Access
  coursework, Landscape; raising the awareness of diverse higher
  education constituents to the benefits of the programs and the
  communication of those benefits to internal and external audiences.
• Provide strategic direction, monitoring and tracking of College
  Board products and services, especially trends and potential issues
  affecting student success in California.

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– Ensure strong strategic alignment, linkages, and communication
between Higher Ed and K-12-focused efforts, including building
necessary partnerships with other advocates and constituents who
could help advance College Board’s efforts in the state.

About You

You have:

Master’s degree and/