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Join the College Board as a Senior Fellow, Postsecondary Workforce Pathways, where you'll strategize and execute workforce pathway initiatives to enhance career opportunities for students through innovative AP courses.

Responsibilities: Lead strategy development for AP career courses, influence stakeholder engagement, and enhance partnerships with educational and civic organizations to improve access and equity in postsecondary education.

Skills: 15+ years of professional experience, exceptional leadership capabilities, strong relationship-building skills, and a commitment to educational equity and access.

Qualifications: Master's degree required; PhD/EdD preferred, along with expertise in community engagement and postsecondary success.

Location: Fully remote, with options for hybrid work near College Board offices.

Compensation: $160000 - $215000 / Annually

Senior Fellow, Postsecondary Workforce Pathways

College Board - HMA

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). 

Role Type: 

• This is a full-time term position that will last for 3years from the start date. 

About the Opportunity

College Board’s Higher Education, Membership, and Access (HMA) division ensures access to college and career opportunities for students through its Members. In addition to opening the door to educational opportunity, it’s about ensuring students have direct, supported pathways into college and meaningful careers through rigorous and relevant coursework. As the Senior Fellow, Postsecondary Workforce Pathways, you will serve as the key strategic partner to the Senior Vice President of HMA in developing and executing this agenda across the division and organization. Your work will initially focus on career course–based pathways, beginning with AP Business with Personal Finance and AP Cybersecurity. These courses enable students to earn college credit, develop industry-relevant skills and credentials, and access career opportunities that enhance long-term economic mobility while helping to reduce the wealth gap.You will collaborate closely with the SVP, colleagues across HMA, and the organization to shape, communicate, and advance initiatives that remove barriers, expand deliverycapacity, increase abundance, and ensure all students, especially those traditionally underserved, canbenefitfrom AP career course-relevant opportunities. This includes building institutional, employer, and civic partnerships that recognize and empower these courses in ways that go beyond credit.

In this role, you will:

Strategy (50%)

• Assess and inform a strategy for holistically defining our agenda, ensuring it reflects organizational priorities and aspirations.
• Influence relevant stakeholders and partners to shape how students can access and benefit from AP Career relevant coursework in ways that extend beyond traditional credit recognition.
• Develop, advise on, and act on the expansion of key partnerships with higher education systems, employers, the military, and civic organizations to address instructional capacity challenges and broaden course availability.
• Support innovation by identifying, testing, and scaling new models, such as joint ventures between universities and trusted institutions (ie, military branches, statewide workforce agencies, major employers) that carry public trust and mission alignment.
• Support and further refine the work of divisional partners to create differentiated value maps for AP Business for Personal Financeand AP Cybersecurity by institutional type, with specific attention to regional public and community colleges, clarifying the intended uses and benefits for each segment.

Partnership Development and Stakeholder Engagement, (30%)

• Build alliances with:
• State and system leaders, governors, and agency heads in partnership with GPER.
• Community-based and civic organizations that support equitable access for all students.
• Employers and industry groups seeking to grow talent pipelines in business and cybersecurity.
• Negotiate capacity-expanding partnerships that enable more institutions and programs to facilitate enrollment in and/or credit and benefits from AP Business and AP Cybersecurity.
• Foster integrated pathways that link these courses to clear opportunities with partners.

Communications and Outreach(20 %)

• Inform and support how we position and explain our Access agenda to diverse stakeholders, ensuring the message clearly connects course-based access to both college and career success.
• Serve as a key partner to senior leadership and organizational partners in crafting communications that inspire institutional, employer, and civic commitment to these courses.
• Represent College Board at high-profile convenings and forums, using compelling storytelling and data to secure buy-in, shape policy environments, and drive resource commitments.

About You

You are/have:

• 15+ years professional experience with a track record of producing substantial results
• Outstanding team leader/manager, your results come from your ability to attract, develop, excite, and retain exceptional talent, at scale
• Distinctive problem-solver, you have a strong ability to apply these skills to a diverse set of problems
• Deep interest in addressing systems-level problems and opportunities – you are encouraged by the challenge of helping to strengthen the College Board to help solve problems with students and members at scale
• Highly effective at building relationships across lines of difference
• Deep commitment to educational equity and access

Exceptional candidates can effectively speak to: 

• Expertise in developing successful strategies for community and civic engagement relative to college and career work
• Experience with broad range of postsecondary institutions, admissions, enrollment, and/or student success functions
• Content specific and technical skills (knowledge, experience, software, research, writing, data analysis, etc.)
• Masters required, PhD/EdD preferred
• Ability to travelseveral times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business.

All roles at College Board require:

• A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions and comfort with learning and applying new digital tools independently and proactively. 
• Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal
• A learner's mindset and a commitment to growth: welcoming diverse perspectives, giving and receiving timely, respectful feedback, and continuously improving through iterative learning and user input.
• A drive for impact and excellence: solving complex problems, making data-informed decisions, prioritizing what matters most, and continuously improving through learning, user input, and external benchmarking.
• A collaborative and empathetic approach: working across differences, fostering trust, and contributing to a culture of shared success

About Our Process  

• Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
• While thehiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone/video screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise such as live coding, a panel interview, a conversation with leadership and reference checks.  

What We Offer

At College Board, we offer more than a paycheck- we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. We’re a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensationgrounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market.

A Thoughtful Approach to Compensation

• The hiring range for this role is $160,000–$215,000.
• Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar roles at the College Board.
• We aim to make our best offer upfront, rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data.
• We adjust salaries by location to ensure fairness, no matter where you live.

You’ll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it’s like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process. Check out ourcareers page for more.

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