Associate Director, Project & Portfolio Management

College Board; United States; On-site; USD 56,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

College Board's AP Prototype Development and Evaluation team helps AP learn fast and decide well on major innovations, producing decision-ready recommendations grounded in market requirements, feasibility, and evidence from staged pilots.

The Associate Director, Project & Portfolio Management brings structure and continuity to a fast-moving portfolio of prototype and pilot initiatives, in a fully remote or hybrid role that moves between cross‑functional execution and managing the team's

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder portfolios across full lifecycle.
• Experience owning knowledge and document management systems, templates, version control, and reusable artifact libraries.
• Strong writing, editing, and document production skills under tight timelines.
• Preferred: experience with Agile methodology.

Responsibilities

• Owns project management across the full lifecycle of the team's prototype and pilot initiatives, including timelines, milestones, and decision gates.
• Coordinates cross-functional work, convening contributors and keeping workstreams aligned to charters and deadlines.
• Tracks risks, blockers, dependencies, and decisions across active initiatives, escalating items that threaten timelines or go/no-go gates.
• Owns the team's document and knowledge management system, including the artifact library, templates, and version control.
• Builds and maintains trackers and status reporting that give the team and leadership a clear view of portfolio health.
• Facilitates agile-style planning, including sprint or cycle planning, standups, and retrospectives.

Skills

Project management

Knowledge management

Documentation/writing

Agile

Tools

Templates

Version control

Job description

College Board's AP Prototype Development and Evaluation team helps AP learn fast and decide well on major innovations, producing decision-ready recommendations grounded in market requirements, feasibility, and evidence from staged pilots.

The Associate Director, Project & Portfolio Management brings structure and continuity to a fast-moving portfolio of prototype and pilot initiatives, in a fully remote or hybrid role that moves between cross‑functional execution and managing the team's decision‑ready documents.

Responsibilities

• Owns project management across the full lifecycle of the team's prototype and pilot initiatives, including timelines, milestones, and decision gates.
• Coordinates cross‑functional work, convening contributors and keeping workstreams aligned to charters and deadlines.
• Tracks risks, blockers, dependencies, and decisions across active initiatives, escalating items that threaten timelines or go/no‑go gates.
• Owns the team's document and knowledge management system, including the artifact library, templates, and version control.
• Builds and maintains trackers and status reporting that give the team and leadership a clear view of portfolio health.
• Facilitates agile‑style planning, including sprint or cycle planning, standups, and retrospectives.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in project or program management, managing complex, multi‑stakeholder portfolios across their full lifecycle.
• Experience owning knowledge and document management systems, including templates, version control, and reusable artifact libraries.
• Strong writing, editing, and document production skills under tight timelines.
• Preferred: experience with Agile methodology.
• Hiring range of $56,000-$90,000, with the ability to travel up to 10% of the time.