Under general direction, responsible for monitoring, overseeing, and providing technical support for school budgets, purchasing, position control, and financial operations within the unit. This includes the general fund, grant and donations, and activity budgets. In addition, serves as the primary resource for payroll, general accounting, accounts payable, and fixed assets for all schools within the unit. Ensures maximum impact of fiscal recourses and facilitates compliance to federal, state, and local guidelines and policies.
The Deputy Chief of College, Career and Military Readiness provides vision and leadership to support the district in providing all students with access to high-quality pathways to college and career that prepare students for jobs of the future. The Deputy Chief will lead Career and Technical Education, Advanced Academics and College Readiness while ensuring a set of coherent supports for students through Counseling, Advising, Academics and Student Supports. The Deputy Chief of College, Career and Military Readiness position will oversee the Division of CTE, the Division of Advanced Academics and the Division of College Readiness and reports to the Chief Academic Officer.
Under the direction of the Chief Academic Officer, this leader creates a vision and strategy focused on ensuring all students have the support needed to focus on learning in the classroom. Services provided by this team will support all divisions and campuses across the district. This includes overseeing the Wrap Around services department, including oversight of Wrap Around Specialists on campuses to ensure all kids have basic needs met. This also includes supporting Health and Medical services on campuses, providing support for high quality Counseling programs, and supporting Crisis Management across the district. This role promotes a streamlined approach to ensuring that the non-academic and social-emotional needs of students are being met to maximize academic student outcomes and reports directly to the Chief Academic Officer.
The Director of Accountability & Reporting directs, develops, and evaluates the district’s reporting plan including the state and federal accountability systems, the superintendent’s evaluation metrics, and district wide publications used to make policy decisions and recommendations that have significant impact on the performance of the district. Oversees the work of multiple staff members including CTM, and Coordinators to ensure timely, accurate data for district decision making. Champions evidence based best practices through communication and collaboration amongst district and campus administrators to improve student outcomes, district performance, and state and federal accountability performance and collaborates across departments to identify and escalate KPI to ensure districtwide adherence to district, state, and federal guidelines.
The primary focus of this role is to provide strategic direction and oversee the operations, alignment, and completeness of Curriculum Design deliverables for Fine Arts grades K-12 as well as continuing long lasting relationships in the Houston community regarding Fine Arts implementation. The Director plays a critical role in driving organizational success by setting goals, developing strategies, and ensuring effective implementation Fine Arts operations and integration within the district. This position requires strong leadership skills, a strategic mindset, and the ability to give critical feedback.
The Director - Business Partnerships will provide strategic leadership and management for the CCMR Department by building relationships and collaborating with key business and industry partners. This position works with the Coordinator 2 and Coordinator 1 of Business Partnerships in addition to other CCMR Directors and key external stakeholders. This position leads the business partnerships team to build relationships with external partners, identify and pursue grant funding opportunities, and implement partnership initiatives districtwide.
The Director - School Choice is responsible for the oversight of all school choice policies and processes. This role serves as an advocate for families and students in obtaining access to their schools of choice, manages the operational processes and works with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that students have access to and information about how to access high-quality educational options.
The Director – State Reporting and Compliance is responsible for managing a team of data analysts, data coordinators, data scientists, data visualization staff, and state compliance analysts working in tandem with Information Technology (IT), Information and Analytics, and Data Governance to oversee and support macro level data curation tasks, development of code books and methodology, and state and federal data submissions informed by best practices in educational data management. This role leads the EdFi transition in collaboration with IT, and continues to support advanced project planning for continuation post-transition. role requires a convergence of data and analytics skills, IT skills, and business expertise in both quantitative K-12 data reporting at the district, state, and federal level, including but not limited to TSDS reporting, accountability, Student Information Systems, Human Resources Information Systems, and interim, formative, and summative assessment data. This position reports directly to the Executive Director.
Serves as the educational leader of the assigned campus. Responsible for managing policies, regulations and procedures to ensure all students are supervised in a safe learning environment that meets the approved curricula and mission of the school. Guides the character of the school and serves as a model for staff; pivotal in building a high performing team of teachers and support staff. Dedicated to helping students achieve personal and academic success by using proven best practices for teaching and learning.
Assists the Principal in providing the overall leadership and is responsible for ensuring that student achievement is improved and other key HISD objectives met.
The Executive Director of a Feeder Pattern will oversee and support approximately 10-15 schools and be responsible for leading a cross-functional team focused on supporting schools to deliver rigorous instruction and ensure overall student well-being. Improving the quality of instruction in all schools of the feeder pattern and coaching principals so that the quality of instruction improves student achievement and performance outcomes. Evaluate principals using a pay-for-performance system tied to clear metrics. Support principals and their teams, as well as engage with division superintendents and across HISD to provide school support. Manage, develop, and support HISD principals, including building leaders’ capacity, tools, and mindsets to make decisions that support high-quality instruction and improved academic outcomes for all students. Coach and mentor principals to implement the district’s vision to ensure a rigorous and high-quality education that ensures students a pathway to long-term economic security and civic participation.
Directs, plans, designs, implements, coordinates, and evaluates the teacher, and school leader, appraisal and development systems. Designs and implements local guidelines and policies related to the appraisal and development systems. Serves as district subject matter expert regarding state and federal policy as it pertains to teacher, school leader, and non-teacher appraisal systems. Coordinates across HISD to define a coherent approach to instructional appraisal.
The Executive Director of Human Resources (Division) is a key member of the Human Resources and Division leadership teams, responsible for overseeing the overall management of the Division's HR functions. This role works both independently and collaboratively with HR and Division leadership teams to address challenges, identify solutions, and ensure the strategic implementation of HR workstreams aligned with the District’s Action Plan. The Executive Director leads a team of HR professionals in the Division, partners with key cross-functional stakeholders, and ensures the delivery of high-quality HR services in support of the Division’s goals to drive organizational success. This role is uniquely positioned to strengthen the “unit concept” of support for the Division, which shall be measured by clarified responsibilities, strengthened processes, and real-time, data-driven outcomes.
