Jobs at Denver Public Schools

Leads district-wide payroll operations, systems, compliance, reporting, controls, and process improvement. Oversees payroll staff, ensures accurate and timely pay, manages tax filings, reconciliations, garnishments, audits, and regulatory reporting, and administers payroll, timekeeping, and HCM/ERP systems. Partners with HR, Finance, Technology, vendors, auditors, and government agencies while driving strategic initiatives, performance measurement, training, and operational improvements.

Conducts research and analytical projects by acquiring, validating, and analyzing large datasets. Applies statistical methods, trend analysis, scenario modeling, and data visualization to produce actionable insights for district stakeholders. Partners with teams and leaders to define reporting needs, communicates findings, supports performance measurement, and facilitates data literacy training. Serves as the primary analyst for assigned focus areas.

Provides intermediate administrative and clerical support for school or department operations. Duties include data management and reporting, invoice and budget tracking, purchasing and accounting documentation, payroll and timekeeping processing, records maintenance, stakeholder assistance, and support for student safety procedures. The role protects confidential student and employee information and requires proficiency with office productivity, spreadsheet, database, and word processing software.

Improves elementary student achievement through literacy-focused professional learning, instructional coaching, school support, assessment-data analysis, and curriculum implementation. Leads learning cycles for teachers and leaders, models culturally sustaining instructional practices, supports multilingual learners, and partners with district academics and school directors. The role specializes in elementary humanities and promotes culturally responsive education, rigorous standards-based instruction, and measurable student outcomes.

Leads enterprise-wide strategic initiatives, with at least half the role focused on Oracle ERP governance and projects. Manages portfolios, governance, budgets, risks, resources, vendors, communications, change management, and technology implementations from planning through deployment. Develops project plans, monitors outcomes, leads continuous improvement, and coordinates cross-functional stakeholders across Denver Public Schools.

Supports a team of teachers by facilitating collaboration, professional learning, curriculum planning, culturally responsive instruction, data-driven instruction, and student progress monitoring. The role builds teacher capacity, promotes continuous learning, supports learning labs and data inquiry, and may model classroom instruction. Applicants must already hold a qualifying Denver Public Schools teaching position and complete required training.

Provides financial oversight and guidance for federal, state, and private grants. Develops budgets and forecasts, analyzes spending, prepares and reviews financial reports, monitors compliance, supports audits, identifies risks and variances, and advises school and department leaders on allowable fund use. The role also trains grant personnel, documents processes, facilitates budget meetings, and implements process improvements across Denver Public Schools.

Develops and implements internal and external communications and marketing strategies for a school. Manages stakeholder relationships, enrollment and retention communications, website and social media updates, newsletters, promotional content, community relations, and positive school messaging. Coordinates with school and district leaders to ensure consistent communications supporting enrollment, student engagement, school culture, and community partnerships.

Provides end-to-end HR partnership for designated departments, advising leaders on employee relations, labor relations, policies, benefits, performance, and organizational strategy. Supports managers and principals through coaching and professional development, interprets bargaining agreements, collaborates with unions and community stakeholders, leads HR communications and change initiatives, and manages staff and programs supporting employee achievement.

Leads complex education research and analytics initiatives from problem definition through data validation, statistical modeling, synthesis, and stakeholder presentation. Develops metrics, predictive models, forecasts, dashboards, and actionable recommendations for district leaders. Applies experimental and quasi-experimental methods, ensures data quality and governance, reviews analytical work, and builds organizational analytical capacity through standards, mentoring, and methodological guidance.

Leads and manages an elementary school’s educational programs, staff, budget, facilities, student discipline, instructional improvement, and community relationships. Supervises administrative, certificated, and classified personnel; supports professional development and curriculum implementation; develops plans to improve student achievement; administers the school budget; and maintains confidentiality regarding district matters.

Leads and manages Montbello High School, overseeing staff, instructional programs, curriculum implementation, student achievement, budgets, resources, discipline, and community relationships. The principal supervises administrative, certificated, and classified personnel; supports professional development; ensures educational goals are met; and maintains confidentiality regarding district matters. The role requires a Colorado principal license, relevant education, at least five years of educator experience, strong communication skills, Colorado residency, and commitment to equity and student success.

Provides intermediate administrative and clerical support for school or department operations. Responsibilities include data management and reporting, invoice and budget tracking, purchasing and accounting documentation, payroll and timekeeping, correspondence, event logistics, process tracking, stakeholder assistance, and occasional staff guidance. The role also supports student safety duties as trained and protects confidential student and employee information under FERPA and district policy.

Provide district-wide leadership for special education programs (ages 3–21), ensuring legal compliance, equitable evidence-based practices, staff recruitment and development, budget and operations oversight, family and community collaboration, and continuous improvement to support student outcomes.

Provides career-services support for students and graduates by coordinating calls, texts, emails, appointments, employment-status updates, workshops, events, job opportunities, and career resources. The role also collects and enters job-placement data and verifies professional licensure through the Colorado DORA website.

Provides complex administrative and clerical support for office operations and school-based programs. Coordinates project initiatives, creates reports, protects confidential student and employee data, supports process improvements, prepares correspondence and communications, maintains websites and newsletters, and tracks invoices, budgets, purchasing, accounting, payroll, and timekeeping activities.

Supervises extended-learning programs, site operations, curriculum delivery, enrollment, attendance, compliance, and staff performance. Leads hiring, training, coaching, scheduling, payroll submissions, discipline processes, family communications, school partnerships, volunteers, and regulatory documentation. Ensures safe, engaging programming for children during school-year, camp, and dismissal-day activities while maintaining licensing, medication, emergency, and attendance requirements.

Supports school office and box office operations by managing ticketing, volunteers, revenue, websites, payroll, budgets, data, records, invoices, purchasing, and administrative requests. Provides information to employees, vendors, families, and community members while protecting confidential student and employee data. This part-time role averages 20 hours weekly and varies seasonally.

Part-time work-study supporting Career Services by contacting students and recent graduates via calls, texts, and email; scheduling appointments; collecting employment and placement data; checking licensure through DORA; promoting workshops and job leads; and maintaining student engagement with career resources.

Supervise day-to-day operations of an extended learning unit: assign and monitor work, ensure quality and productivity, coach and train staff, enforce district procedures, report status, and support team development to meet short-term goals.