Jobs at Houston Independent School District

Leads instructional quality across multiple schools by supervising campus support leaders and principals, providing coaching and performance management, advancing equity and student outcomes, and coordinating operational support. Ensures regulatory compliance, stakeholder engagement, and alignment of human capital, finance, facilities, transportation, nutrition, and special-population services with instructional priorities. Directly supervises principals and indirectly oversees teachers across feeder patterns.

Coordinates departmental administration, leadership-team activities, meetings, projects, communications, records, and stakeholder support. Engages customers and school communities through frequent school visits to gather feedback, assists with project timelines and deliverables, organizes events and workshops, and supports administrative functions across departments. Maintains databases and filing systems, manages office supplies and equipment, and provides guidance to administrative staff without formal supervisory authority.

Leads district-wide talent management programs, including pre-hire and onboarding processes, personnel changes, teacher certification compliance, substitute teacher operations, I-9 completion, and vacancy reporting. Oversees employee movement initiatives such as leveling and crosswalks, provides guidance to Talent Management teams, supports staffing decisions, and ensures compliance with applicable regulations. The role requires advanced judgment, data analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and frequent districtwide travel.

Leads HR process transformation, optimization, standardization, automation, and continuous improvement across HR functions. Partners with HR leaders to streamline workflows, document procedures, implement technology solutions, establish KPIs, ensure compliance, and improve service quality. Develops process maps, training materials, reports, and recommendations while facilitating improvement workshops and managing large-scale initiatives across multiple departments.

Coordinates the Chief of Schools’ office and department activities, including leadership meetings, communications, calendars, records, stakeholder engagement, presentations, events, issue resolution, and special projects. Consolidates budget and operational information, supports project monitoring, and assists with sensitive employee and stakeholder concerns. Requires frequent school visits and collaboration with senior leaders, employees, public agencies, partner organizations, and community stakeholders.

Leads high-profile investigations involving discrimination, harassment, bullying, and employee misconduct. Coordinates with campus administrators, legal counsel, law enforcement, child protection agencies, and risk management. Reviews and approves investigations for regulatory and policy compliance, analyzes interviews and evidence, trains and mentors investigators, and provides daily leadership and guidance on investigative practices.

Directs the accounting department and oversees general ledger, payables, receivables, fixed assets, cash management, financial reporting, audits, internal controls, regulatory compliance, and accounting policies. Provides financial guidance to district leadership, collaborates with budget and procurement teams, and supervises accounting staff. Ensures compliance with GAAP, GASB, Texas Education Agency regulations, and public-sector financial reporting requirements.

Leads the strategy, development, governance, delivery, and continuous improvement of systems supporting state reporting and compliance. Owns the systems portfolio across prioritization, requirements, testing, release, adoption, support, and documentation. Partners with Information Technology on PowerSchool, Ed-Fi, integrations, automation, analytics, workflows, and defect resolution. Supervises systems operations and knowledge management staff while ensuring reliable, secure, maintainable reporting solutions.

Supervises district and state assessment programs, including administration, training, reporting, and compliance tracking. Monitors student progress toward testing and graduation requirements, provides standardized assessment reports to campus leadership, and supports administrators and staff in using assessment data for informed decision-making.

Designs, implements, operates, and supports large-scale enterprise networks spanning routing, switching, wireless, network access control, monitoring, and telecommunications. Administers Cisco infrastructure, troubleshoots complex network issues, optimizes performance and security, plans upgrades, coordinates vendors, evaluates technologies, and maintains documentation and operational standards. Provides technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance while supporting multiple sites, infrastructure projects, outages, and on-call activities.

Coordinates HR support across instructional divisions, facilitating talent management, certification, hiring, compliance, and personnel actions such as terminations, transfers, and promotions. Serves as a primary contact and general HR subject matter expert for division leadership, advising on employee relations, position management, retention, and related human resources functions.

Supports and executes departmental tasks and projects, contributes to initiative implementation, collaborates with team members, and helps maintain smooth departmental operations.

Performs standard and advanced secretarial and administrative duties under general supervision. Supports a manager or senior manager, completes independent project assignments, and applies knowledge of departmental practices and district policies and procedures.

Develops secure, scalable custom software solutions using React, .NET/C#, SQL Server, Power Platform, and Microsoft Copilot. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, design reviews, requirements analysis, technical documentation, configuration management, end-user support, troubleshooting, and vendor coordination. Collaborates with Business Analysts and QA Testers to deliver maintainable applications aligned with business needs.

Lead the strategic vision, development, review, and continuous improvement of 6–12 language arts and social studies curriculum and assessment systems. Analyze student and campus data, guide scope and sequence decisions, coach curriculum writers, support professional learning, and ensure instructional materials align with standards, accessibility requirements, district goals, and classroom implementation. Manage team deliverables, stakeholder engagement, implementation challenges, and assessment improvements across campuses.

Leads an elementary school campus by directing instructional strategy, improving student achievement and attendance, ensuring legal and policy compliance, hiring and developing staff, managing budgets and data systems, maintaining a safe learning environment, engaging families and community partners, and overseeing daily school operations.

Designs, integrates, validates, and improves data systems supporting a school district’s Teacher Incentive Allotment program. Builds longitudinal student-teacher datasets and automated assessment pipelines, develops and validates student growth models, simulates teacher designations, forecasts funding, maintains dashboards, supports TEA submissions, conducts data-quality and fairness analyses, and briefs district leaders. The role also documents methodologies, evaluates policy changes, identifies participation and measurement risks, and collaborates with Finance, HR, principals, and TIA committees.

Develop Houston ISD New Education System Art of Thinking curriculum. Create teacher-facing materials, including implementation guidance slide decks, Demonstrations of Learning, student activities, and differentiated assignments aligned with daily learning objectives.

Performs standard and advanced secretarial and administrative duties under general supervision. Supports a manager or senior manager, completes independent project assignments, and applies department practices and district policies and procedures.

Designs secondary mathematics curriculum and job-embedded professional learning for grades 6–12. Creates teacher-facing materials, slides, activities, and assessments aligned with district standards and TEKS. Evaluates curriculum for rigor, clarity, and cultural relevance; collaborates with teachers, leaders, and stakeholders; and participates in professional learning communities to strengthen instructional practices and implementation.