Jobs at Houston Independent School District

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.

Provides strategic leadership for a department, oversees operations and teams, drives organizational growth, implements strategic plans, collaborates cross-functionally, and supports overall departmental success.

Supervise district and state assessment administration, train staff, track student progress toward testing graduation requirements, prepare standardized reports, and support campus administrators and staff in using assessment data for decision-making.

Produces and formats tests from curriculum-provided content in the district’s assessment platform. Enters content, verifies paper and online display, and accurately configures accommodations and testing settings. The role requires strong attention to detail to prevent errors that could affect test validity for students.

Manages daily office operations, coordinates resources, and provides comprehensive administrative support to multiple teams. Maintains an efficient, organized, and productive work environment while handling multiple tasks, demonstrating attention to detail, and supporting smooth office functioning.

Coordinates procurement and financial operations for Career and Technical Education programs, including curriculum materials, industry-based certifications, testing, and related goods and services. Maintains purchasing records, tracks orders and expenditures, supports budget monitoring and reconciliation, updates staffing and position information, and advises campuses and central staff on purchasing processes and allowable CTE expenditures. Collaborates with program staff, campus leaders, vendors, and district departments to ensure resources are effectively managed.

Supports department operations by coordinating administrative tasks, facilitating communication, maintaining records, and assisting team members and stakeholders to ensure smooth execution of activities.

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.

Supports the district press office and media relations team by developing communications strategies, coordinating campaigns, managing social media coverage, and creating written, digital, video, and community-facing materials. Serves as the fluent Spanish anchor and host for a district video platform, provides spokesperson and on-camera communications during sensitive situations, coordinates stakeholder engagement, and reports departmental progress to management.

Provides strategic and operational leadership for HR data, reporting, compensation administration, and HR information systems. Leads process improvement, data quality, workflow automation, compensation programs, workforce planning, and decision-support initiatives. Collaborates with Human Resources, IT, Finance, Academics, and school leadership to improve employee services and translate workforce information into actionable insights.

Oversees district accounts payable, including vendor payments, purchase-order matching, travel reimbursements, vendor statement reconciliation, and annual 1099 issuance. Resolves accounting inquiries, responds to records requests, communicates with vendors and departments, and manages accounting staff through goal setting, performance appraisals, training, and KPI oversight.

Develops Fine Arts curriculum for Houston ISD’s New Education System, including teacher-facing slide decks, implementation guidance, Demonstration of Learning activities, student assignments, and differentiated materials aligned to daily learning objectives. The role also coordinates communication between campuses and district-level arts events.

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.

Analyzes complex business problems and develops cost-effective processes, procedures, policies, workflows, training, controls, and testing plans. Defines business requirements, evaluates data quality, recommends process improvements, supports systems initiatives, manages business-side change, and helps implement projects. Responsibilities may include business requirements approval, data conversion, user acceptance testing, training, rollout, and coordination with IT project managers.

Manages employee misconduct reporting and compliance for a Texas school district. Reviews allegations, tracks statutory deadlines, prepares TEA and SBEC submissions, maintains confidential case records, coordinates with HR, legal, law enforcement, and campus leaders, and supports investigations and notifications. Develops dashboards, conducts quality-control reviews, prepares procedures and training, assists with audits, and recommends process improvements. Requires availability for urgent matters during evenings, weekends, and holidays.

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.

Assists the high school principal with overall school leadership, student achievement improvement, and meeting key district objectives.

Develops K–5 secondary literacy curriculum and job-embedded professional learning aligned with district standards. Collaborates with stakeholders to improve instructional practices, maintain coherence across grade levels, and help students build skills for rigorous content and long-term academic success.

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

Collaborates with team members across District functional areas, contributes expertise to cross-functional projects, supports innovation and process improvement, and helps deliver successful organizational outcomes.