Job Description
Set the vision and strategic direction for content-specific curriculum, ensuring alignment between instructional materials, professional learning, and student outcomes through data-driven leadership. Emphasis: Leadership, strategy, and ownership of both curriculum quality and its effective implementation across classrooms.
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- Strategic Assessment Leadership: Define and drive the instructional vision for assigned content area(s); guide scope and sequence decisions and prioritize improvements based on student data and district goals.
- Curriculum Review & Continuous Improvement: Lead structured review cycles of assessment data, and teacher feedback to ensure rigor, alignment to standards, and accessibility for all learners. Lead campus testing coordinators and stakeholders through large-scale data shifts, ensuring clarity, buy-in, and coherence. Anticipate implementation challenges and proactively design supports for campuses. Partner with school campus coordinators to ensure assessments are executable within real classroom conditions.
- Team Leadership & Capacity Building: Manage and coach curriculum writers and contributors; establish systems for collaboration, feedback, and high-quality deliverables. Build team capacity to operate with flexibility, responsiveness, and continuous improvement.
- Professional Learning Leadership: Design, review, and support the delivery of professional development for lead teachers; ensure alignment to state and local assessment expectations and a strong connection to classroom implementation.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Analyze student and campus performance, implementation trends, and feedback to inform strategic adjustments and professional learning adjustments; monitor impact over time.
- Overall Orientation: End-to-end ownership of assessment systems—strategy, materials, professional learning, and continuous improvement based on student and district outcomes.
Job Qualifications
EDUCATION
Bachelor's Degree
WORK EXPERIENCE
At least 5-7 years - Campus leadership experience required
TYPE OF SKILL AND/OR REQUIRED LICENSING/CERTIFICATION
Software Oracle SAP Microsoft Office Other: Curriculum systems, leadership, data analysis Equipment Office equipment (e.g., computer, copier)
LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES
Level 3-Manages. Accomplishes the majority of work objectives through the management of direct reports. Provides day-to-day directions to staff; may become directly involved, as required, to meet schedules and resolve problems. Responsible for assigning work, meeting completion dates, interpreting and ensuring application of policies and procedures. Receives assignments in the form of objectives, with goals and the process by which to meet goals. Provides input to hiring, performance and budget.
BUDGET AUTHORITY
Participates in a group plan and/or budget development
PROBLEM SOLVING
Decisions are made with greater freedom and discretion, including recommendations that are subject to approval on matters that may affect multiple departments across HISD. Job is frequently expected to recommend new solutions to problems, to improve existing methods/procedures/services and generate new ideas. May also review decisions made by other individuals on more routine matters.
IMPACT OF DECISIONS
Decisions have considerable impact to multiple divisions or the organization causing risks or improvements to relationships, significant efficiencies, or delays in operations, and/or significant financial gains or expenses. Errors are serious and difficult to discover, normally involve decisions not subject to detailed review and will result in excessive costs and/or significant project delays.
COMMUNICATION/INTERACTIONS
Negotiate and influence - interpret department strategies and services, resolves conflicts, influences outcomes on matters of significance for the division, conducts final negotiations and coordinates approvals/decision making below the executive level. Interactions are typically with customers and Top Management
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS
Leads others in the resolution of highly sensitive and confidential issues on behalf of the department. Acts as a trusted advisor and becomes involved in the customer's decision-making process including presenting alternatives and information and applying persuasion and negotiation skills in the resolution of problems. Monitors customer service standards.
WORKING/ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
Work is normally performed in a typical interior work environment which does not subject the employee to any hazardous or unpleasant elements.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- At least 5–7 years of campus leadership experience
- Experience with curriculum systems
- Leadership experience managing and coaching staff
- Data analysis skills
- Oracle experience
- SAP experience
- Microsoft Office experience
What We Do
Houston Independent School District (HISD) is a public school district serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12 in Houston, Texas. As the largest public school system in Texas, it provides comprehensive K–12 education and works to prepare students for life beyond the classroom. Its mission emphasizes high-quality, student-centered education, critical thinking, leadership, community participation, and equitable opportunities for success.
