Officer - Secondary Education
Harris County Department of Education
Houston, TX 77022
$95,378 - $114,226 a year
Description
Primary Purpose:
The Center for Educator Success (CES) is designed to transform educator talent pipelines by partnering with districts to reimagine a comprehensive approach to educator recruitment and retention. Reporting to the Senior Director the Officer of Secondary Education will serve as a critical member of CES’s Leadership Team, responsible for designing and delivering inspired programming.
Qualifications:
Education/Certification:
- Master’s degree from an accredited university
- Texas Teacher certification
- Texas Principal certification
Special Knowledge/Skills:
- Excellent people leadership skills: able to provide timely and actionable feedback to inspire and move direct reports to action
- Ability to learn quickly and take initiative in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment
- Demonstration of flexible thinking and problem solving
- Proven ability to coach and mentor individuals and team with a high level of emotional intelligence
- Proven ability to design new programs with impact
- Values hard work and team play
- Has a history of valuing and respecting other people
- Regularly demonstrates exceptional work and work habits
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excellent organization, time management and follow-through
Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years of secondary experience
- Minimum of 3 years of experience as a school or district administrator
Major Responsibilities and Duties:
- Set a vision for and manage the Secondary Education team as they forge new pathways for teacher certification and on-going support.
- Execute a strategy to consistently achieve the desired results of increased teacher certification and retention.
- Generate Department revenue annually ranging from $200,000 - $500,000.
- Inspire trust to lead a team to deliver high-quality programming to teachers.
- Lead the design of new Secondary Education Certification Program offerings and support programming.
- Support individual growth of team members around a vision of excellence through calibration, feedback, and data reviews.
- Lead the growth and design of annual content conferences.
- Build trusting relationships with districts and charter networks to both deepen contracted work and expand partnerships.
- Clearly define shared goals and expectations as well as aligned supports.
- Review and revise current curriculum to both produce inspired, resilient, relevant, and skilled teacher candidates as well as maintain compliance with TEA regulations.
- Develop systems to track vital data which speaks to both to individual and program success.
- Regularly review data to identify bright spots, determine needs and adjust.
- Collaborate with external partners, clients, funders, HCDE departments and partner organizations to support learning, development, and innovation.
- Prepare to step in and teacher ECP courses, take on field supervision and support on-going retention efforts including coaching, professional development, and district consultation.
- Develop the leadership potential in others.
- Devote time to continue learning and growing as a leader.
- Willingly offer support to others and step in as needed.
- Perform other duties as assigned.