Senior Manager, Education Outreach (Trs Assessment Entity)

What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.
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Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.

• Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!
• Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
• The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
• 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)

We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as...

• Resources for child and elder care
• Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
• Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
• Plus many more!
• Free financial and legal counseling
• Free mental health counseling services

Position Summary
This position’s primary duties will include leading a team of Managers and Assessors, supporting Texas Rising Star (TRS) program across the state. Assumes responsibility for key implementation deliverables, developing and implementing protocols, and ensuring program compliance.
Position Key Accountabilities

• Prepares/makes oral presentations at local, state, or national professional meetings. May also participate in committees as deemed appropriate for the department.
• May support the development and oversight of budgets.
• Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, monitors the progress of projects, and provides supervision and guidance to key staff members.
• May manage, through input to departmental leadership or directly, Human Resources activities for direct administrative reports in regards to: recruiting and selection, hiring and termination, training, professional development, mentoring, counseling, performance evaluations, and salary planning.
• Translates current research into lessons/materials/presentations for practitioners (teachers, administrators, and early childhood specialists).
• Coordinates, oversees, and maintains initiatives and/or project activities between internal stakeholders and external consultants or stakeholders/customers. For example, may develop curriculum resources for use in early childhood and elementary schools.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Travels to local, state, and national training sites to monitor and evaluate implementation of project activities/materials.
• Supervises and monitors implementation of project activities and fidelity monitoring.
• Creates training and determines training needs with little feedback from leadership; networks with lead developer and manages content contributors. For example, may write and direct classroom/center instructional videos for early childhood practitioners/specialists.

Certification/Skills
Certified teacher preferred. Knowledge of current reading research applications, experience with presenting best practices in reading, experience in classroom, experience supervising and/or coaching.
Minimum Education
Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree in education preferred.
Minimum Experience
Ten (10) years of experience in one of the following areas is required: curriculum writing, and/or managing school/child care programs, and/or designing and conducting professional development programs for teachers. May substitute required experience with equivalent years of education beyond the minimum education requirement.
Physical Requirements
Exerts up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds frequently and/or a negligible amount constantly to move objects.
Security Sensitive
This job class may contain positions that are security sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of Texas Education Code

• 51.215

Residency Requirement
Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.