Capps Plumbing and Sewer, Inc. · 5 days ago
Project Manager, Assessment Technology (Project Manager IV)
Texas Education Agency1701 NORTH CONGRESS AVENUE
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expCapps Plumbing and Sewer, Inc. is associated with the Texas Education Agency, which aims to improve outcomes for public-school students in Texas. The Project Manager, Assessment Technology is responsible for ensuring that online assessment platforms meet the needs of Texas school districts by collaborating with vendors and overseeing system specifications, quality assurance, and data management.
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Responsibilities
Vendor Collaboration & Specification Development: The Project Manager collaborates with TEA and vendor technical teams to build and refine system specifications for TIDE, TDS, CRS, and other assessment-related tools, ensuring these specifications reflect district-level realities such as network capacity, hardware availability, bandwidth constraints, and staff support levels. In this role, the Project Manager represents the district technology perspective during requirements, gathering sessions and user acceptance testing cycles, advocates for backward compatibility and low system requirements to maintain accessibility across all Texas districts, and participates in roadmap discussions to ensure district priorities and classroom realities drive future system enhancements
Quality Assurance & Release Readiness: The Project Manager coordinates with TEA and vendors to ensure user acceptance testing (UAT) is conducted and signed off for every release, maintains and executes administration-specific checklists to verify readiness for each testing window, including STAAR, TELPAS, and Alternate assessments, tracks and records all changes, issues, and post-release findings to inform future improvements and version control, and develops and maintains a “lessons learned” archive to guide new feature requests and specification updates
System Integration & Data Management: The Project Manager reviews and validates data exchanges between assessment systems and districts, collaborates with vendors to improve automation and reduce redundant manual work, and simplifies data imports and exports. Additionally, the Project Manager provides guidance on secure and efficient API data retrieval to ensure outputs are meaningful and manageable for district users, and supports the development of sample API calls, schemas, and best-practice data workflows that districts can easily implement
Documentation, Communication, & Training: The Project Manager partners with the division’s publications team and vendors to improve and streamline user documentation, technical guides, and release notes. They translate technical specifications into clear, accessible guidance for district technology coordinators and test administrators, review and edit user guides, technical specifications, and FAQs for clarity and accuracy before statewide distribution, and contribute to the development of video tutorials, checklists, and district-facing resources that simplify technology implementation. Additionally, the Project Manager collects and synthesizes feedback from district technology staff across the state to identify barriers to testing readiness and maintains records of system issues, feature requests, and usability trends for future development planning
Team Management & Supervision: The Project Manager effectively leads and manages a high-performing team
Qualification
Required
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university
At least five (5) years of experience in education
Certified Texas Contract Manager (CTCM) certification must be obtained within the first six (6) months of employment
Experience with statewide assessment systems or other large-scale technology deployments in K–12 environments
Experience with district technology infrastructure, including network setup, firewalls, content filters, device management, and software deployment
Familiarity with TIDE, TDS, CRS, and their interactions with district SIS systems
Knowledge of API integration, REST principles, and data-exchange formats (CSV, XML, JSON)
Strong communication and documentation skills to translate between technical and non-technical audiences
Company
Capps Plumbing and Sewer, Inc.
Capps Plumbing and Sewer is a family-owned and operated plumbing business serving Chicago's north and northwest suburbs for 30 years.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Joe Capps
Owner and Co-Founder
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