Texas Education Agency · 1 day ago
Project Manager, Assessment Technology (Project Manager IV)
Austin, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
5+ years expTexas Education Agency (TEA) is focused on improving outcomes for public-school students in Texas. The Project Manager, Assessment Technology serves as a strategic liaison to ensure online assessment platforms meet the needs of Texas school districts, overseeing system specifications, user acceptance testing, and data management.
Education
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
An advanced degree may substitute for two years of required experience
Certified Texas Contract Manager (CTCM) certification must be obtained within the first six (6) months of employment
Preferred
Share the belief that all Texas students can achieve at high levels and are able to succeed in college, career, or the military
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
Texas Education Agency
The Texas Education Agency provides information and guidance to public schools, educators, parents, and administrators.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Carla Steffen, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Adrienne Hunter, Ph.D.
CONTRACTOR
Recent News
Government Technology US
2025-10-28
bloomberglaw.com
2025-10-23
Company data provided by crunchbase