Director - Financial Performance

Region-3-Education-Service-Center; Victoria (TX); On-site; USD 98,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

Region 3 ESC in Victoria, TX seeks a Director for Financial Performance to oversee budgets and financial operations for the service center and district partners.

The role requires strong budgeting expertise, process improvement, and capacity to lead cross-functional teams while ensuring regulatory compliance and high-quality service delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree, Master’s Degree preferred
• Five+ years of budgeting/budget planning experience
• 3-5 years as a Texas School District Business Manager

Responsibilities

• Designs, delivers, monitors client budgets and financial records
• Collaborate with Grant Management teams
• Develop expenditure plans for local, state, and federal funding
• Align Region 3 business operations with school finance support
• Supervise department staff

Skills

Budgeting

Process optimization

Data analysis

Communication

Budget training

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master’s Degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office

Google Sheets

Excel

Financial software

Job description

Director - Financial Performance

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Job Details

Job ID: 5905783

Application Deadline: Sep 30, 2026 11:59 PM (Central Standard Time)

Posted: Aug 27, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

Job Description

Role Summary

The Director for Financial Performance provides strategic oversight and leadership for the operational functions that drive the efficiency and effectiveness of the Service Center and its partner districts. This role is responsible for managing and aligning key operational areas for external Business Office services with high-quality support including regular and pertinent training for both internal staff and district staff and technical support. The Director of Financial Performance ensures that all services are delivered with operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and a focus on continuous improvement. This position requires strong organizational management, process optimization, and strategic decision-making to enhance overall performance and meet the evolving needs of the ESC and the districts served.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree, Master’s Degree preferred
• Minimum of five or more years of experience working with budgets/budget planning
• Prefer 3 - 5 years of experience as a Texas School District Business Manager
• Supervisory experience

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• A demonstrated track record of success in process execution
• An in-depth knowledge of budgeting and budget planning
• Ability to plan and implement a planning and performance management work model for budgets/finances
• Ability to design, deliver, and facilitate high-quality work products for adult audiences, both in person and virtually
• Ability to connect with diverse audiences and understand complex and unique circumstances in order to support
• growth among individuals
• Ability to coach and provide regular feedback on performance measures as it relates to grant/budget expenses
• Highly organized; ability to manage multiple projects at once and meet deadlines
• Attention to detail with an ability to produce high quality work in diverse environment
• Ability to break down complex information into comprehensive parts, ask questions, synthesize and analyze
• Ability to influence others to achieve outcomes, both within and outside formal management structures
• Collaborative and results-oriented
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrates a growth mindset, desire to self-reflect, give/receive feedback and continuously improve
• Strong sense of personal accountability; takes initiative to meet ambitious goals
• Builds strong relationships without compromising outcomes
• Knowledge of and experience using Microsoft Office, Google, video conferencing tools, and multimedia equipment
• Knowledge of and experience using Google Sheets, Excel, and other financial software for budget planning
• A demonstrated track record of programmatic retention and expansion at district and campus levels
• Ability to provide targeted, high-leverage feedback
• Ability to facilitate a high-quality data meeting
• Ability to analyze data at multiple levels, in order to develop effective expenditure plans
• Ability to coordinate budget training for department leadership

Essential Functions

• Designs, delivers, monitors client budgets and financial records
• Collaborate with Grant Management teams
• Partners closely with department leadership team to develop effective expenditure plans for local, state, and federal funding
• Contributes to the alignment of the vision and mission of Region 3 and the Region 3 business operations and the school finance support departments
• Contributes to the scaling and aligning of best practices with budget and grant expenditures
• Supervises client business operations to ensure timeliness and accuracy of budgeting processes
• Complies with federal and state laws, State Board of Education Rules, and ESC board policy and procedures
• Presents customized administrative overviews of client budget analysis
• Establishes a cadence of meetings with appropriate audiences to share in-depth data results and program progress
• Supervises department staff

All positions at ESC 3 are defined as security-sensitive. Security-sensitive positions are those which require employees to be entrusted with the certain types of data, whether electronic or in paper form. Those data elements, as defined by the ESC 3 Data Classification and Handling Policy may include, but not limited to:

• Sensitive Personal Information (SPI)
• Personally, Identifiable Information (PII)
• Protected Health Information (PHI)
• Family Educational Records (FERPA Data)
• Federal Tax Information (FTI)

It is the employees on-going responsibility to safeguard this type of data and to report any instance of lost or stolen data.

Position Type: Full-Time

Salary: $97,697 to $117,708 Per Year

Job Requirements

• At least 3 year(s) of relevant experience preferred.
• Bachelor degree preferred.
• Citizenship, residency or work visa required

Contact Information

• Missy Klimitchek , Deputy Executive Director
• Administration
• Phone: [phone]
• Email: [e-mail]

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