Director - Organizational Effectiveness

Director - Organizational Effectiveness

Reports to:

Deputy Superintendent

Salary Range: $118,479 - $167,016

Pay Grade: 309

Duty Days: 239

POSITION PURPOSE

The Director Organizational Effectiveness & Employee Engagement provides district wide leadership for employee evaluation, organizational effectiveness, and engagement systems for central office and other non-campus-based employees outside of Cabinet and Extended Cabinet. The Director leads efforts to strengthen organizational effectiveness and employee engagement by evolving evaluation and feedback practices, building supervisor capacity, gathering and responding to employee feedback, and identifying opportunities to improve the employee experience and central office ways of working.

The role develops systems, tools, training, and data-informed practices that strengthen accountability, employee development, engagement, and alignment between individual responsibilities, departmental priorities, and District goals.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Leads the district wide employee evaluation process for central office and other non-campus-based employees outside of Cabinet and Extended Cabinet, ensuring consistent, timely, and high-quality implementation across departments.

Establishes and manages the annual evaluation cycle, including goal setting, beginning-of-year expectations, ongoing feedback, mid-year reviews, end-of-year evaluations, documentation, and completion requirements.

Develops, refines, and maintains evaluation frameworks, competencies, rubrics, tools, procedures, and guidance appropriate for different central office roles and levels of responsibility.

Builds the capacity of supervisors to establish clear expectations, set meaningful goals, provide actionable feedback, conduct effective evaluation conversations, recognize strong work, and address areas requiring improvement.

Develops and facilitates required training, calibration, technical assistance, and ongoing support for supervisors responsible for evaluating employees.

Monitors evaluation timelines, completion, quality, and consistency across departments and establishes systems to identify and address implementation gaps.

Leads district wide central office employee engagement efforts.

Analyzes employee feedback and organizational data to identify trends, strengths, barriers, and opportunities to improve organizational effectiveness and the employee experience.

Partners with department leaders to develop and monitor action plans in response to employee feedback, evaluation trends, and identified organizational needs.

Leads efforts to evolve District practices related to employee feedback, recognition, development, accountability, collaboration, and engagement.

Develops systems and routines that strengthen alignment between individual responsibilities, departmental priorities, and District goals.

Facilitates cross-functional work streams focused on improving central office effectiveness, organizational practices, employee experience, and ways of working.

Develops reports, executive summaries, and presentations that provide District leadership with visibility into evaluation implementation, employee engagement, and organizational trends.

Maintains district wide calendars, guidance, communications, resources, and tools necessary to support consistent implementation of employee evaluation and engagement practices.

Partners with appropriate departments to ensure employee evaluation, engagement, professional learning, leadership development, recognition, and other organizational practices are coordinated and mutually reinforcing.

Identifies opportunities to simplify, modernize, and improve central office systems and practices to strengthen clarity, accountability, responsiveness, collaboration, and employee effectiveness.

Ensures sensitive employee information and evaluation records are handled with appropriate confidentiality, discretion, and professionalism.

PERSONAL WORK RELATIONSHIPS

All Fort Worth ISD employees must maintain a commitment to the District's mission, vision, and strategic goals. Exhibits high professionalism, standards of conduct and work ethic. Demonstrates high quality customer service; builds rapport/relationship with the consumer. Demonstrates cultural competence in interactions with others; is respectful of co-workers; communicates and acts as a team player; promotes teamwork; responds and acts appropriately in confrontational situations.

OTHER DUTIES AS ASSIGNED

Performs all job-related duties as assigned and in…