Performance Pay Coordinator

Mission Statement:
Uplift's mission is to create and sustain public schools of excellence that empower each student to reach their highest potential in college and the global marketplace and that inspire in students a life-long love of learning, achievement, and service in order to positively change their world.
Primary Purpose:
The Performance Pay Coordinator is responsible for the execution, validation, and compliance of the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) and Performance Pay programs. This position ensures the integrity of data, supports accurate and timely submissions, manages observation calibration and training, and provides high-level customer service to internal and external stakeholders.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Manage and maintain Performance Pay scorecards assignments, ensuring all eligible staff are accurately captured and validated. This will include ensuring all teachers have visibility into the class and student rosters to which they will be held accountable, and providing guidance on needed updates or corrections.
• Maintain reporting on beginning-of-year and end-of-year testing completion statuses and partner with the Academic Team to ensure completion.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with Performance Pay and TIA business rules and district procedures.
• Conduct testing and validation of Performance Pay outcome data for accuracy and consistency.
• Oversee TIA correlation testing to ensure valid alignment between teacher performance and student growth measures.
• Assist in planning and execution of observation compliance and training programs, including training, recalibration, and scoring of observers.
• Coordinate and lead the TIA submission process to the Texas Education Agency (TEA), ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Conduct TIA testing and validation to maintain data accuracy and compliance with state and district requirements.
• Facilitate the annual feedback and revision cycle to review received feedback, evaluate program effectiveness, and implement needed improvements.
• Manage the TIA and Performance Pay inboxes, providing accurate and timely responses to inquiries.
• Administer the Performance Pay appeal window process, ensuring fairness, transparency, and adherence to timelines.
• Provide exceptional customer service to staff, leaders, and partners, ensuring clarity and support in all program communications.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education, Experience, And/or Certification(s)

• Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree preferred; may substitute equivalent work experience for degree preference.
• Experience Requirements: A minimum of 2 years of data management, educator effectiveness, compensation, human resources, or program compliance experience is required.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to maintain confidentiality, communicate professionally, and maintain professionalism under stressful conditions.
• Strong analytical and data validation skills with keen attention to detail.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Demonstrated commitment to high-quality customer service.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and Excel

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Employee must be able to maintain emotional control under stress. Occasional prolonged and irregular hours will be necessary. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to feel, touch, and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:
The environment requires close proximity to other employees, frequent interruptions, and extended periods of time viewing a computer screen, and noise levels from moderate to high. There may be activity from other employees and students of distracting nature. The role will require occasional travel to school sites and other locations; current driver's license and reliable transportation required.

Starting Salary:
$55,000

Application Procedure:
Apply online

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Uplift Education is an equal employment opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state or local law.