THECB - IT Director (Portfolio Management)

Please paste the following URL into a browser to view the entire job posting on the CAPPS Careers page.https://erphcmprd.cpa.texas.gov/psp/candidateportal/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS\_HRAM\_FL.HRS\_CG\_SEARCH\_FL.GBL?Page=HRS\_APP\_JBPST\_FLandAction=UandFOCUS=ApplicantandSiteId=1andJobOpeningId=106513andPostingSeq=1Job DescriptionYour job application must be completely filled out. Resumes do not take the place of the requirement to include this information on the applicationAbout the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) works to ensure that all Texans have access to high-quality, affordable higher education opportunities that prepare students for successful careers and strengthen the state's workforce and economy. Through collaboration with colleges, universities, policymakers, and education partners across Texas, THECB advances initiatives that expand educational opportunity, promote student success, and support the future of higher education.About Information Technology Services The Information Technology Services (ITS) Division advances THECB's mission by delivering secure, reliable, and customer-focused technology services that enable agency staff to effectively serve Texas students, institutions, and communities.Our organization is committed to operational excellence through modern technology, strong governance, strategic partnerships, and continuous improvement. We are modernizing how technology services are delivered by strengthening infrastructure and operational resilience, advancing cloud-first and hybrid infrastructure, improving platform reliability and security, and building a culture centered on accountability, collaboration, innovation, and service excellence.At THECB, we believe technology is more than infrastructure and support. It is a strategic business partner that enables our agency to better serve students, institutions, and the State of Texas. About the Role The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is seeking an experienced and collaborative leader to serve as the Director of Portfolio Management. Reporting to the Senior Director of Business Strategy, this position is a key member of the Information Technology Services leadership team and provides strategic leadership and oversight for the agency's technology portfolio management organization, including Project Management, Product Owners, and Business Analysts. The Director is responsible for ensuring technology demand, portfolio priorities, projects, products, and resources are managed through consistent, transparent, and outcome-focused practices. This position establishes portfolio management and delivery governance practices that help THECB determine what technology work should be pursued, how priorities should be balanced, how resources should be aligned, and how delivery performance and business outcomes should be measured. Responsibilities include leading technology demand intake and prioritization; directing portfolio and project governance; strengthening project and program delivery practices; developing Product Owner and Business Analyst capabilities within ITS; aligning roadmaps, capacity, dependencies, and delivery commitments; and establishing meaningful portfolio performance measures and executive reporting. Working collaboratively with ITS leadership, agency executives, business stakeholders, and technology teams, the Director helps translate organizational priorities into executable technology work while strengthening transparency, accountability, delivery discipline, and shared ownership of outcomes across business, product, project, and engineering functions. This position supervises management and professional staff and exercises significant initiative and independent judgment while serving as a trusted advisor on portfolio management, prioritization, delivery governance, and organizational execution.Why Join Our Team This is an exciting opportunity to help shape how technology priori ies become measurable outcomes at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. As a member of the ITS leadership team, you'll play a critical role in strengthening portfolio governance, maturing project and product delivery practices, improving organizational visibility, and building a high-performing team focused on turning strategy into execution.In this role, you'll have the opportunity to: Lead the evolution of technology portfolio management, prioritization, and delivery governance across the agency. Build, mentor, and develop high-performing Project Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and leaders while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Strengthen the connection between agency strategy, business needs, product priorities, technology investments, and delivery capacity. Establish meaningful portfolio metrics, governance practices, and performance measures that improve organizational transparency and support executive decision-making. Improve how business, product, project, and engineering teams work together to define needs, establish priorities, manage commitments, and deliver measurable outcomes. Make a lasting impact by helping technology enable the agency's mission of expanding educational opportunity and supporting higher education across Texas. If you are passionate about developing people, improving organizational execution, bringing clarity to competing priorities, and building portfolio and delivery practices that create measurable business value, we encourage you to apply.General Description:Performs highly advanced (senior-level) managerial work for the Information Technology Services (ITS) Division of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). Serving as the Director of IT Operations, this position provides strategic leadership and oversight for the agency's IT operations function, including infrastructure, networks, platforms, and enterprise support systems. Th