Chief Financial Officer

IDEA Public Schools, Inc - Weslaco, Texas

IDEA Public Schools, Inc (Individuals Dedicated to Excellence and Achievement Public Schools), a not‐for‐profit charter school operator based in Weslaco, Texas, seeks a strategic, mission-driven leader to serve as its next Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

IDEA Public Schools was built on the foundation that all children can and will succeed if given the chance. As such, IDEA committed to a mission of "College for ALL children," ensuring more students from low-income backgrounds, students who would be the first generation in their families to attend college, and students who come from groups historically underrepresented in higher education have access to realizing their dreams by first completing a college degree on the path to becoming future leaders. Currently, the network serves over 85,000 college-bound students in 143 schools and its affiliates across four states: Florida, Louisiana, Ohio, and Texas, with an operating budget of over a billion dollars. IDEA has been recognized as a "Great Place to Work" and received national rankings in The Washington Post, the U.S. Department of Education’s list of Blue Ribbon Schools, and U.S. News & World Report’s Top High Schools lists. As a network, nearly 100% of IDEA’s graduates have been accepted to college for the past 16 years and 7,795 IDEA alumni have attended over 300 colleges.

IDEA Public Schools seeks to hire a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) that will be IDEA’s top financial leader responsible for the fiscal health of the organization. With accountability for balancing the operating and capital budgets, planning for changes in revenue, containing costs, and managing the institution's level of risk to protect its assets, the CFO provides leadership, oversight, and stewardship for all aspects of IDEA’s financial resources while ensuring absolute institutional integrity on fiscal and administrative matters. The CFO will be the institutional representative on financial matters to the Texas Education Agency and board of directors. In this capacity, the CFO will be involved in discussions regarding long-term financial viability, decision support, all funds budgeting, strategic allocation of resources among campuses and schools, enterprise systems, business process redesign and funding structure/approval of capital projects.

While this is a remote/hybrid role, the applicant must currently live in or be willing to relocate to Texas, with preference for one of IDEA’s regions—Austin, El Paso, Houston, Permian Basin (Midland/Odessa), Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio, or Tarrant County (Fort Worth).

IDEA Public Schools has retained Spencer Stuart and welcomes nominations or expressions of interest. If you wish to submit your application materials or nominate someone to serve as the next Chief Financial Officer, please send an email message with supporting materials to: IDEACFO@SpencerStuart.com.