Information Technology Director - IT Project Management, 600451 (2026-03392)
Hawaiʻi State Department of Education · Branch, LA · 1 mo ago
Information Technology$130k–$184k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections only if content present. Must use for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, remove boilerplate.
We need to parse the description.
Key sections:
- About the role: maybe a brief description of position: "Information Technology Director" under OITS, reporting to Assistant Superintendent, etc. Could be a paragraph summarizing role.
- Responsibilities: list of duties (leadership and planning, organizational and operational management). Use
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, remove boilerplate.
We need to parse the description.
Key sections:
- About the role: maybe a brief description of position: "Information Technology Director" under OITS, reporting to Assistant Superintendent, etc. Could be a paragraph summarizing role.
- Responsibilities: list of duties (leadership and planning, organizational and operational management). Use - .
- Requirements: Minimum Qualifications (Education, Experience). Also maybe Desired Experience etc. Could be under Requirements.
- Qualifications: maybe Knowledge, Ability to, Desired Knowledge, Desired Ability.
- Skills: maybe not explicit; we could combine knowledge/abilities as Skills? But we should only include sections if real content. The posting includes Knowledge and Ability sections; we could put them under Skills or Qualifications. The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need to decide which sections to include based on content.
We have:
- About the role: we can write a short paragraph summarizing the role.
- Responsibilities: we have detailed duties under Leadership and Planning and Organizational and Operational Management. We'll list them as bullet points.
- Requirements: Minimum Qualifications (Education, Experience) plus Desired Experience maybe.
- Qualifications: Knowledge and Ability to (maybe also Desired Knowledge and Desired Ability). Could be separate but we can combine.
- Skills: maybe not separate; but we could treat Knowledge and Ability as Skills. However we already have Qualifications. Might be okay to omit Skills if no distinct content.
- Benefits: The posting mentions WORK YEAR AND BENEFITS: 12-month basis with vacation and sick leave provided according to applicable regulations. Also later details about benefits under Payday section: Holidays, Vacation, Sick Leave, Health Insurance, Group Life Insurance, Premium Conversion Plan. So we have benefits content.
- Pay: SALARY RANGE: EOSR-10, $130,120 to $184,201. Also placement details. So we have Pay.
- Schedule: WORK YEAR AND BENEFITS mentions 12-month basis. Also maybe schedule: 12-month appointment. Could be under Schedule.
We must not create sections with filler like "not specified". So we include only those with real content.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, scam warning, application instructions, etc. So remove HOW TO APPLY, POSTING CYCLE, etc.
We must preserve all substantive information: that includes salary range, benefits details, work year, etc.
We need to format as HTML fragment: only the inner content, no or . Use
headings,
for prose,
- for lists.
We must not repeat job title as heading.
Let's craft.
First, About the role: a paragraph: "The Information Technology Director reports to the Assistant Superintendent of the Office of Information Technology Services and provides leadership for IT project management services and support, strategic planning, committee leadership, and oversight of branch operations, staffing, fiscal resources, and continuous improvement."
We can include that.
Responsibilities: list bullet points summarizing duties. Could be many; we need to preserve all substantive information, not summarize away detail. But we can list each duty as a bullet; that's preserving detail. Must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include each duty mentioned. That's a lot. Let's extract duties from the text:
Under Leadership and Planning:
- Leads the development of strategic and operational plans for IT project management services and support for OITS.
- Based on current and future department strategic direction and initiatives, anticipates possible new projects requiring technology project management services and plans for them accordingly.
- Develops, convenes, and leads committees and advisory groups which may include technology experts, department stakeholders and user groups, subject matter experts, external stakeholders and experts, etc.
- Provides expert consultation and guidance on project management best practices.
- Represents the department and OITS by serving as a technology expert on committees, boards, task forces, etc., as well as presenting information to various groups at the department, state, national, and international level.
- Serves as a member of the OITS leadership team, actively participates and contributes in the planning and implementation of strategic technology initiatives, department technology plans and strategies, problem/issue resolution and solutions.
- Monitors and researches trends and best practices within the technology and education industries to anticipate strategic direction changes, needs, opportunities, and impacts for OITS and the department.
- Advises team members and OITS leadership on issues related to projects being implemented.
Under Organizational and Operational Management:
- Develops priorities for the branch, in alignment with technology, department, and other strategic plans and direction, as well as based on technical and resource opportunities and/or constraints, vendor/product road maps, and other technology and education information.
- Evaluates and improves services and support provided by the branch, obtaining internal and external formal feedback through various feedback loops and methodologies.
- Establishes and maintains a portfolio of projects managed by the branch and advises leadership and sponsors of any risks, delays, and resource issues that may impact the success of the project.
- Ensures IT projects are executed in alignment with technology and department strategic plans.
- Serves as project manager on specified projects as directed by the OITS assistant superintendent.
- Ensures technology solutions managed by the branch are adequately maintained, supported, and performing as intended; addresses issues and incidents impacting services and performance of the solutions and ensures production changes are appropriately tested, vetted, and approved.
- Engages with business owners, stakeholders, and users to understand business needs and requirements as part of continuous improvement processes.
- Manages branch staffing resources including recruitment, hiring, orientation/on-boarding, performance evaluation/management, and other staffing resourcing and management activities.
- Identifies and implements a professional development and learning strategy to build and maintain institutional and staff knowledge and growth.
- Manages branch fiscal resources including development and oversight of the branch's annual budget and expenditure plans, technology acquisition processes (solicitation, contract development and execution, vendor management), annual licensing management and renewals; practices sound and ethical fiscal accountability methods.
- Oversees and directs the daily operations of the branch for and through direct reports.
- Effectively communicates information, plans, strategies, etc of the department and its leadership to branch staff to ensure appropriate input, actions, and implementation occurs and aligns to strategic direction.
- Develops and oversees the a process of continuous improvement of all branch resources and procedures, including the identification of areas of improvement, opportunities, and gaps; solicits input from branch staff, OITS leadership, and other impacted stakeholders to ensure collaboration and input results in successful improvement and operations; anticipates, identifies, and resolves complex obstacles to the success of the overall program as well as specific projects.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
We need to include all these as bullet points. That's long but okay.
Requirements: Minimum Qualifications Education and Experience. Also Desired Experience maybe. Also Combined Education and Experience statement. Also Substitutions note.
We'll list as bullet points.
Qualifications: Knowledge and Ability to (including Desired Knowledge and Desired Ability). We'll list bullet points.
Skills: maybe not needed; we could omit.
Benefits: WORK YEAR AND BENEFITS: 12-month basis with vacation and sick leave provided according to applicable regulations. Also later details: Holidays, Vacation, Sick Leave, Health Insurance, Group Life Insurance, Premium Conversion Plan. Also Payday info maybe not benefit but could be under Pay? Actually Payday is about pay schedule; could be under Pay or Schedule. We'll treat Payday under Pay maybe.
But we have separate Pay section for salary range. Schedule: we have 12-month basis. Also maybe work year.
We'll create Benefits section with bullet points: 12-month appointment, vacation 21 days per year, sick leave 21 days per year, holidays (paid holidays during school year per collective bargaining), health insurance (state pays part of premiums for medical, drug, vision, adult dental), group life insurance (free), premium conversion plan (state deducts health care cost to increase take-home pay). Also maybe note about accumulated unused credits toward retirement.
Pay section: Salary range EOSR-10, $130,120 to $184,201. Placement details: Department of Education certificated employees placed according to regulations; others placed on first step $130,120; new external applicants placed on initial step; placement above initial step based on special characteristics, critical needs, exceptional qualifications, availability of funds, etc., requires prior approval. Also Payday: first paycheck within first 3 pay periods; payday on 5th and 20th (or previous business day) of each month.
Schedule: maybe we can note 12-month basis (already in Benefits). But we could still have Schedule section: 12-month appointment, full-time.
We must not repeat content unnecessarily but it's okay if appears in both sections? Might be duplicate but we should avoid duplication. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." It doesn't forbid duplication but better to avoid. We could put schedule info under Benefits (work year) and not have separate Schedule. But we need to decide if we include Schedule heading only if we have specific content not covered elsewhere. Since we have work year and benefits, we could put schedule under Benefits. But the instruction says we can include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it. So we can include Schedule if we have content like "12-month basis". That's specific. But we already have that in Benefits. Could still include Schedule with that content; duplication may be okay but maybe better to avoid duplication. However we need to preserve all substantive info; duplication doesn't lose info, just repeats. It's not prohibited. But we should aim for few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe combine work year and benefits into Benefits section, and omit Schedule.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay.
Now we need to format.
Let's craft HTML.
We'll start with
About the role
then ...
.
Then Responsibilities
with many - .
Then
Requirements
.
Then Qualifications
.
Then Benefits
.
Then Pay
or . We'll use
for list items.
Make sure no extra whitespace? It's fine.
Now write content.
About the role paragraph: "The Information Technology Director reports to the Assistant Superintendent of the Office of Information Technology Services and leads the development of strategic and operational plans for IT project management services and support, provides expert consultation on project management best practices, represents the department on various committees, oversees branch operations, staffing, fiscal resources, and continuous improvement initiatives."
That captures essence but maybe missing some details. However we must preserve ALL substantive information; summarizing may lose detail. The instruction says do NOT summarize away detail. So we need to keep details, not just summary. But we can't list all duties in About the role; that's what Responsibilities is for. About the role can be a brief overview but must not omit substantive info that is only in About the role (there is none). The substantive info is in duties etc. So a brief overview is okay as long as we don't lose any info that is only described there. Since the overview is not unique info, it's fine.
Thus we can have a short paragraph.
Now Responsibilities: list each duty as bullet. We'll need to be careful to not miss any.
Let's enumerate bullets exactly as phrases.
I'll copy each bullet
headings,
for prose,
- for lists.
We must not repeat job title as heading.
Let's craft.
First, About the role: a paragraph: "The Information Technology Director reports to the Assistant Superintendent of the Office of Information Technology Services and provides leadership for IT project management services and support, strategic planning, committee leadership, and oversight of branch operations, staffing, fiscal resources, and continuous improvement."
We can include that.
Responsibilities: list bullet points summarizing duties. Could be many; we need to preserve all substantive information, not summarize away detail. But we can list each duty as a bullet; that's preserving detail. Must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include each duty mentioned. That's a lot. Let's extract duties from the text:
Under Leadership and Planning:
- Leads the development of strategic and operational plans for IT project management services and support for OITS.
- Based on current and future department strategic direction and initiatives, anticipates possible new projects requiring technology project management services and plans for them accordingly.
- Develops, convenes, and leads committees and advisory groups which may include technology experts, department stakeholders and user groups, subject matter experts, external stakeholders and experts, etc.
- Provides expert consultation and guidance on project management best practices.
- Represents the department and OITS by serving as a technology expert on committees, boards, task forces, etc., as well as presenting information to various groups at the department, state, national, and international level.
- Serves as a member of the OITS leadership team, actively participates and contributes in the planning and implementation of strategic technology initiatives, department technology plans and strategies, problem/issue resolution and solutions.
- Monitors and researches trends and best practices within the technology and education industries to anticipate strategic direction changes, needs, opportunities, and impacts for OITS and the department.
- Advises team members and OITS leadership on issues related to projects being implemented.
Under Organizational and Operational Management:
- Develops priorities for the branch, in alignment with technology, department, and other strategic plans and direction, as well as based on technical and resource opportunities and/or constraints, vendor/product road maps, and other technology and education information.
- Evaluates and improves services and support provided by the branch, obtaining internal and external formal feedback through various feedback loops and methodologies.
- Establishes and maintains a portfolio of projects managed by the branch and advises leadership and sponsors of any risks, delays, and resource issues that may impact the success of the project.
- Ensures IT projects are executed in alignment with technology and department strategic plans.
- Serves as project manager on specified projects as directed by the OITS assistant superintendent.
- Ensures technology solutions managed by the branch are adequately maintained, supported, and performing as intended; addresses issues and incidents impacting services and performance of the solutions and ensures production changes are appropriately tested, vetted, and approved.
- Engages with business owners, stakeholders, and users to understand business needs and requirements as part of continuous improvement processes.
- Manages branch staffing resources including recruitment, hiring, orientation/on-boarding, performance evaluation/management, and other staffing resourcing and management activities.
- Identifies and implements a professional development and learning strategy to build and maintain institutional and staff knowledge and growth.
- Manages branch fiscal resources including development and oversight of the branch's annual budget and expenditure plans, technology acquisition processes (solicitation, contract development and execution, vendor management), annual licensing management and renewals; practices sound and ethical fiscal accountability methods.
- Oversees and directs the daily operations of the branch for and through direct reports.
- Effectively communicates information, plans, strategies, etc of the department and its leadership to branch staff to ensure appropriate input, actions, and implementation occurs and aligns to strategic direction.
- Develops and oversees the a process of continuous improvement of all branch resources and procedures, including the identification of areas of improvement, opportunities, and gaps; solicits input from branch staff, OITS leadership, and other impacted stakeholders to ensure collaboration and input results in successful improvement and operations; anticipates, identifies, and resolves complex obstacles to the success of the overall program as well as specific projects.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
We need to include all these as bullet points. That's long but okay.
Requirements: Minimum Qualifications Education and Experience. Also Desired Experience maybe. Also Combined Education and Experience statement. Also Substitutions note.
We'll list as bullet points.
Qualifications: Knowledge and Ability to (including Desired Knowledge and Desired Ability). We'll list bullet points.
Skills: maybe not needed; we could omit.
Benefits: WORK YEAR AND BENEFITS: 12-month basis with vacation and sick leave provided according to applicable regulations. Also later details: Holidays, Vacation, Sick Leave, Health Insurance, Group Life Insurance, Premium Conversion Plan. Also Payday info maybe not benefit but could be under Pay? Actually Payday is about pay schedule; could be under Pay or Schedule. We'll treat Payday under Pay maybe.
But we have separate Pay section for salary range. Schedule: we have 12-month basis. Also maybe work year.
We'll create Benefits section with bullet points: 12-month appointment, vacation 21 days per year, sick leave 21 days per year, holidays (paid holidays during school year per collective bargaining), health insurance (state pays part of premiums for medical, drug, vision, adult dental), group life insurance (free), premium conversion plan (state deducts health care cost to increase take-home pay). Also maybe note about accumulated unused credits toward retirement.
Pay section: Salary range EOSR-10, $130,120 to $184,201. Placement details: Department of Education certificated employees placed according to regulations; others placed on first step $130,120; new external applicants placed on initial step; placement above initial step based on special characteristics, critical needs, exceptional qualifications, availability of funds, etc., requires prior approval. Also Payday: first paycheck within first 3 pay periods; payday on 5th and 20th (or previous business day) of each month.
Schedule: maybe we can note 12-month basis (already in Benefits). But we could still have Schedule section: 12-month appointment, full-time.
We must not repeat content unnecessarily but it's okay if appears in both sections? Might be duplicate but we should avoid duplication. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." It doesn't forbid duplication but better to avoid. We could put schedule info under Benefits (work year) and not have separate Schedule. But we need to decide if we include Schedule heading only if we have specific content not covered elsewhere. Since we have work year and benefits, we could put schedule under Benefits. But the instruction says we can include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it. So we can include Schedule if we have content like "12-month basis". That's specific. But we already have that in Benefits. Could still include Schedule with that content; duplication may be okay but maybe better to avoid duplication. However we need to preserve all substantive info; duplication doesn't lose info, just repeats. It's not prohibited. But we should aim for few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe combine work year and benefits into Benefits section, and omit Schedule.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay.
Now we need to format.
Let's craft HTML.
We'll start with
About the role
then...
. ThenResponsibilities
- with many
- .
Then
Requirements
- .
Then
Qualifications
- .
Then
Benefits
- .
Then
Pay
- or
. We'll use
- for list items.
Make sure no extra whitespace? It's fine.
Now write content.
About the role paragraph: "The Information Technology Director reports to the Assistant Superintendent of the Office of Information Technology Services and leads the development of strategic and operational plans for IT project management services and support, provides expert consultation on project management best practices, represents the department on various committees, oversees branch operations, staffing, fiscal resources, and continuous improvement initiatives."
That captures essence but maybe missing some details. However we must preserve ALL substantive information; summarizing may lose detail. The instruction says do NOT summarize away detail. So we need to keep details, not just summary. But we can't list all duties in About the role; that's what Responsibilities is for. About the role can be a brief overview but must not omit substantive info that is only in About the role (there is none). The substantive info is in duties etc. So a brief overview is okay as long as we don't lose any info that is only described there. Since the overview is not unique info, it's fine.
Thus we can have a short paragraph.
Now Responsibilities: list each duty as bullet. We'll need to be careful to not miss any.
Let's enumerate bullets exactly as phrases.
I'll copy each bullet
- .
Then