Main Responsibilities of a Director of Stakeholder Engagement at Texas Education Agency
King's main responsibilities as Director of Stakeholder Engagement at the Texas Education Agency center on improving relationships with school districts through "experiences," streamlined "communications," and the development of internal tools. These initiatives aim to foster a deeper understanding of how agency work impacts students, ultimately making the agency more effective and efficient in supporting Texas's educational system.
Stakeholder Engagement, Interpersonal Communication, Program Management, Process Improvement, Educational Leadership
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King Adjei-Frimpong
Director of Stakeholder Engagement
Texas Education Agency
UCLA, 2010
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business (MBA)
Political Science, American Studies
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Communication and Marketing
Disabled, Scholarship Recipient, Pell Grant Recipient, Took Out Loans, Worked 20+ Hours in School, Greek Life Member, Transfer Student
Video Highlights
1. King's team builds relationships between the Texas Education Agency and school districts to improve understanding of how agency work impacts students.
2. They improve communication between the agency and districts by streamlining interactions across various programs and initiatives.
3. The team develops internal tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness within the agency, ultimately benefiting students and staff.
Transcript
What are your main responsibilities within your current role?
My team is the stakeholder engagement team. Everything we do is designed to create more empathetic relationships with our districts. I achieve this through three different ways.
One is through experiences. I lead experiences for TEA staff to visit districts across the state. This means they can better understand how their work impacts these districts, and how their work impacts kids.
There are teams that help design and implement the curriculum, creating textbooks and training teachers on how to use them. There are also staff and colleagues in finance and analytics. Their work may not be as directly related, but they are all part of the same agency and there for the same reason: to support kids.
This gives them a better understanding of what their work looks like and the impact they are contributing to. That's one way.
The second way is through our communications. How can we make our communications more streamlined and coherent? The Texas Education Agency connects with districts in a number of different ways, through grants, compliance, finances, and programs.
There are many different touch points. How can these touch points be more streamlined so districts can better interact with the agency?
The last way is through some of the tools that we create. How can the agency itself be more effective and efficient with the work that it's doing? My team helps support and create tools used internally to make the work of my colleagues more effective and efficient.