Executive Director, External Business Services and Oversight

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Executive Director, External Business Services and Oversight

$186,624 - $231,192 Annually

PROMOTIONAL OPPORTUNITY

Online applications

Must Be Submitted By

04/20/2026

5:00 P.M. (Pacific)

To apply, you must be a current permanent employee of LACOE by the application deadline.

The Los Angeles County Office of Education is seeking an experienced strategic fiscal expert who is equally passionate about operational excellence and mentoring fiscal leaders to serve as the Executive Director, External Business Services and Oversight.

The Executive Director, External Business Services and Oversight directs the activities of the Business Advisory Services Division; provides mandated and discretionary business and financial services to school and community college districts and other local education agencies (LEAs) within Los Angeles County; serves as a primary policy and administrative resource regarding school business, finance legislation, and financial compliance, ensuring the fiscal integrity, stability, and solvency of educational agencies under the responsibility of the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE).

The Well Qualified Candidate Will Possess the Following

Knowledge

• Public school business administration and finance, including school district accounting, auditing, budgeting, and revenue determination
• Business and financial management systems
• Organizational and budgeting structures of school districts
• State Education Code, Revenue and Taxation Code and other statutes, codes, rules, and regulations pertaining to all areas of school business and finance
• Processes and structure for the adoption and implementation of state legislation
• Fundamental concepts of employment laws, codes, and regulations, including EEO, FLSA, FMLA, and Cal/OSHA and applicable provisions of collective bargaining agreements
  
  

Competencies:

• Critical Thinking – Analytically and logically evaluating information, propositions, and claims
• Decision Making – Choosing optimal courses of action in a timely manner
• Professional & Technical Expertise – Applying technical subject matter to the job
• Informing – Proactively obtaining and sharing information
• Presentation Skill – Formally delivering information to groups
• Writing – Communicating effectively in writing
• Customer Focus – Attending to the needs and expectation of customers
• Handling Conflict – Managing interpersonally strained situations
• Influencing – Affecting or changing others' positions and opinions
• Relationship Building – Establishing rapport and maintaining mutually productive relationships
• Leadership – Guiding and encouraging others to accomplish a common goal
• Managing Performance – Ensuring superior individual and group performance
• Business Process Analysis – Defining, assessing, and improving operational processes and workflow
• Managing Change – Addressing key factors that influence successful organizational change
• Political & Organizational Savvy – Working skillfully with politics, procedures, and protocols across organizational levels and boundaries
• Strategic Perspective – Evaluating immediate actions in context of achieving long range objectives
• Project Management – Planning and tracking projects to ensure they are on-time, on-budget, and achieve their objectives
• Cultural Proficiency – Modeling communications and interactions that respect and include all individuals and their languages, abilities, religions and cultures
  
  

Required Education and ExperienceEducation: A bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, public administration, or other fields closely related to the job requirements of this classification, from an institution of higher learning recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation. Foreign degrees and credit units require translation and equivalency established by an agency recognized by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

Experience: Seven years of experience providing fiscal and business management for a school district or county office of education, including three years of supervisory experience directing a financial or business operational unit.

Equivalency Provision: A master’s degree in business administration, finance, public administration, or other fields closely related to the job requirements of this classification, may substitute on a year-to-year basis for up to two years of the required general experience.

Additional Requirements: A master's degree with major coursework in business administration, public administration, or a closely related field is preferred. A valid driver’s license and the availability of private transportation or the ability to obtain transportation between job sites is required.

Hybrid remote schedules may be available.

Selection ProcessCandidates who meet the minimum requirements above will be invited to participate in an examination that may consist of a technical interview.

Contact

For information about the examination process you may send an e-mail to

Jennifer Kirkpatrick at kirkpatrick_jennifer@lacoe.edu

For general inquiries please call 562.803.8360 (Mon- Fri 8:00 am - 5:00 pm)

For complete application information, please go to https://www.lacoe.edu/pc

LACOE Personnel Commission, 9300 Imperial Hwy, EC-Annex, Downey, CA 90242

Additional InformationMinimum qualifications must be met by the close of filing date. For more information, please go to https://lacoe.edu/jobs/hr/classified. For additional information on our testing procedures, please visit Applicant Resources on our website. Selection and promotion are based on a competitive examination process. Candidates who pass all exam parts are ranked according to overall exam score and placed on an eligibility (hiring) list. Vacant positions are filled from the top three ranks. Eligibility lasts for 12 months; however, additional recruitment may occur under a separate bulletin with additional candidates being merged onto the eligibility list. Some positions that involve public contact may require bilingual proficiency for which selective certification may apply (Education Code 45277.5). In addition, the eligibility list resulting from this examination may be used to fill vacancies in related job classifications for which no eligibility list exists (Education Code 45272). Veterans' Credit may be awarded for entry jobs.

Reasonable accommodations in completing an application, testing, and employment are available to individuals with disabilities. If you would like to request an accommodation, please call 562.803.8360 as early as possible.

This examination is authorized as Promotional Only, open to permanent LACOE employees.

Recruitment ID: 26-LAC516

This announcement does not constitute an implied contract. Any part of this announcement is subject to change.