Why Texas Association of School Boards (TASB)

TASB comes from humble beginnings — picture a one-person organization created in 1949 to advocate for excellence in public education on behalf of Texas school board members. Flash forward to today, and we have over 500 employees working together to provide 1,024 school districts with purposeful resources and services so they can focus on what matters most — excellent education for over 5 million Texas students.

Our employees work alongside talented team members who are passionate about supporting public education and enjoy learning from new and different perspectives. TASB believes the rich variety of expertise our employees collectively bring to the workplace makes our organization highly successful. Our culture has always encouraged employees to grow and become their best selves, professionally and personally, through a variety of innovative and collaborative development opportunities. You’re likely beginning to see why we’ve been regularly named by the Austin Business Journal as one of the Top Ten Best Places to Work!

TASB offers competitive pay, rich benefits (including retirement matching of 2:1 up to 5% after one year, which means that if you contribute 5% to the plan, TASB will contribute 10%), family-friendly paid leave, onsite daycare, onsite gym, wellness program, tuition reimbursement, hybrid work options, and more.

Every role at TASB thoughtfully complements our mission and its impact on school districts across Texas. These roles include work in TASB’s Risk Management Services division, which provides administrative services to the TASB Risk Management Fund – a multi-line self-insurance pool (or “risk pool”) of Texas schools. If you consider your work exceptional, have a passion for risk management, insurance, or risk pools, and want to help drive our mission forward, keep reading!

About You

As the Cybersecurity Consultant for the TASB Risk Management Fund, you will be responsible for utilizing your unique knowledge of the risk management and cybersecurity processes to create and deliver educational resources to Fund members. Your guidance and experience in educational enterprises will help members develop and implement responsive risk management techniques and cybersecurity programs for their organization. This is a hybrid position. Successful candidates would be required to work in office 2 days per week. Remote work may be an option for qualified applicants outside of the Austin-metro area.

A Typical Day

As a thought leader, you will identify, develop, and curate public-education focused cyber risk management resources, content, services, and programs to address known and emerging cybersecurity risks in efforts to mitigate and reduce losses.
Work collaboratively with claims managers, risk management marketing consultants, risk solutions consultants, and other TASB staff to make sure members’ needs are promptly addressed.
Create and maintain quality training, resources and other materials that may include articles, job aids, checklists, slide decks, on-demand content, best practices, and guidance on cyber risk management topics and other education-related issues.
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How You’ll Make An Impact

The Cybersecurity Consultant will support the critical work of Texas public education by ensuring Fund members have the cyber risk management information and resources they need to better serve their school districts and communities.

Skills For Success

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, risk management, information technology, education, or a related field.
Minimum of 5 years' professional experience in cybersecurity, risk consulting, or IT with public school emphasis
Certifications like CISSP, CISM, or CIPP preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

A cybersecurity practitioner who can be a critical thinker and thought leader.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to distill complex technical information into content that can be easily consumed by a non-technical audience.
Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with members, external contacts, and vendors.
Ability to travel within Texas (up to 20%).

The TASB Difference

Enjoy competitive pay and rich benefit offerings.
Be part of a collaborative environment where every contribution impacts Texas public schoolchildren.
Thrive in a culture that promotes bringing your whole self to work every day and emphasizes healthy boundaries and work-life balance.
Learn and grow individually and together through frequent professional development, wellness seminars, and more.
Work alongside transparent leaders with an open and consistent feedback approach.
Celebrate as a team with meaningful (and fun) events and tokens of appreciation throughout the year.

Posting Notices

The health and safety of our employees and members, is our top priority.
The Association is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an individual based on any of the following personal characteristics protected by law: race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including in relation to marital status, pregnancy, pay, sexual orientation or gender identity), age, disability, genetics or veteran status.
This position does not qualify for visa sponsorship.
Any job offer is contingent upon receipt of results of a satisfactory background check.

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