ABOUT CSS
A Team Built Around Excellence, Integrity And Rich Friendship
There are many great organizations. We just happen to be especially fond of our own. Maybe it’s the selflessness, maybe it’s the enthusiasm. Maybe it’s the 150 years of Texas school experience among us or the total commitment.
Whatever it is, we love it.
Meet The Team
Dan Hernandez
PresidentDan, President of Charter School Success and the biggest Texas Longhorn fan around, is a big picture guy.
Jordan Elliott
Chief Operations OfficerJordan is our wonderfully overqualified Chief Operations Officer. She is a genuine and caring leader and excellent in all she does.
Jackie Hernandez
Chief FInancial OfficerJackie, our Chief Financial Officer, has always found comfort in numbers.
Karen Emery
Senior Finance DirectorKaren is a Senior Finance Director for Charter School Success. She has 35 years of experience in both independent school districts and charter school finance accounting.
Kari Hoefnagels
Finance DirectorKari is a Finance Director with Charter School Success. She has a wide range of experience spanning more than 20 years in for-profit, non-profit, and higher education capacities.
Sharon Benka
Federal and Special Programs DirectorSharon is an experienced educator as a former teacher, principal and special programs director with ESC Experience.
Laura Jandle
PEIMS DirectorLaura began her PEIMS career at a charter high school and has gone on to coordinate, maintain and submit accurate and timely PEIMS data for a district of 42 campuses.
Melissa Ball
Marketing and Training DirectorMelissa has a wide range of communications experience, including a background in journalism and graphic design, as well as a technical college and charter high school teaching career.
Denise Babb
Federal and Special Programs SpecialistDenise is a Federal and Special Programs Specialist for Charter School Success. Denise has served in a variety of educational capacities in her 34 years in education, including teacher, assistant principal, principal, and 12 years as a federal programs director.
Sheila Sherman
Federal and Special Programs SpecialistDr. Sheila Sherman is a Federal and Special Programs Specialist with Charter School Success. She has served Texas public schools for 31 years and supporting school leadership became her passion.
Amanda John
Marketing and Operations SpecialistAmanda John is a Marketing and Operations Specialist for Charter School Success. Trained as a PA, she loves the challenge of learning and mastering new systems and tools.
Chrystal Hartman
Human Resources SpecialistChrystal Hartman is a Human Resources Specialist with Charter School Success. She began her career with charter schools back in 2013
Kaylee Deleon
Finance ManagerKaylee is a Finance Manager with Charter School Success. She has experience in both charter school and independent school district finance, working primarily with Websmart.
Lacy Noble
Finance ManagerLacy is a Finance Manager with Charter School Success. She excels in high paced environments and has been and always will be a team player.
Annette Miller
Finance ManagerAnnette is a Finance Manager with Charter School Success. Analytical, easygoing, motivated and reliable, she brings 20-plus years of finance, school business and accounting experience, including Rio Brazos Education Cooperative and JR3.
Brittany Claudio
Finance ManagerBrittany is a Finance Manager with Charter School Success. She has had a true passion for logic and numbers from a very young age, which led to a career in accounting.
Kayleen Behrens
Payroll & Benefits SpecialistKayleen is a Payroll and Benefits Specialist with Charter School Success. She has experience at JR3, where she worked on the Payroll/Benefits team, working with both Charter Schools and ISDs.
Shelia Jenkins
Finance SpecialistShelia is a Finance Specialist with Charter School Success. She brings 14 years of school finance experience and 15 years of corporate accounting to the Charter School Success team.
Michael Eastwood
Finance SpecialistMichael is a Finance Specialist with Charter School Success. He has multiple years of experience in charter schools, working both in finance and human resources.
Kaitlin Svatek
Finance SpecialistKaitlin has experience working in multiple positions within Texas Independent School Districts, ranging from clerk all the way up to District PEIMS Coordinator.
Randi Miller
Finance SpecialistRandi is a Finance Specialist with Charter School Success. She brings experience with Websmart from her time as a Payroll Associate at JR3, and several years experience in management, payroll, and Accounts Payables
Angela Garza
PEIMS SpecialistAngela is a PEIMS Specialist for Charter School Success. She has done it all in PEIMS – from flat files to XMLs, to training hundreds of people, background technical work and miles of procedure documents.
Sharon Kroll
Finance SpecialistSharon brings more than 6 years of accounts payable experience, including work at JR3, where she was a Financial Service Specialist for more than four years.
Join Our Team
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If you’re looking to join an amazing team making a difference across Texas, and you enjoy things like competitive pay, traveling for work and opportunities for growth, you’ve come to the right place!
Available positions listed below.
Hiring: Federal Grants Specialist
Experience required:
- A Bachelor’s Degree or higher
- Minimum of 5 years related administrative experience in a Texas public school system or Region Service Center
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- A can-do, team-oriented personality
- Exceptional customer service skills
- Superior written and verbal communication skills
- Effective time-management and task-management skills
- Ability to work on multiple tasks and prioritize appropriately
- Ability to work remotely, independently (from home)
- Ability to travel frequently throughout Texas
- Access to a home office environment
- Stable, high speed internet access
- Experience using various applications within TEASE and TEAL
Hiring: Finance Specialist
Experience required:
- Minimum of 3 years related experience in a school system
- JR3 experience
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- A can-do, team oriented personality
- Exceptional customer service skills
- Superior written and verbal communication skills
- Effective time-management and task-management skills
- Fluency in spreadsheet creation and analysis
- Ability to work remotely, independently (from home)
- Ability to travel for a multiple day team meeting in Texas, at least quarterly
- Access to a phone, computer, scanner, printer and other basic office equipment for business
purposes at home office - Stable, high speed internet access
Hiring: Finance Director
Experience required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance
- 5+ years Texas charter school administrative experience
- 5+ years in management experience
- CSBOC certification, within 90 days of hire
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- A can-do, team oriented personality
- Exceptional customer service skills
- Superior written and verbal communication skills
- Effective time-management and task-management skills
- Fluency in spreadsheet creation and analysis
- Fluency in spreadsheet creation and analysis
