Director of Finance and Operations

Ms. Patricia Connolly currently serves Chartiers Valley School District as the Director of Finance and Operations and has over 30 years of experience in school finance and human resources.  

Ms. Connolly has worked at all levels of financial management, most recently as the Director of Business Services for the Midwestern Intermediate Unit where she oversaw the organization's fiscal affairs within the framework of Board policies and PA School Law.  Ms. Connolly previously worked as the Assistant Director of Finance of the Allegheny Intermediate Unit as well. 

Ms. Connolly has a background in Human Resources, having served as the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education's Personnel Specialist.  She has also served as an adjunct professor of finance at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Education. 

Ms. Connolly earned a Master's in Education from Wilkes University and holds a Master of Arts degree in Human Resource Administration from St. Francis College of Loretto.  She completed her bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 

Further, Ms. Connolly is a certified school business administrator and holds a PCSBA through PASBO.