Senior Vice President Regional And School Support

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 275 schools, nearly 16,500 educators, and more than 175,000 students and alumni.

Our mission: Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose—college, career, and beyond—so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.

Our vision: Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.

The KIPP Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP schools across the country. The KIPP Foundation trains and develops outstanding educators to lead KIPP public schools; provides tools, resources and training for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas across KIPP and other public schools and organization.

About Our Values:

Focus on Excellent Results: Winning for Children and Families – Denying people of color and people experiencing economic hardship excellent outcomes from public organizations is longstanding and only perpetuates inter-generational racism and poverty. We pursue excellence at a world-class level because our children and families deserve nothing less. We focus on excellent results, generated by excellent daily action, because intentions alone will not enable our children to lead fulfilling lives.

Courageous Action: We do Hard Things All day, Every Day – Our work is centered on reversing the impact of generational racism and poverty on children of color from low-income families. This work is inherently challenging and will never be easy. Our mission requires that, through concerted action, we embrace, confront, and overcome adversity.

Resilient Solutions Focus – Find a Way or Make One – We doggedly pursue solutions to every problem we confront. For every problem, we find or invent a solution. We are smart, optimistic, and thoughtful in crafting solutions, but also timely, recognizing that our children only have one life to live. We embrace a growth mindset, believing that simply because we have not achieved our ultimate aims today does not mean that we cannot tomorrow. We chase the continuous improvement of ourselves, our interpersonal relationships, our teams, and our organization.

About the Position

The Senior Vice President (SVP), Region and School Support leads the holistic vision for KIPP School Support for all 27 KIPP regions and oversees the KIPP School Support Team, which is inclusive of four Vice Presidents of School Support and the Vice President of School Culture Support. This role is responsible for ensuring comprehensive and holistic support is in place to drive KIPP’s aligned instructional strategy, inclusive of a common curriculum, a shared assessment, and a common vision for instructional excellence. The SVP, Region and School Support, is comfortable working across all aspects of school management and is equally literate in both instruction and culture contents. Additionally, the SVP collaborates with the KIPP Schools Leadership team, including the Chief Schools Officer, Chief of Staff, and other Vice Presidents to lead student growth and achievement network wide. The SVP, Region and School Support, reports directly to the Chief of Schools.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

Vision Setting

• Develop the K-12 School Support vision for all KIPP schools, including the execution of site and School visits, integration of Excellence Habits, and monitoring of progress and on-going support in between touch points.

• Identify opportunities to improve current support practices, in collaboration with KIPP Foundation and regional academic leaders using rigorous student growth and achievement data

• Invest KF and regional leaders in national academic and student success goals and oversee implementation plans to ensure student success

School and Region Support

• Oversee implementation of the School Support Team for all KIPP schools, including K-4, 5-8, and 9-12 grade bands, in collaboration with TLS team members, Regional and School-based academic leaders

• Manage and lead Vice Presidents of School Support responsible for a cohort of KIPP regions and their success in implementing One KIPP.

Team Management

• Lead the School Support Team, including Directors of School Support and Directors of School Culture Support including all hiring decisions and promotion criteria

• Manage the Vice Presidents of School Supportand School Culture Support to ensure the growth and development of all team members and cohesive collaboration across all KIPP regions, including regular team meetings and semi-annual individual performance reviews

• Collaborate and plan with KIPP Foundation and regional leadership team members to coordinate implementation of cohesive and collaborate School Support across all teams.

Professional Development

• Oversee strategic coaching and support to regional Chief School Officers, Principal Managers, and principals to address student data and student outcomes, including regular support meetings with Regional and School leaders

• Oversee national professional development to ensure implementation of unified curriculum and best practices to improve classroom instruction and drive student achievement

• Design and implement national professional development and professional growth strategy for teachers and leaders

Skills

• Mission & Student Focus: Demonstrated commitment to education equity; a passion for KIPP’s mission; desire and ability to uphold KIPP’s values (Focus on Excellent Results, Courageous Action, and Resilient Solutions Focus)

• Team Leadership & Talent Development: Set a tone and culture that enables team leadership to maximize individual strengths and address areas for development; foster a talent culture that plans for succession and retention of key players and communicates an employee value proposition to promote performance, sustainability, and engagement.

• Relentless Focus on Solutions and Results: Set culturally competent and ambitious goals with team to achieve measurable outcomes; create an environment in which all systems and processes support high levels of efficiency to ensure that chief priorities are accomplished successfully; champions the ongoing spirit of improvement and professional growth across the organization while holding teams accountable to results.

• Instructional Fluency in K-12 Content Areas: Strong K-12 instructional and coaching expertise including deep content knowledge in math or literacy, general pedagogical knowledge, knowledge of culturally relevant teaching practices and familiarity with current research.

• Process & Project Management: Can effectively manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders to deadlines while balancing multiple short- and long-term projects; demonstrates disciplined, independent, and innovative approach to translating strategy into priorities and project plans, even in unstructured spaces; continually applies strong attention to detail to the execution of all projects and constantly looks for ways to improve and to scale learning quickly.

• Stakeholder Management and Influence to Impact: Has the interpersonal, diplomatic, relationship building, and communications skills necessary to develop successful working relationships with diverse constituents, including region school leaders and senior leaders; ability to engage and drive senior leadership and key stakeholders toward target outcomes without direct authority; can effectively share complex information and translate for end users; responds promptly to concerns and ensures that stakeholders are aware of actions that are being taken and explains the rationale for decisions and/or outcomes to the stakeholder

• Critical Thinking and Strong Judgement: Ability to problem solve and to navigate and lead through complexity; effectively leverages data effectively for strategic decision-making and driving improvement; can make courageous yet necessary decisions in the interest of students and families with experience working with and in the interests of communities of color;

• Cultural Competence & Commitment to Equity: A proactive cultural leader and team player who thrives on collaboration and learning; can effectively collaborate with teammates across lines of difference.

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelors’ degree required; Master’s degree in education or related education field, preferred

• Minimum 10 years exemplary teaching experience with strong student achievement results

• Minimum 5 years of school leadership with strong student achievement results

• Minimum 10 years exemplary coaching and leading effective professional development for adults

• Minimum 10 years effective team management and leadership experience

• Prior experience as a Chief Schools Officer/Principal Manager/Superintendent or similar network Principal Management role preferred,

• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to develop productive working relationships with multiple stakeholders across the organization

• Meticulous attention to detail with an ability to produce high quality work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

• Ability to exercise discretion and judgment with the handling of highly sensitive and confidential information

Work Conditions

• Travel requirements: Willingness to travel 40% of the time

• Full-time exempt role

Location

It is preferred, but not mandatory for this role to be based out of a KIPP Foundation office. This role also offers the option of working from a remote office full-time. KIPP Foundation offices are in NYC and Chicago.

Compensation and Benefits.

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, and relevant experience. The salary range for this position is $240,000-$283,000. In addition, KIPP Foundation provides a variety of benefits to employees, including:

• 25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+).

• 100% paid parental leave

• 100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans.

• Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program

• Finance Security benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts

KIPP Foundation embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the students and communities with whom we work and the world that around them. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.