Company Description
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.
Job Description
About The Position
The KIPP Foundation is hiring four Vice Presidents of Regional School Support (RSS) who are responsible for driving a national One KIPP School vision within a portfolio of KIPP regions. In this position, you will have an opportunity to work deeply with a subset of KIPP school and regional leaders to leverage continuous improvement methods to drive specific student outcomes within the One KIPP Priorities. Each Vice President will manage a team of school Support Directors who work directly with Principals and Principal Managers in driving academics and culture across each region. They will also take on a portfolio of principal managers to whom they will provide direct support. The Vice President of School Support is a perfect position for a seasoned school systems leader, most likely a former Principal Supervisor, with a proven track record of driving results through others and who is now ready to make a wider impact on student outcomes across KIPP's national school network.
The Vice Presidents of RSS will report to the Senior Vice President of School Support and will be an integral member of the Schools Team driving One KIPP practices in the network and working closely with leaders to determine what it takes to replicate these practices elsewhere. The Vice President of School Support is in the business of building capacity - both in the specific individual leaders that they work closely with and via systems and structures in the schools and regions as a whole - that ensure an equitable and high-quality learning experience for all students. This individual will need to be able to build strong relationships with network leaders and be able to build credibility with key stakeholders by learning the needs or regions and schools and delivering differentiated support that meets them where they are.
Responsibilities:
Team Leadership and Management

• Manages and coaches Senior Directors of School Support to provide excellent, in-region extended support to all schools in each assigned portfolio.
• Builds a strong, cohesive team culture that reflects core KIPP Foundation values
• Supervises regional leaders in continually aligning school programs with the mission, beliefs, priorities, and initiatives of One KIPP.

Leads and Develops Towards Excellence

• Models excellent coaching practices for principals and principal managers that balances supporting leaders development with accountability for outcomes.
• Fluently leverages core tools - including our One KIPP Leadership Competency Model and Principal/Principal Manager Core Skills - to drive the development of leaders on the moves that lead to student results.
• Follows through reliably on the adoption and mastery of leadership practices in working with principals and principal managers.

Progress Monitoring and Ensuring Excellence

• Monitors the student achievement results of key agreed upon measures across their portfolio of regions and the regions of their direct reports.
• Monitors the adult actions (adoption and mastery of key practices) that yields those student outcomes to inform opportunities for course correction, shared learning, or bright spot identification and dissemination.
• Collaborates with other VPs of School Support to share bright spots, challenges, and informs KIPP School Team leadership about the programs, practices, and challenges within your school portfolio.
• Collaborates with Teaching & Learning team to share key data and work together on the best course of action for their portfolio of principals and principal managers.
• Recommends to the Deputy Chief of Schools of Region and School Support system-wide goals, and monitors and reports back to the Chief of Schools, regularly, on the progress toward achieving the goals

Qualifications
Skills

• Mission and Student Focus : 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.
• 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;
• 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.
• 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 & Qualifications

• 5 years of exemplary teaching experience with strong student achievement results
• 5 years exemplary school leadership and meeting student outcome goals.
• 5 years of coaching senior leaders (i.e. school leader managers, senior network leaders, etc.) to meet outcomes.
• 10 years effective team management and leadership experience
• Bachelors' degree required; Master's degree in education or related education field, preferred

Additional 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 $190,000-$235,000. 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.