School Leader Manager

Job title: School Leader Manager

Company: KIPP NYC Public Schools

Job description: Company DescriptionAbout KIPP Texas Public SchoolsKIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 57 public charter, open-enrollment, pre-k-12 schools educating nearly 34,000 students across Austin, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Together with families and communities, our mission is to 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.Founded in Houston in 1994, and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism in our classrooms, in our offices, and in the communities we serve is unwavering. We are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join our Team and Family and champion equity, chase excellence, persist with purpose, bring joy, and help us rise together.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 280 schools, nearly 15,000 educators, and 175,000 students and alumni.Job DescriptionAbout the RoleThe Deputy Head of Schools (DHOS) is responsible for the overall quality of school programming and maintains a laser-focus on continually increasing the number of students who thrive in and graduate from the college of their choice. They pursue this work through excellent management and development of a cohort of school leaders, and collaboration cross-organizationally with other development, operations, technology, talent, curriculum, and finance leaders. The DHOS reports to the Head of Schools and serves as an integral member of the Regional KIPP Texas academic leadership team, which is responsible for driving the overall direction and strategy for the region. This is an ideal opportunity for a dynamic and visionary organizational leader with significant team leadership and school improvement experience to play a critical role in expanding and shaping a premier K-12 charter management organization committed to supporting students to graduate college and succeed in school and life.Key Responsibilities and DutiesLead KIPP TX’s School Leaders

• Manager, supervise, and evaluate a cohort of PK3-12 school leaders to drive towards school improvement initiatives and regional results.
• Champion KIPP TX core values and build a community of team and family members dedicated to achievement, inclusion and belongingness.
• Collaborate with the Regional Superintendent and Talent Team to hire school leaders and assistant principals.
• Cultivate school leaders leadership competencies in academics, school culture, people management and team leadership talent through leveraging coaching and professional learning opportunities.
• Nurture a healthy school leadership pipeline and engage in regional and organization succession planning efforts.

Build Academically Excellent and Joyful Schools

• Support school leaders to internalize and implement KIPP TX’s academic and school culture strategy within and across school campuses.
• Facilitate annual planning processes, including master schedule development, with a cohort of school leaders in alignment with regional and state-wide goals.
• Organize and implement mechanisms to monitor progress towards short and long term goals and initiatives.
• Develop a deep understanding of KIPP TX’s high – quality instructional materials and facilitate school leaders capacity for strong implementation at their respective school campuses.
• Examine student learning and culture data within and across schools to identify school and cohort priorities.
• Collaborate with regional leadership and the state-wide academics and operations departments to implement initiatives aligned to school, cohort, and state-wide priorities.
• Champion emerging bilinguals, students with IEPs and 504s to receive exceptional services and supports, in compliance with state and federal regulations.
• Supports the development of strong school operational systems and processes with a focus on data collection, scheduling, and Special Education programs and services.

Serve as member of Regional Leadership Team

• Participates in KIPP Texas regional leadership team to oversees implementation of short and long-term strategy to reach regional and state-wide goals.
• Partners with regional leadership to identify region-wide gaps to goals and responds with aligned interventions.
• Works with the School Support Partners team to ensure that all of the operations, technology, talent, and financial needs of the schools are met.
• Liaises with external stakeholders, community agencies, donors, and other third-party constituencies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree; Master’s degree in education or related field from an accredited college or university highly preferred
• 3 years of teaching experience with a record of results of leading students to significant academic growth.
• 5-10 years experience as a school leader leading schools serving a similar student population to KIPP Texas; experience leading school improvement preferred.
• 3-5 years experience managing school leaders, particularly in school transformation settings.
• Demonstrated success leading teams to accelerate progress for students in transformation settings.

Skills

• Demonstrated leadership with the ability to lead people and get results through work with others.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating strong prioritization, organization and follow-up skills.
• Demonstration of effective teaching and learning practices
• Excellent interpersonal, human relations, and stress and conflict management skills
• Excellent planning, goal setting, coordinating, problem analysis and decision-making skills
• Ability to facilitate and lead change initiatives and embrace innovation
• Enthusiasm to engage parents and community

Additional InformationWhat We Bring to the Table

• The starting point for the salary range for this position is commensurate upon experience and internal-equity.
• Competitive vacation and flexible paid time off (PTO) policies.
• Paid family leave.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with varying coverage for employees and their families, inclusive of virtual physician visits. High deductible health plan with HSA also offered.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Participates in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS).
• 457 Roth retirement plan option with KIPP matching contribution up to $1,200 a year. 403b plans also supported.
• KIPP also offers the following employee-paid benefits: legal plans, LifeLock identity protection, life insurance and disability insurance.
• Flexible spending account or high-yield HSA.

Physical Requirements

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.
• Considerable time spent at a desk using a computer/laptop.
• Attending conferences or training sessions.

Work Environment

• Reports to school site and/or regional central office Monday-Friday.
• Typical school environment with frequent interruptions.

Travel Requirements

• Daily travel required throughout region to schools sites.
• Some travel required to other KIPP TX regions for workshops, conferences, or meetings (20-30%)

KIPP provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or disability.

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Location: Houston, TX

Job date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 01:01:42 GMT

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