Deputy Head of Schools
- Full-time
- Start Date: Immediate opening
- Department: Regional Support and Leadership
Company Description
KIPP Texas Public Schools is a nonprofit public charter school network, dedicated to preparing students in educationally underserved communities for college success and choice-filled lives. Today, KIPP Texas operates 59 public charter schools educating over 31,100 students across four regions – Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. KIPP Texas is part of the national KIPP network of 255 college-preparatory public charter schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia. KIPP schools are part of the free public school system and enrollment is open to all students. Nationwide, KIPP students complete four-year college at a rate of 36 percent, comparable to the national average for all students and approximately three times higher than the average of students from low-income families.
Job Description
The Opportunity
The Deputy Head of Schools 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 3-5 principals and collaboration cross-organizationally with other development, operations, technology, talent, curriculum, and finance leaders. The Deputy HOS reports to the HOS 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 all KIPP Texas programming. This is an ideal opportunity for a dynamic and visionary organizational leader with significant people management 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.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
I. Managerial Leadership and Team Development
Manages 3-5 school principals
Builds a strong, cohesive team culture that reflects core KIPP Texas values
Serves as a thought partner to direct reports as they lead their respective teams; coaches and supports direct reports to address their key roles and responsibilities
Works in collaboration with the Regional Superintendent and Talent Team to hire school principals and assistant principals and execute the organization’s talent strategy in schools including providing best-practice coaching and development, annual goal setting, and succession planning
Plans and implements professional development for school principals and assistant principals
Supervises principals in the creation and implementation of effective professional development opportunities for their staff
Completes bi-annual performance evaluations of direct reports
Supports the development of assistant principals and successor leaders across all schools
II. Educational Leadership & Academic Support
Work with principals to implement the academic strategies, all aspects of the talent strategies, and support principals to implement their school priorities in alignment with KIPP Texas vision, mission, and strategic plan
Collaborates with co-Heads of Schools and centralized Academic Team members to implement academic priorities
Works with principals to develop and implement long-term plans for curriculum, assessment, and school improvement
Ensures that the principals have a clear plan for improvement of instruction and school culture
Engages principals in weekly academic program analysis and progress monitoring
Manages long-term and annual school planning
Supports the development of strong school operational systems and processes with a focus on data collection, scheduling, and Special Education programs and services
III. KIPP Texas Leadership
Participates in KIPP Texas academic leadership team that oversees the strategy for all KIPP Texas programming
Works with KIPP Texas academic leadership to develop a vision and comprehensive long-term plan for the design of the schools
Recommends to the KIPP Texas Regional Superintendent system-wide goals, monitors and reports back to the Regional Superintendent on the progress toward achieving the goals
Works with the central office 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
KIPP Texas candidates will have the following:
3-5 years of experience as a principal in a high performing school serving a similar student population to KIPP Texas
An understanding of the specific, unique characteristics of public charter schools, Texas-specific knowledge a plus
A proven track record of success managing high-performing school leaders to achieve ambitious goals; previous experience supporting the full array of responsibilities and challenges faced by school principals preferred but not required
Outstanding leadership and management skills, particularly as it relates to building teams, working through others, promoting collaboration, managing conflict, goal setting, and holding people accountable
An entrepreneurial spirit and demonstrated success in building a program, department or organization
The flexibility needed to accommodate the breadth and depth of responsibilities and priorities
Outstanding written, speaking, and organizational skills including excellence in backwards planning long-term goals, accountability and progress monitoring systems
Ability to interact with a broad range of stakeholders with different interests and needs
Deep commitment to improving the lives of students from low-income communities
Additional Information
Compensation and Benefits:
In addition to a competitive salary scale, a part of KIPP Texas’ competitive benefits options, KIPP offers all employees an $0 HMO plan for the employee only. In addition to our $0 plan, KIPP provides a $600 employer contribution towards a Health Savings Account and a variety of other supplemental benefits such as Dental, Vision, Short and Long-Term Disability, Pet Insurance, Life, etc.