Organizational Overview

In 2020, KIPP Eastern North Carolina (KIPP ENC) and KIPP Charlotte took the first steps to begin to merge to form KIPP North Carolina Public Schools (KIPP NC). Starting in July of 2021, KIPP NC will be a network of eight high-performing, college-preparatory public charter schools providing an academically rigorous and joyous school experience to more than 3,500 students in grades K-12 in Charlotte, Durham, Gaston, and Halifax. Additionally, KIPP NC will support several thousand alumni on their journey to and through high school, college, and career.   

KIPP NC will build on a rich tradition of academic excellence and relentless fight for social justice present from the founding of both KIPP ENC and KIPP Charlotte. KIPP ENC is the second oldest KIPP region in the nation. In its 20 years of operation, KIPP ENC has been a cornerstone for students and families in rural Gaston and Halifax, operating two primary schools, two middle schools, and one high school. Over the past five years, it grew to serve even more students by opening up a middle school in Durham, an urban center in the center part of the state. KIPP Charlotte, which grew out of the strong traditions and academics of KIPP ENC, has supported students and families for the past 13 years, operating one primary school and one middle school in the largest city in North Carolina.

KIPP North Carolina will build upon the successes and experiences of KIPP ENC and KIPP Charlotte to provide inclusive school environments and an educational program that will enable our students to lead full lives and equip graduates to be future leaders and agents of change in North Carolina and beyond. KIPP NC also will continue to engage in direct, anti-racist work, and it will contribute meaningfully to the dismantling of structures of inequality within our organization, schools, and classrooms. KIPP NC will be committed to expanding our efforts to embed anti-racism in all of our activities and engagements within our classrooms and schools, across our organization, and throughout the State of North Carolina. All of this will be in a tireless effort to create classrooms that are homeplaces for our students, places where they feel safe, loved, validated, seen, and heard, places where all their beautiful identities will be affirmed and celebrated, and places where they will learn the academic knowledge and skills needed for college, career, and beyond.

The Opportunity

The founding Director of Data & Assessment will help the Chief Academic Officer, Academics Team, the Leadership Team of KIPP NC, and school leaders understand and improve the outcomes and health of the KIPP NC network and its schools. Reporting to the Chief Academic Officer, the Director of Data & Assessment will conduct critical analyses of KIPP NC’s outcomes data, generating actionable insights and recommendations for organizational leadership and KIPP NC school leaders. The Director of Data & Assessment will elevate data beyond the purely descriptive, building a compelling narrative that will drive and improve impact across the KIPP NC network. The ideal candidate is a systems thinker with exceptional analytical skills and the ability to tell a solutions-oriented story with data. They are motivated to build relationships and collaborate on cross-functional teams to address mission-critical demands for data analysis that impact policy, practice, and student outcomes.

This is an ideal opportunity for a dynamic and visionary organizational leader to play a critical role in building and shaping a premier K-12 charter management organization committed to supporting all our students to graduate college and succeed in school and life.

Key Responsibilities

Team Development

• Helps to build a strong, cohesive team culture that reflects the core values of KIPP NC
• Works in collaboration with Academics Team colleagues and school-based teams to provide exceptional reports and resources to principals and schools
• With instructional team colleagues, helps plan and implement professional development and data sessions for school principals, assistant principals, Directors of School Operations, and teachers
• Serves as a thought leader on cross-team projects, and support KIPP NC’s innovation efforts
• Contributes to the annual planning process for KIPP NC by prioritizing assessment and insight work, identifying buckets of continuing and new work, and identifying interdependencies
• Leads goal-setting and analytical efforts to determine metrics related to KIPP NC’s strategic plan and Visions for 2025 and 2030
• Spearheads efforts to understand and assess the impact of new initiatives
• Presents analytics and insights to all members of the KIPP NC community

Identifying Insights through Data

• Develops and leads KIPP NC’s agenda around K-12 assessment
• Builds out a systematic approach to response to data, progress monitors its effectiveness, and collaborates with leaders to drive results through this approach; uses our academic achievement data to determine which grades and subjects need prioritized support; creates data-based reteach materials for select grades and subjects; develops instructional materials and training resources to drive results in these grades and subjects, based on standards data
• Conducts analysis on all assessment data, including defining high priority research questions, conducting the analysis, and presenting the work in visually compelling and easy to understand ways
• Prepares and delivers regular reports to keep key stakeholders informed about student achievement, including regional colleagues, school leaders, teachers, the KIPP NC Board, and key external partners
• Partners with Operations and IT colleagues to design, develop, and test achievement-focused reports; develops and maintains a KIPP NC dashboard; collaborates with KIPP NC colleagues to determine dashboard strategy and metrics
• With School Operations colleagues, develops systems for conducting, analyzing, and reporting out on school-based assessments (i.e., Interim Assessments and curricula-based assessments)
• Intensively collaborates with Academics Team, school leaders, and teachers to help develop reporting strategy, priorities, and roadmaps 
• Leads efforts to create new reports, including collecting stakeholder input, developing and refining requirements, partnering with IT on developing a plan to ensure data structure is aligned with the vision, and building new reports in whatever system is recommended for KIPP NC
• Acts as a key point of contact for the State of NC around all things testing, assessment, and EOGs/EOCs, potentially acting as the sole point of contact, replacing DSOs on required calls and turn-keying the information as appropriate
• Understands, internalizes, and stays abreast of the state’s approach to measuring student proficiency and growth data; serves as KIPP NC’s in-house expert on accountability measures and school report card scores; develops and drives approach to educating the region on how those scores are calculated and ways to improve them

KIPP North Carolina Leadership

• Participates in KIPP NC academic leadership team that oversees the strategy for all KIPP North Carolina programming
• Works with KIPP NC academic leadership to develop a vision and comprehensive long-term plan for the design of integrated, scaffolded K-12 schools
• Recommends to the KIPP NC Chief Academic Officer system-wide goals; monitors and reports back to the Chief Academic Officer on the progress toward achieving those goals

KIPP NC’s Director of Data & Assessment candidates will have the following:

• A deep commitment to the mission of KIPP NC and an unwavering belief in the potential of all our students
• An unwavering commitment to anti-racism, equity, and inclusion
• A strong desire to collaborate with school leaders and Central Office teammates in service to a new KIPP region growing out of two exceptionally strong ones
• A love of data, a B.A. in a related field, and 5+ years of related work experience
• Strong experience in quantitative analysis and quantitative data processing and management
• Expertise in writing SQL queries and other statistical software; proficiency in Tableau (likely the platform of choice for KIPP NC) preferred
• Excellent attention to detail and constant focus on data quality; excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate research and analysis findings to a range of non-research audiences
• 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
• Ability to interact with a broad range of stakeholders with different interests and needs
• Possess a deep commitment to both racial equity and improving the lives of kids from low-income communities; experience working within predominantly Black, Brown, and/or low-income communities
• Understanding and willingness to work in both rural and urban communities, including exhibiting resourcefulness and willingness to travel up to five hours within North Carolina multiple days per week based on need
• Must live in North Carolina

Salary is based on years of experience, degree of education, and level of expertise.  A competitive benefits package is offered. 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.