Founded in Houston in 1994, KIPP has become a national leader in the movement to provide all children with access to an exemplary education and the academic and character skills necessary to thrive in and graduate from college, positively impact their communities, and lead choice-filled lives.

In 2018, KIPP schools in Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio joined forces to become KIPP Texas Public Schools, a nonprofit public charter school network, accelerating student academic outcomes and impact more students across Texas. As a unified, statewide organization, KIPP Texas can more effectively leverage the talent, resources, instructional expertise, financial strength, and advocacy in the public charter school movement, in order to have an even larger impact with educationally underserved communities across the state.

In the 2019-2020 school year, KIPP Texas Public Schools will educate more than 29,000 students in 55 schools, placing the district among the top 50 largest in the state. KIPP Texas will continue to prove what is possible for its students, communities, and state, with a goal of growing to educate 100,000 students and achieving a 75% college graduation rate for alumni.

KIPP Texas is grounded in five Core Values as its cultural “North Star”: 

As a Team & Family, we:

Champion Equity

Chase Excellence

Persist with Purpose

Bring Joy

Rise Together

KIPP Texas is part of the national KIPP network of 224 college-preparatory public charter schools educating early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school students. 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.

You can see all our job opportunities at https://kipptexas.org/join-our-team/.

The  Child Nutrition Field Supervisor  is responsible for supporting school operations in the areas of food service, policy and procedures, and the management of the Child Nutrition Programs. The Field Supervisor acts as the liaison between our Food Service Management Company and our School Support Staff.  This role is also responsible for the coordination, with other KIPP personnel, of district-wide initiatives as identified by the Director of Child Nutrition.   

The Field Supervisor for Child Nutrition position furthers the mission of KIPP Texas by providing healthy meals, nutrition education resources and activities for students and faculty.    

Key Responsibilities

• Know, understand and assist in implementing the requirements of the Child Nutrition Program.

• Ability to communicate well with parents, school/program staff, vendors, and the general public.

• Provide software system support and updates 

• Provide first-line technical support for kitchen staff

• Assist with Program (NSLP, SBP, Snack, Supper) implementation and compliance oversight

• Review and assist the process of processing free and reduced lunch applications following the United States Department of Agriculture and Texas Department of Agriculture guidelines for meal eligibility and reimbursement of federal funds. 

• Complete on-site inspections to verify adherence to federal, state, local and district standards regarding food production, health code requirements, food safety, service and quality.

• Communicates with the Regional Child Nutrition Manager on a continual basis the findings, problems and successes observed in individual schools and documents findings

• Evaluate the use of HACCP procedures, organizational management, and all other aspects of daily kitchen performance.

• Coordinate maintenance work requests; log and track work orders by date and locations.

• Attend professional growth activities to keep abreast of innovative techniques for food service operations.

• Establish positive working relationships with district administrative leadership, head of school, school staff and all other KIPP Texas Public Schools departments.

• Other duties as assigned.

Skills and Qualifications

• Above average communication skills.

• Must be self motivated and have the ability to work with little or no supervision.

• Ability to adapt to change.

• Maintain emotional control under stress.

• Proficient use of computers, different communication equipment, and other common office equipment. 

• Work with frequent interruptions.

• Reliable mode of transportation. 

• Competent in Microsoft Word, Excel, Works, etc.

Preferred Education/Experience:

• Three (3) years of professional work  experience in food and hospitality related role

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of work/school experience.  

• Experience in school-based Child Nutrition a strong plus

• Experience in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and fast-growing organization a strong plus

• Must be able to adopt new technology quickly and be very proficient with Microsoft and other productivity tools (BlueJeans, Slack, Google Drive)

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.