KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 59 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 Texas is part of the national KIPP network of 255 college-preparatory public charter schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia. 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 communities.

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

The Opportunity
The Director of Talent Management will lead key talent short and long term projects in service of designing strategic talent systems, processes and protocols that are effective and efficient as KIPP Texas grows to serve 100k KIPPsters. The Director of Talent Management will partner with key stakeholders within and outside of the Talent team to develop a vision for success, a prioritized plan and timeline for the work and progress monitoring to goals, and the systems, processes and tools that will support improved talent management organization-wide.

Key Duties

• In collaboration with Senior Talent leaders, lead short cycle special projects across the talent landscape
  • Develop vision, scope and project plan for high need talent projects in collaboration with key stakeholders and talent teammates
  • Maintain and monitor progress to goals for projects
  • Pivoting project plan as needed based on progress to goal and organizational landscape
  • Analyze project data for evaluation of results
  • Present results and key findings to stakeholders including executive leadership
  • Develop recommendations based on project findings and provide recommendations to key stakeholders, including executive leadership
• Develop year-over-year improvements to internal talent management processes
  • Prioritize processes based on organizational landscape and need
    • Analyze data from across the talent landscape to prioritize
  • Develop vision, scope and project plan for improvements to internal talent management processes in collaboration with key stakeholders and talent teammates
  • Maintain and monitor progress to goals for projects
  • Pivoting project plan as needed based on progress to goal and organizational landscape
  • Analyze project data to evaluate results
  • Present results and key findings to stakeholders including executive leadership
  • Develop tools and resources for improved full cycle talent practices, with a particular emphasis on key priority roles at the central office (SSP) and school levels
• Lead yearly talent management practices for key priority roles including but not limited to: retention analysis, best practice training and progress monitoring; talent reviews and subsequent action steps
• Team Management: As needed, build a results-driven, mission-oriented team culture for direct reports through establishing a clear vision for success; hire, build, develop and retain strong performers; demonstrate clear, concise direction, feedback, and coaching; hold direct reports accountable for meeting targets and adjusting course as necessary in pursuit of goals.
• Team Leader: serve as a key leader on the greater Talent Strategy team; collaborate with team leaders to enhance state-wide strategy and evolve in service of the pursuit of 100,000 KIPPsters served in KIPP schools state-wide.
•  Relationship management: Manage key partnership relationships with internal partners in service of managing strong talent for KIPP Texas and building and sustaining talent systems for the organization
• Drive Results: ensure projects and goals effectively improve talent management practices, systems and processes year over year in effort to design scaled talent systems for KIPP Texas’ planned growth

Additional Responsibilities and Duties

• Provide exemplary support to clients, including SSP leaders, school management teams and Regional Superintendents.    
• Serves as an organizational leader on talent strategy and the work force market, providing insight and expertise to strategic planning as well as organizational values-driven initiatives and plans.
• Operate with exemplary team spirit with eagerness to demonstrate flexibility and contribute to the overall needs of the team as they arise.

Skills

• Communication: Clear, concise, compelling communication
• Professionalism: Operate with professional demeanor in even the most challenging situations. Work with teammates, leaders, regional stakeholders, and hiring managers in a way that demonstrates confidence, initiative, and dedication to meeting commitments. Expresses professional presence with external stakeholders in a way that exemplifies KIPP’s values in person, verbally, in writing, on social media, and at events.
• Critical thinking: Ability to analyze data and make strategic project adjustments. 
• Organizational ability and accuracy: excellent attention to detail in written communication, exemplary calendar management, commitment to data fidelity, and consistency in executing next steps.
• Management acumen: Ability to hire, develop, grow, coach and retain staff. Ability to simultaneously ensure high performance and inspire satisfaction. Ability to manage through layers. Comfort delivering affirming and corrective feedback
• Impact and influence: Ability to impact and influence stakeholders to action based on compelling recommendations based in data
• Systems thinking: Ability to develop problem statements, projects, analyze data and provide recommendations at an enterprise level that designs talent management systems to appropriate scale

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 3+ years of people management experience
• 5+ years of talent experience in relevant field (talent development, talent acquisition, human resources, or management of people and talent work in related field)

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.