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.

The Regional Director of Academic Health is a key member of the Houston Regional Leadership Team who oversees and progress monitors the regions annual planning, goal-setting, drives strategic growth planning and execution. The Regional Director of Academic Health works closely with the Houston Regional Superintendent, and leads key strategic and logistical projects for the organization. The Regional Director of Academic Health must excel at building relationships across a wide variety of constituencies, managing multiple priorities, driving results, program design and management. The Regional Director of Academic Health is a critical thought partner and reports to the Houston Regional Superintendent.

You know you are successful if: 

• You communicate and embody KIPP Texas’ culture and core values
• You lead with the highest ethics, build relationships based on trust, and inspire and motivate others to achieve rigorous goals
• You lead efforts to build best-in-class academically excellent schools that provide powerful, personalized learning that is engaging and joyful for all Big and Little KIPPsters
• You partner with the School Support Partners (SSP) Team to meet all operational, financial, and other non-academic goals, ensuring a sustainable organization at all levels;
• You support in executing  KIPP Texas multi-year Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion roadmap that moves us along on the anti-racism framework

Key Responsibilities

• Co-lead Houston regional annual planning, goal-setting process 
  • Work in collaboration with the Regional Superintendent and Regional Leadership Team to identify and create scope of annual region-wide initiatives. 
  • Manage all aspects of the planning process to ensure that operating plans and related goals are aligned and integrated throughout the region and organization. 
  • Coordinate across the region to identify common trends in priorities across Houston schools, identify opportunities to build collaboration and common work across schools, and potential regional professional development/action learning projects to create, share and capture knowledge and expertise. 
  • Lead the region’s progress monitoring efforts towards regional and departmental/school goals throughout the year. 
  • Work across KIPP School Support Partners departments to ensure effective and proactive communication with schools.
  • Work with Regional Superintendent to constantly assess and provide solutions towards improving organizational effectiveness within the region.
  • In collaboration with the Regional Director of Data-Driven Leadership, ensure that dashboards with timely and relevant information are available and utilized to monitor progress and inform decision-making.   
  • Collaborate with the executive assistant to the Regional Superintendent to ensure regional priorities are accurately reflected on the Regional Superintendent’s calendar.
• Drive strategic growth planning and execution of strategy 
  • Work collaboratively with the KTX Growth Team to support key projects in Houston's growing schools
• Provide guidance and support to School Leaders during school crisis
• Engage School Leaders, SSP and other stakeholders, as necessary. 
• Manage staff preparation and materials for effective Board meetings.  
• Serve as a member of the Regional Leadership Team (Houston Senior Leadership Team)
  • Plan and facilitate effective and efficient Regional Leadership Team staff meetings, both tactical and strategy. 
  • Support the planning and execution of school leader training and professional development of Houston school leaders 
  • Drive accountability across the Regional Leadership Team; follow up on decisions and commitments made by the Regional Leadership Team to ensure implementation. 
  • Sets regional directive for change efforts, catalyzing Regional Leadership Team to achieve change at scale. 
  • Represent KIPP Texas in external meetings, as appropriate.  
  • Serve as a liaison between Houston School Leaders and legal counsel for KIPP Texas when legal guidance is needed
  • Lead key strategic analysis and projects as assigned by the Regional Superintendent
  • Evaluate strategic options and recommend a course of action. 
  • Promote and model the rigorous use of data analysis and experience to shape strategy and decision-making. 

Education

Bachelor’s degree required

Skills and Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience as a principal in a high performing school serving a similar student population to KIPP Texas
• KIPP Texas Houston experience preferred
• An understanding of the specific, unique characteristics of public charter schools, Texas-specific knowledge preferred
• 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 
• 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

Compensation:

Salary is based on years of experience, degree of education, and level of expertise.

As a full time KIPP Texas employee you are eligible to participate in all KIPP Texas’ benefit plans. KIPP Texas offers a robust variety of benefits choices with competitive rates, including medical, dental, and vision options, as well as life insurance and disability plans.

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

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 is spent at a desk using a computer/laptop
• Attending conferences or training sessions 

Work Environment:  

• Typical office environment with frequent interruptions