Job description
Company Description
About the Organization
KIPP Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 278 schools, nearly 16,500 educators, and nearly 190,000 students and alumni.
Our mission: Together with families and communities, we 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.
Our vision: Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.
The KIPP Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP public charter schools across the country. The KIPP Foundation helps to develop outstanding educators to lead KIPP schools; provides tools and resources for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas across KIPP and other public schools and organizations.
About Our Values:
Excellent Results for Students: We value results over effort and know that our work is not finished until all students thrive. We maintain high expectations for self, team, and students. We drive outcomes by operating with agility, removing barriers, differentiating support, and prioritizing student-centered solutions—especially for those at the margins.
Collective Impact: We are one team. We win together. We embody a one-team mindset by working collaboratively across teams, aligning goals, and leveraging the strengths of all teammates. We build trust-based relationships and ensure inclusive decision-making by engaging those closest to the work. We provide clarity through simple, repeatable systems and goals that enable transformational outcomes.
Courageous Action: Our belief in what we can achieve is unwavering, fueling our optimism and commitment to overcome any challenge. We demonstrate an unwavering belief in students’ potential and a commitment to addressing systemic inequities. We approach challenges with resilience, a solutions-focused mindset, and adaptability. We foster a psychologically safe environment centered on trust and accountability where feedback is encouraged. We leverage data to reflect on progress, own setbacks, celebrate successes, and continuously improve to maximize impact.
Job Description
About The Position
At KIPP Foundation, we are committed to creating world-class professional learning experiences for both KIPP Foundation and regional leaders. As Director of Formal Learning for Leadership Development, you will play a critical role in executing the KIPP Network’s annual Academic Program Strategy by designing and delivering high-impact professional learning that builds the leadership capacity of KIPP’s Executive Directors, Chief Schools & Academic Officers, and Principal Managers. This role also includes leading the planning and delivery of multi-day in-person and virtual professional development for KIPP Foundation staff. Ultimately, you will be responsible for ensuring participants of your formal learning experiences improve in their proficiency level for prioritized skills and for participants to experience improved outcomes as a result of their application of learning. Reporting directly to the Vice President of Leadership Development, you will collaborate with KIPP Foundation teams and regional partners to codify exemplary leadership practices, develop best-in-class adult learning content, and set a clear, rigorous bar for professional development excellence. The ideal candidate will bring a strong background in adult learning, a proven track record of results, and a deep commitment to educational equity and student impact.
Responsibilities
Regional Leader Formal Learning: You will design and execute an exemplary network leadership development arc of learning for KIPP Executive Directors, Chief Schools & Academic Officers, and Principal Managers, including:
Lead the annual planning and execution of a world-class network leadership development arc of learning and content scope and sequence that exemplifies excellence in design, delivery, and outcomes.
Develop highly engaging agendas, session content, and facilitation plans that reflect best-in-class adult learning and inspire leaders to translate learning into meaningful action.
Set, model, and uphold a rigorous bar for excellence in all aspects of session content and adult learning design to ensure transformative learning experiences.
Leverage data and stakeholder feedback to continuously elevate the quality, impact, and relevance of professional learning experiences.
Design content that meets the unique learning needs of KIPP Principal Managers, Executive Directors, and other key leaders, tightly aligned to regional priorities and implementation goals.
Serve as a key collaborator with program leads across Teaching & Learning, Office of the President, Talent, and Regions to align leadership development strategy.
KIPP Foundation Formal Learning: You will own the strategy, design, and execution of a comprehensive, outcomes-driven formal learning experience for KIPP Foundation staff, including:
Design, facilitate, and continuously improve multi-day in-person and virtual professional development experiences for KF staff that are grounded in adult learning best practices, aligned to KIPP’s Leadership Competency Model, and responsive to staff needs.
Co-lead the design of the Manager Development Learning Series with the Director of Talent Systems to ensure all KF staff receive consistent, high-quality development from their managers.
Collaborate with the Director of Talent Enablement to design and align the scope and sequence and arc of learning for leadership development at KIPP Foundation with the broader talent development life cycle and calendar.
Ensure strong systems for follow-up and application of learning to drive sustained impact from all professional development programming.
Qualifications
Skills and Mindsets
Mission and Student Focus: Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPP’s mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold KIPP’s core values (Focus on Excellent Results, Collective Impact, and Courageous Action)
Achievement and Outcomes Orientation: Demonstrated record of setting ambitious goals and achieving them with consistency. Invests in developing teammates’ skills and mindsets to address gaps in achieving team growth; determines what quantitative and qualitative data are most relevant to their goals and supports the team in creating and monitoring systems for collecting, reviewing, and acting upon data to drive outcomes; able to monitor progress, communicating status to the right stakeholders and adjusting plans and use of time to ensure systems are yielding desired outcomes.
Learning & Development Leadership: Advanced knowledge of adult learning principles and instructional design frameworks; capability to develop, implement, and evaluate comprehensive professional development programs that address varying learning styles and organizational needs.
Coaching: Well versed in coaching with an equity lens, responding to and initiating conversations about diversity, equity, belonging; skilled in supporting professionals in navigating power dynamics, disproportionalities, oppressive policies and in disrupting white supremacy culture in our organization.
Instructional Leadership: Highly skilled and experienced in leading the Internalization and Planning process, conducting Observation/Feedback meeting, providing real-time feedback, leading Weekly Data Meetings, setting academic goals and monitoring progress.
Effective Teaming & Stakeholder Management: Has the interpersonal, diplomatic, relationship building, and communications skills necessary to develop successful working relationships with diverse constituents to deliver results; evolves and adapts plans and approach with diverse stakeholders to drive results; excellent communication skills with an aptitude for translating complex information into a clear and persuasive narrative; convinces others by identifying benefits for all.
Process Management: Able to build and align goals and project plans with organization priorities; leverages relevant organizational processes and systems to execute work; can build and maintain knowledge management systems; effectively develops and codifies cross-team processes relevant to their team’s work that improve work quality and efficiency; uses data to drive process improvements in support of organizational priorities.
Experience and Qualifications
7+ years of work experience with creating and delivering formal learning systems in an organization with national reach.
3+ years of work experience as a principal manager or senior district leader role
Experience coaching principal managers highly preferred
Experience working in virtual environments with teammates across multiple time zones;
Familiarity with virtual learning platforms highly preferred
Additional Information
Work Conditions
Travel requirements: 20%
Full-time, Exempt role
Location
It is preferred, but not mandatory for this role to be based out of a KIPP Foundation office. This role also has the option of working from a remote office full-time. KIPP Foundation offices are in NYC and Chicago.
Compensation and Benefits
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, and relevant experience. The salary range for this position is $120,000 - $145,000. In addition, KIPP Foundation provides a variety of benefits to employees, including:
25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+).
100% paid parental leave
100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans.
Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program
Finance Security benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
KIPP Foundation embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the students and communities with whom we work and the world that’s around them. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
