School Leader - High School - Camden

Company Description

About KIPP New Jersey

KIPP New Jersey is part of the nationally recognized “Knowledge Is Power Program” network of free, open-enrollment, college-preparatory public schools dedicated to preparing students for success in college and in life. In 2002, 80 fifth graders walked through the doors of our first middle school in Newark, New Jersey and KIPP New Jersey has since grown to educate 8,135 students in grades K-12 across 17 schools in Newark and Camden. More than 90% of KIPP New Jersey students currently qualify for free or reduced meals. 

By 2025, KIPP New Jersey will provide a world-class education to over 10,300 students across fifteen schools in Newark and five in Camden. To learn more, visit www.kippnj.org.

Job Description

KIPP High School in Camden, NJ is looking for their next School Leader (building principal). The School Leader’s primary responsibilities are to drive outcomes for students and to develop talent within the building and for the network. We expect our School Leaders to focus 75% of their time on instructional leadership, specifically focused on instruction, talent development and hiring and retention.  We also expect our School Leaders to build lasting and sustainable organizations by developing strong internal capacity in teaching and leading, a pipeline of future School Leaders for their school and the network, and creating systems for the ongoing development of school staff. Good leaders create good leaders, and we ultimately define good leadership by the results leaders get for kids. Finally, we expect our School Leaders to perform their role through an equity lens, with an eye toward outcomes for traditionally underrepresented students and staff members.

We expect to hold final interviews for this role in April 2024. We are seeking candidates who could start in the role no later than July 1, 2024.

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

Instructional Leadership

• Drives and owns all instructional results for all students
• Strong content knowledge: knows essential content, rigor of standards, and highly effective teaching strategies well enough to establish and maintain a standard and coach it; is able to readily adapt to leverage resources across less-known or more nuanced subject areas
• Develops the capacity of leaders in driving results and developing teacher/leader capacity through  observations, walkthroughs, real time coaching, and data analysis through O3s focused on student data and coaching towards goals, weekly walkthroughs, and frequent observation of leader work
• Leads weekly conversations with school leadership team focused on progress monitoring, student achievement data and establishing strategies to meet school-wide goals; delegates system of instructional leadership expectations to team
• Develops intervention systems that address gaps in sub-groups of students based on race, gender, SPED, or other identity marker.
• Maximize the impact of formal PD time (including Content Team Meetings) by ensuring all sessions are well-planned and ample practice is prioritized such that it results in improved teacher effectiveness

Student Culture

• Establishes a clear vision for excellent school culture and regularly articulates this vision to leaders, students, staff, and families
• Consistently reinforces high expectations for all students all the time
• Actively develops school culture where students find joy in learning and where students are joyful and engaged
• Creates a culture in which teachers build strong and lasting relationships with students, especially the most challenging
• Develops, upholds, maintains, and course-corrects clearly articulated systems for how the school culture will function (e.g., behavior, recognition, consequences)
• School meets all org-mandated, federal, and state student compliance expectations

Staff Culture

• Establish a clear vision for excellent school culture and regularly articulate this vision to leaders, students, staff, and families
• Consistently reinforces high expectations for all staff all the time
• Actively develops school culture where teachers find joy in teaching and student learning
• Develops clearly articulated systems for how the staff culture will function (e.g., staff attendance, coverage, etc.)

Community Engagement

• Engages families and community stakeholders proactively and productively as partners in school goals. Performs this through various opportunities for families to engage (e.g., virtual and in-person Town Hall events)
• Creates a culture and expectation that teachers reach out to parents and enlist their proactive support in their ch