School Leader Manager (24-25)

Company Description

About KIPP Texas Public Schools 

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 57 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 Public Schools is a national network of 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 280 schools, nearly 15,000 educators, and 175,000 students and alumni.

Job Description

About the Role

The Deputy Head of Schools (DHOS) is responsible for the overall quality of school programming and maintains a laser-focus on continually increasing the number of students who thrive in and graduate from the college of their choice. They pursue this work through excellent management and development of a cohort of school leaders, and collaboration cross-organizationally with other development, operations, technology, talent, curriculum, and finance leaders. The DHOS reports to the Head of Schools and serves as an integral member of the Regional KIPP Texas academic leadership team, which is responsible for driving the overall direction and strategy for the region. This is an ideal opportunity for a dynamic and visionary organizational leader with significant team leadership and school improvement experience to play a critical role in expanding and shaping a premier K-12 charter management organization committed to supporting students to graduate college and succeed in school and life.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

Lead KIPP TX’s School Leaders

• Manager, supervise, and evaluate a cohort of PK3-12 school leaders to drive towards school improvement initiatives and regional results.
• Champion KIPP TX core values and build a community of team and family members dedicated to  achievement, inclusion and belongingness.
• Collaborate with the Regional Superintendent and Talent Team to hire school leaders and assistant principals.
• Cultivate school leaders leadership competencies in academics, school culture, people management and team leadership talent through leveraging coaching and professional learning opportunities.
• Nurture a healthy school leadership pipeline and engage in regional and organization succession planning efforts.

Build Academically Excellent and Joyful Schools

• Support school leaders to internalize and implement KIPP TX’s academic and school culture strategy within and across school campuses.
• Facilitate annual planning processes, including master schedule development, with a cohort of school leaders in alignment with regional and state-wide goals.
• Organize and implement mechanisms to monitor progress towards short and long term goals and initiatives. 
• Develop a deep understanding of KIPP TX’s high - quality instructional materials and facilitate school leaders capacity for strong implementation at their respective school campuses.
• Examine student learning and culture data within and across schools to identify school and cohort priorities.
• Collaborate with regional leadership and the state-wide academics and operations departments to implement initiatives aligned to school, cohort, and state-wide priorities.
• Champion emerging bilinguals, students with IEPs and 504s to receive exceptional services and supports, in compliance with state and federal regulations.
• Supports the development of strong school operational systems and processes with a focus on data collection, scheduling, and Special Education programs and services.

Serve as member of Regional Leadership Team

• Participates in KIPP Texas regional leadership team to oversees implementation of short and long-term strategy to reach regional and state-wide goals.
• Partners with regional leadership to identify region-wide gaps to goals and responds with aligned interventions.
• Works with the School Support Partners team to ensure that all of the o