Assistant Principal of Operations - (24-25)

Company Description

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.

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

Job Description

The Opportunity

The School Operations Team is focused on creating the conditions by which our schools can thrive by designing and leading efficient, safe, joyful, and just systems; working to remove obstacles to learning and finding creative solutions to challenges to enable the highest level of teaching and learning; and providing best-in-class customer service to families and staff members to ensure they feel welcomed, cared for and a valued member of our community.  The Assistant Principal of Operations (APO), a key member of the school’s Leadership Team, will lead implementation and maintenance of clear operational systems while building a data-driven, service-oriented culture. This position is central to the realization of our mission as it provides the School Leader and Assistant Principals (APs) the opportunity to focus almost exclusively on teaching and learning within the schools. The APO will, therefore, be an individual who embraces innovation and continuous improvement, is willing to jump into projects, and relishes the challenge of finding ways to work smarter and more efficiently, all in support of ensuring the instructional staff and leaders can stay focused on teaching and learning.

Key Responsibilities

Recruits, Hires, Onboards, Develops and leads a high-performing team

• Builds a strong and diverse team with an inclusive culture that brings out each team member’s strengths and ignites actions
• Manages and develops others toward excellence in their role and with an eye toward their long-term development
• Establishes ongoing, regular cadence to facilitate collaboration, training and support of the team
• Progress monitors execution of responsibilities of the team in order to drive operational excellence

Creates and Drives school-based strategies to ensure kids are in seats every day and year over year

• Partners with families to set attendance expectations for new and existing families 
• Tracks data on a daily and cumulative basis and engages with key stakeholders weekly to identify trends and actions
  • Ensure that substitutes are booked and given attendance roster materials
• Works with school lead teams to train, invest, motivate and implement attendance procedures
• Partners with SRE team to execute student recruitment efforts
• Develops and execute school-based re-enrollment and cultivation plans

Design and continually evolve school-based operations policies and procedures such as arrival and dismissal

• Implements an ongoing monitoring system that reviews and addresses parent, teacher, and student feedback
• Completes safety drills and audits on given schedule
• Manages operational components of field lessons
• Maintain regular communication rhythms with families regarding important school information

Informs and manages the school budget in partnership with the School Le