Senior Director, KF Operations - Planning

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 279 schools, nearly 16,500 educators, and nearly 210,000 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 

The Senior Director, KF Operations – Planning owns the Foundation’s strategy and planning operating rhythm to ensure clarity, alignment, and long‑term coherence to the KIPP 2030 plan. Reporting to the SVP, People & Ops, this role serves as the connective tissue between strategy, execution, and governance ensuring disciplined planning cycles and effective processes to measure outcomes for our work. This role will partner closely with senior leaders and functional planning owners across KF to drive annual and multi‑year planning, monitor organizational performance, and steward governance of the Foundation’s long‑range strategy (including the 2030 Plan). This is a high‑impact role for a systems‑oriented leader who can balance strategic thinking with operational rigor. 

Responsibilities 

Strategic and Annual Planning 

• Steward the KIPP Network’s 2030 Plan, maintaining coherence between long‑term commitments and near‑term execution and building processes to reflect and update long-term strategy and ensure 2030 priorities are reflected in annual plans. 

• Own and continuously improve the annual planning process, ensuring alignment between long‑term strategy, team annual priorities and initiatives, and resource decisions. 

• Design clear planning guidance, timelines, and decision points for teams. 

• Prepare clear materials and decision-making protocols to land annual org priorities and resourcing decisions. 

Cross-Functional Coordination 

• Steward annual planning project team to ensure coherent, aligned processes including finance, talent, One KIPP Delivery, and other KF teammates.   

• Serve as the central coordinator for planning leads across functions, ensuring shared standards, consistency, and cross‑functional alignment. 

• Facilitate structured planning forums to surface interdependencies, resolve tensions, and drive enterprise‑level decisions. 

Progress Monitoring Toward Organizational OKRs & KPIs 

• Own the Foundation’s appro