Director, Talent Development - (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 Director of Talent Development will facilitate continuous improvement and growth in school-based leaders and teachers performance while providing them with the necessary resources, feedback, and assistance to succeed.  The DTD will ensure high-impact implementation and management of KIPP Texas systems, and support creation of the plan/tools/resources to support schools to onboard and develop internal talent into key roles.  The DTD will champion and coach the talent development life cycle in departments across KIPP Texas, while partnering with school management in regions so all teachers and leaders have access to talent structures and systems and clear expectations for use. DTDs will work in close partnership with schools to build proficient talent acumen in self and leaders. 

Key Duties

1. Develop Self: Invest time in self to sharpen saw of progressional learning and programming practices and being an active and planned teammate in team meetings, one-on-ones, and in teammate support; lead team meetings and performance management through one-on-one meetings with direct reports

2. Coach & Develop Leaders On-The-Ground: Attend weekly school walkthroughs and leadership data meetings, to inform weekly principal and assistant principal meetings that help move data towards milestones and goals; Observe and provide feedback for any and all enabling systems; provide targeted feedback to assistant principals in talent programs aligned to their development roadmap and programming goals

   1. On-The-Ground Coaching & Development: Support school health by attend weekly school walkthroughs and leadership data meetings, to inform weekly principal and assistant principal meetings that help move data towards milestones and goals; Observe and provide feedback for any and all enabling systems; provide targeted feedback to assistant principals in talent programs aligned to their development roadmap and programming goals

3. Coach & Develop Teachers On-The-Ground: Calibrate with school leadership team members on classroom observation ratings, strong action step monitoring and practice, and intervention planning in service of growing teacher practice; Direct coaching of novice assistant principals around talent structures and power moves to move teacher instruction; provide targeted feedback to teachers in talent programs aligned to their development focus areas and programming goals

4. Monitor Outcomes: Ensure team and school goals are chased effectively and support improving talent development practices, systems and processes year over year in effort to design scaled talent systems for KIPP Texas’ planned growth; progress monitor structures with school leadership teams in service of school health (i.e. action step audit, data dashboard tracker in support of building intervention plans with principals); partner with Talent Management Team in service of moving overall school health forward

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