Director of School Leadership Development

Company Description

About KIPP Team and Family

KIPP TEAM & Family is our network office that includes support teams - such as Leadership Development, Recruitment, Advocacy, Facilities, Finance, HR and more - dedicated to empowering our schools and ensuring the success of KIPP students throughout New Jersey and Miami. Our schools are 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. The first KIPP New Jersey school opened in Newark in 2002 and since then our school network has expanded to educate 8,135 students in grades K-12. 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. 

In 2018, we grew our KIPP community in response to a need for high-quality school options for students in Greater Miami’s Urban Core communities. That led to the creation of KIPP Miami, which currently educates more than 1,000 students in four schools, with plans to reach 5,800 students by 2025. By offering highly effective educators with strong bonds to families, more time in school learning, services that support a variety of student needs, and a culture focused on achievement, our students in New Jersey and Miami are on the path to and through college, career, and choice-filled lives.  

Job Description

Here’s what you need to know: 

The Director of School Leadership Development (DSLD) drives the equitable school leadership pipeline development for KIPP NJ/Miami. In partnership with the KIPP NJ/Miami Academics and Talent teams, the DSLD will own the design, management, and execution of the School Leadership Pipeline (SLP) programs, ensuring we are developing a robust pipeline of internal school leaders prepared with the skills and competencies to lead high-performing schools. 

The School Leadership Pipeline program aims to provide robust foundational and successor-specific readiness for school leadership in our existing campuses across Newark, Camden, and Miami. The SLP program consists of two sub-programs – the School Leader Fellowship Program and the Principal-in-Residence Program. Both combine on-the-job learning, professional development, and mentorship and coaching opportunities to prepare participants to create and lead excellent schools. 

• The School Leader Fellowship (SLF) is an 18-month rigorous leadership development program for sitting Assistant Principals, focused on building the technical, adaptive, and managerial skills necessary for effective school leadership at KIPP NJ-Miami through project-based learning modules.

The Principal-in-Residence Program (PiR Program) is a separate 6-to-12 month phase of the pipeline and begins once a participant is selected into a campus-specific successor or founder position. The focus of the residency is to translate universal school leadership proficiencies built in the Fellowship into campus-specific preparation through a rigorous transition curriculum.

Please note the following:

1. The individual that fills this role MUST have prior successful experience as a School Leader/Principal as evidenced through data representing significant student achievement results and positive staff culture metrics.  Please see job description for further requirements.

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

Program Vision

• Owns program vision and design, including goal setting and systems for progress monitoring, creation of key program deliverables (leader standards and performance benchmarking tools, formal professional development calendar, etc)
• Owns re-launch content vision and design
  • Finalizing a project-based learning scope for Fellows to structure on-the-job learning
  • Tailoring a transition curriculum to each PiR per campus context
  • Tailoring a provided development roadmap (scope of necessary skills) to align to KIPP NJ/Miami leadership competencies and job domain skills. 
  • Creating supporting curriculum for formal professional development and ongoing coaching
  • Collaborating with leaders in other CMO functions to provide exposure to and training in regional skill modules such as HR/ER, risk management, finance, operations, etc.
• Owns iterative improvements of initial content vision and design year over year 

Program Management

• In collaboration with regional talent team, supports selection process for Fellows and PiRs.
• Manages collaboration between Fellows/PiRs, host School Leaders, program mentors, Heads of Schools, and regional Executive Directors to ensure cross-functional support of development trajectories. 
  • Creates and manages systems for team collaboration a