Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP)

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 fair world.

Founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, we are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join a Team and Family with an unwavering commitment to creating classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in belongingness, academic success and joy. If you are passionate about joining a mission and values-driven community who wants every child to want to run to school, the KIPP Texas Team and Family is for you!

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

The KTX HR Business Partner (HRBP) plays a key role in staffing, retaining, and creating a thriving work environment that leads to strong talent health, which achieves high-quality educational experience for all students. This position is a strategic advisor and talent partner to school leaders and central talent/HR administrators to ensure that org-wide Talent strategies and initiatives are adopted, adapted to the regional or school needs, and implemented across schools within an assigned portfolio. This position formulates partnerships across the Talent/HR division to deliver value-added service while improving the talent acumen of leaders and staff that reflects KTX's mission, vision, and values.

The HRBP is responsible for setting & adjusting talent strategy within their region (portfolio of schools) and managing the matriculation of talent management processes for all campus roles within the assigned portfolio to ensure that KTX has the talent required to meet student achievement goals while maintaining compliance with district policies and employment laws. The HRBP also collaborates with central Talent/HR administrators to articulate, define, and communicate a regional point of view regarding employee retention, engagement, and overall talent health. 

This role requires a proactive, strategic, and trustworthy Talent professional who can balance KTX objectives with employee needs, drive key Talent & HR initiatives, adapt & implement Talent/HR Strategies, and ensure a compliant, engaged, and high-performing workforce. Does that sound like you?

Key Responsibilities

Talent Acquisition & Workforce Planning

• Leverage data-driven insights from Talent Health reporting to inform hiring decisions and improve workforce planning.

• Collaborate with hiring managers to develop and adapt effective staffing strategies for the region and schools within the portfolio

• Partners with hiring managers to complete annual staffing workbooks to determine employment actions based on school allocations while maintaining accurate staffing rosters at all times

• Provides coaching, guidance, and input on staffing restructures, workforce planning, and succession planning, facilitating key conversations, moves in alignment with regional leadership, and in accordance with employment policies

• Coordinates and executes Talent Reviews on a recurring basis, ensuring we have the right people in seats and staff are placed in corresponding development plans

• Key Liaison to the recruitment team, ensuring timely and quality hires are made with a specific focus on hard-to-hire and/or critical roles

• Cascade-up trends and escalates staffing support needs for critical scenarios and situations to the central recruitment team administrators

Employee Retention & Engagement

• Leverage data-driven insights from Talent Health reporting (Retention, Two-Step & TNTP data results) to inform work environment culture action planning that improves staff retention and engagement.

• Partner with managers to adapt and implement retention strategies or initiatives to reduce turnover and enhance employee satisfaction at their school, including coordination of staff town halls or 1:1 meetings to dive deeper into the latest engagement survey results and trends (as needed)

• Champion our core values amongst the team, ensuring a supportive work en