Regional Assessment Coordinator (23-24)

Company Description

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 59 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 Texas is part of the national KIPP network of 255 college-preparatory public charter schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Nationwide, KIPP students complete four-year college at a rate of 36 percent, comparable to the national average for all students and approximately three times higher than the average of students from low-income communities.

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

Job Description

The Opportunity
This position is an opportunity to join the state assessment team and a regional academics team to support the implementation of local, state and national assessments to ensure high quality and reliable student achievement data for all KIPP schools in Austin, Dallas, Houston, or San Antonio region. The Regional Assessment Coordinator is responsible for five main areas: a) support for campus assessment coordinators, b) the management and distribution of
assessment materials, c) management of data collection systems, d) creation of systems to ensure compliance with state and national testing requirements, and e) support the overall curriculum team with operational expertise to ensure the coordination of all team events and activities. The Regional Assessment Coordinator will work collaboratively with a team of KIPP
Texas and campus assessment coordinators as well as regional content area coordinators to provide support to campus leadership teams as they work to ensure that each student is able to progress on the path to and through college. This position is based in the Austin area.

Key Responsibilities
● Work with the Assessment & Academic team on the implementation of network-wide assessments such as, the creation of systems to distribute common assessments to teachers and students.
● Assist schools in managing the processes required of state and national testing.
● Create processes for the collection of data and communicate clearly to stakeholders network-wide to collect and use data.
● Lead and facilitate professional development around using assessment systems.

●Secure external resources, professional development and materials to support individual teachers, content teams and school teams in the use of assessment tools and data.
● Support the planning and logistics for all curriculum team events including summer professional development and monthly regional days.
● Support senior leaders with the KIPP Texas Academics Team with maintaining strong team operations including budget management, regional communication and alignment between regional teams.
● Assist schools ON SITE in managing the process required of state and national testing.

Qualifications

Skills and Qualifications
Regional Assessment Coordinator candidates will have the following experiences:
● Bachelor’s degree (required)
● Experience working in a K-12 education setting at a campus level as a teacher,
instructional leader or operations leader or at the regional/district level as an
instructional leader, academic program manager or assessment coordinator.
● Experience working in schools, school systems or organizations that serve historically underserved students or communities.
● Demonstrated experience in analyzing data and using results to ensure increased
student achievement or to evaluate program effectiveness.
● Experience leading professional development or teacher collaboration.
● Experience with education technology applications used to collect, store and process assessment data such as Illuminate, as well as a high level of proficiency with document formatting and using excel/spreadsheets.
● Experience working with diverse stakeholders and/or working with cross-functional teams.
● Regional Assessment Coordinator candid