Regional Manager of Student Recruitment

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

The Student Enrollment and Data Team is focused on ensuring that schools are fully enrolled so that students are free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities. The team supports this vision through application acquisition and family onboarding, cultivation, and persistence. The Regional Manager of Student Recruitment (SRM) is responsible for developing a regional annual student in-field recruitment plan to
achieve our organization’s application goals. This person will manage, coach, and hold the Recruitment & Community Coordinator(s) in their region accountable to meet their weekly and annual application goals. To be successful in this role, a SRM brings a track record for designing and implementing successful recruitment and/or sales strategies. They have experience building and maintaining relationships with city and neighborhood
partners like nonprofit organizations, business, residential complexes, daycares, and more. A SRM is data-driven and is actively making pivots in strategy based on application and enrollment numbers. They are comfortable working in an environment that requires you to project manage multiple priorities and competing deadlines, while never losing sight of the overarching goals and desired outcomes. A SRM must be available to work flexible hours, including some nights and weekends as they will be expected to meet their own individual application targets.

Key Responsibilities
Recruitment Planning and Progress Monitoring
● Devise, manage, and implement regional recruitment strategies that support the recruitment of students wishing to attend KIPP Texas in line with set targets
● Provide each Recruitment and Community Coordinator with their weekly field plan
● Responsible for reaching out and maintaining relationships with city-wide and neighborhood partners for the sake of setting up recruitment activities
● Supporting the team in collecting weekly application needs coming from the Student Recruitment team in the region by either participating in community events, phone banking, block walking, or tabling
● Identify, attend, and evaluate a range of student recruitment events including recruitment fairs, exhibitions, seminars, school visits, community-organized events, presentations at community partners, etc.
● Responsible for collecting and providing real-time feedback to the Recruitment and Community Coordinator in the field to improve recruitment practice
● Track investment and outcome of every recruitment activity to track return on investment
● Elicit, communicate with, and train school volunteers interested in participating in in-field recruitment efforts on an ongoing basis Team Development & Regional Operating Mechanism Participation
● Holds weekly check-ins with direct reports, participates in quarterly meetings with peers, and shapes the professional development opportunities available to our recruiters statewide alongside the Director
● Progress monitors weekly application acquisition by the regional Student Recruitment team and makes pivots as needed to exceed weekly application goal
● Works cross-functionally with other regional operations leaders and voices over student recruitment efforts in bi-weekly Regional Ops Cabinet meetings
● Ensures that the regional r