Regional Superintendent

Summary

Join KIPP Public Schools as a Regional Superintendent and partner with Executive Directors to lead a portfolio of regions, driving accountability and year-over-year improvements in key metrics. Collaborate with the President and other leaders to set a clear vision for academic excellence, implementing programmatic models effectively. Provide coaching and support to Executive Directors through observations, feedback, and professional development. Design and build systems to support national priorities, ensuring regions meet goals and benchmarks. Manage stakeholder communication and collaboration across regions and national teams. This role requires at least 5 years of experience as an Executive Director, CEO, or Superintendent, proven board interaction experience, and budget management expertise. A Bachelor's degree is required, and an advanced degree is preferred. The position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Mission & Student Focus - Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPP’s mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold KIPP’s core values (Focus on Excellent Results, Collective Impact, and Courageous Action)
• Achievement & Outcomes Orientation - Demonstrated record of setting and achieving ambitious goals for their departments in complex or ambiguous environment; uses data, research, and analysis to set a high bar of excellence for goal setting; effectively distributes and redistributes work among direct reports, teammates, and teams to optimizes goal attainments; effectively sets and fosters a culture that enables and celebrates teammates’ achievements and goals attainment
• Vision Setting and Work Management - Sets a clear vision that ensures the team's work aligns with organizational goals. Effectively prioritizes and delivers on work products that ensure the sustainability and scalability of work. Develops and implements agile project plans that ensure cross-functional collaboration and resource sharing to achieve organizational goals; creates and ensures systems are in place for knowledge management
• Strategic Decision Making & Problem Solving - Effectively uses data to shape teamwide decisions and the learning agenda or evaluation of a function or significant initiative. Able to generate, implement, and evaluate solutions with a focus on scalability and sustainability
• Effective Teaming & Stakeholder Management: Identifies and leverages opportunities with both internal and external stakeholders to increase impact; leads successful collaboration across functions and evolves/adapts plans to get to strong results; has the interpersonal, diplomatic, relationships building and communication skills to connect and compel teammates across different functions to collaborate effectively toward shared goals
• Process Management - Systems level thinker who can build and align goals and plans with organization priorities; Develops and codifies processes that promote coordination, efficiency and efficacy across KF and the Network; Prioritizes processes that ensure sustainability and scalability; ensures team is finding efficiencies through process implementation and improvement, resource sharing, or other methods
• Change Management and Communications - Able to set a compelling organizational directive for change efforts, catalyzing teams to achieve change at scale. Effectively navigates internal and external political dynamics and stakeholders to drive change efforts at the systems level; Champions KF and network-wide change and recruits internal and external sponsors
• At least 5 years of experience as an Executive Director, CEO, or Superintendent of a school operating organization, school system, charter network, or public school district
• Proven experience and record of success in interfacing with, managing, and reporting to a Board of Directors
• Change leadership experience, ideally at a systems level experience managing significant change toward successful outcomes (such as, but not limited to, restructuring and strategic pivots) while maintaining a strong focus on team culture
• Budget management experience overseeing and managing a complex budget that allows teams to achieve both short and long-term success
• Bachelor’s degree required; an advanced degree (e.g., Education, Business, Policy, Law) is highly preferred

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the President, other Regional Superintendents, Executive Directors, and the One KIPP Program team to ensure a clear and aligned vision for academic excellence across all our schools through implementation of our programmatic model with excellence and enthusiasm in service of achieving the highest student outcomes
• Engage in progress monitoring with KIPP Foundation leaders through internal reporting, taking part in anchor metric dashboard meetings, and contributing to annual planning to drive multi-year progress and results
• Serve as a key member of the Office of the President by providing regular updates to the President, CEO, Chief Schools Officer, and KF Board as needed, offering perspective, making recommendations, and demonstrating the integrity and fiduciary responsibility we expect from all our staff
• Provide coaching through monthly O3s and on-site visits through observation and feedback, problem-solving, and support
• Create professional development and design convenings to build a thriving ED community, highlight data-based best practices, and match the needs of the community with relevant supports through in-person and virtual convenings, learning visits, and more
• Monitor aligned dashboards to identify gaps and deployment of strategies and resources to support EDs in achieving our goals
• Differentiate supports for EDs based on data and regional diagnostic while ensuring all EDs receive support in key areas related to our shared network priorities
• Collaborate with the Schools Team to set the bar, build capacity, and hold regions accountable for areas of instructional focus. This includes engaging in the design process, differentiating for regional needs and scale, and incorporating regional needs and voices into the process
• Design and build enabling systems to support areas of national focus or priority in relation to the network strategic plan. Provide clear direction, cohesive support, and effective tools to ensure regions effectively meet goals and benchmarks in areas of focus
• Ensure effective communication, information cascading, and coordination across and within regions through regular operating mechanisms and appropriate channels
• Collaborate with other national teams to ensure all non-academic responsibilities and goals are met, including but not limited to operations, technology, finances, human resources, and advancement
• Collaborate with regions across the network, identify emerging needs, and, as appropriate, participate in the delivery of potential solutions
• Facilitate sharing and strong relationship management by connecting regions with one another, the Foundation, and key other resources

Benefits

• 25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+)
• 100% paid parental leave
• 100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans
• Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program
• Finance Security benefits include a 401K retirement plan with a 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts