Director, Formal Learning Principal Development

Job Description

This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: United States

Company Description…

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.

Our mission: Together with families and communities, we 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.

Our vision: Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.

The KIPP Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP schools across the country. The KIPP Foundation trains and develops outstanding educators to lead KIPP public schools; provides tools, resources and training for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas across KIPP and other public schools and organizations.

Job Description

About The Position

As the Director, Formal Learning, you will lead KIPP Foundation’s efforts in defining and executing a vision of excellence for onboarding and developing our principals. Through close collaboration with other Foundation teams and KIPP regions, you will ensure that KIPP principals have access to aligned, cohesive, and exceptional learning experiences: experiences that will not only enhance their leadership skills but also empower them to effectively and passionately lead KIPP to achieve its ambitious academic and culture goals for KIPPsters. The ideal candidate will be dedicated to racial and educational equity. This position reports to the Senior Director, Formal Learning.

Responsibilities

Strategy & Program Design
• With the Senior Director, Formal Learning, you will build out KIPP Foundation’s approach to centralized and in-region leadership development, with a particular focus on the role of the principal.
• In collaboration with the Schools Team, you will outline a strategy for measuring the impact of XXX

Principal Development Execution & Evaluation 
• Serve as lead content strand owner for in-person and virtual centralized professional development for KIPP principals.
• Organize multiple-day in-person professional development events for KIPP principals. 
• Work in collaboration across KF teams and with principal managers to ensure in-region coaching is grounded in KIPP’s Principal Core Skills & Competencies Rubric. 
• Design a professional development program that is impactful and inspiring and fosters a sense of community among KIPP principals. The program should focus on cohort learning and create a culture of deep learning, where leaders can enhance their ability to effectively lead their teams in overcoming challenges, improve their capacity to lead sustainable changes, and achieve excellent and equitable outcomes for students. 
• Analyze data and use it to drive decisions and programmatic improvements towards greater outcomes for KIPP principals and students. 
• Lead program evaluation, including supporting development of a logic model, measurement strategies, learning questions and regular reflection on the impact of program offerings  
• Ensure data is collected accurately and in a timely manner to answer learning questions  
• Analyze, synthesize, and share data with relevant internal and external stakeholders  

Qualifications

Skills
• Mission & Student Focus: Demonstrated commitment to education equity; a passion for KIPP’s mission; desire and ability to uphold KIPP’s values (Focus on Excellent Results, Courageous Action, and Resilient Solutions Focus)
• Subject Matter Expert in Adult Learning: Well versed in adult learning frameworks and tactics; able to design, develop, and implement professional development for a diverse adult learners
• Achievement Orientation: can set vision and strategy, ensuring clarity in goals and accountabilities while working with agility and creativity to drive toward deadlines and outcomes-focused metrics; can adapt to achieve goals while upholding integrity and organization principles and values
• Strategic Critical Thinking and Reasoning: Systems-level thinker who can craft a vision for how an organization achieves equity, inclusion, and strong student outcomes through talent strategy; can diagnose root causes of pain points, solve complex problems and implement solutions; able to manage both the big picture and the details; Oriented towards iterating on and testing solutions
• Stakeholder Management & Relationship Building: Excellent relationship builder with demonstrated experience managing diverse stakeholders, leading change, and promoting strong collaboration in service of the relentless pursuit of improvement and collective achievement; quickly establishes credibility with and influences senior leadership on major strategic questions
• Planning & Execution: Creates systems to manage projects effectively and balance competing priorities; able to anticipate and address risks; thrives in an entrepreneurial environment and comfortable operating in ambiguity
• Cultural Competence & Commitment to Equity: A proactive cultural leader and team player who thrives on collaboration and learning; examines the impact of his/her identities, biases, assumptions, and behaviors on his/her power and privilege, interactions with others, work and leadership in the organization; able to recognize, immediately respond, and consistently remedy interpersonal and systemic bias and inequities.

Experience and Qualifications
• 7+ years of work experience with creating and delivering formal learning systems in an organization with national reach
• 3+ years of experience as a former principal and/or principal manager highly preferred
• Familiarity with virtual learning platforms highly preferred
• Record of results effectively designing and delivering both formal learning programs and talent systems including (recruitment, selection, onboarding, and performance management systems)
• Experience working in a virtual environments with teammates across multiple time zones

Additional Information

Work Conditions
• Travel requirements: 20%
• Full, Exempt role

Location

It is preferred, but not mandatory for this role to be based out of a KIPP Foundation office. This role also has the option of working from a remote office full-time. KIPP Foundation offices are in NYC and Chicago.

Compensation and Benefits

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, and relevant experience.  The salary range for this position is $120,000-$145,500. In addition, KIPP Foundation provides a variety of benefits to employees, including: 
• 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 such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts

KIPP Foundation embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the students and communities with whom we work and the world that around them. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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