Regional Superintendent - KIPP Foundation

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free 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 275 schools, nearly 16,500 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. 

About Our Values: 

• Focus on Excellent Results: Winning for Children and Families – Denying people of color and people experiencing economic hardship excellent outcomes from public organizations is longstanding and only perpetuates inter-generational racism and poverty.  We pursue excellence at a world-class level because our children and families deserve nothing less.  We focus on excellent results, generated by excellent daily action because intentions alone will not enable our children to lead fulfilling lives. 

• Courageous Action: We do Hard Things All day, Every Day – Our work is centered on reversing the impact of generational racism and poverty on children of color from low-income families.  This work is inherently challenging and will never be easy.  Our mission requires that, through concerted action, we embrace, confront, and overcome adversity. 

• Resilient Solutions Focus:  Find a Way or Make One – We doggedly pursue solutions to every problem we confront.  For every problem, we find or invent a solution.  We are smart, optimistic, and thoughtful in crafting solutions, but also timely, recognizing that our children only have one life to live.  We embrace a growth mindset, believing that simply because we have not achieved our ultimate aims today does not mean that we cannot tomorrow.  We chase the continuous improvement of ourselves, our interpersonal relationships, our teams, and our organization.

Job Description

Position Overview  

As a regional superintendent supporting a portfolio of regions, this individual(s) will partner with Executive Directors to run the best school system in the country through support, strategic development, and driving accountability of regions to our outcomes. This position is charged with ensuring all schools within their portfolio succeed in providing the highest quality education to achieve our mission. The regional superintendent will oversee the Executive Directors of their regions by providing the leadership support, development, and accountability necessary for all our regions to thrive. Working under the direction of the President, the regional superintendent will partner closely with the Chief Schools Officer, other Chiefs, Executive Directors, and regional board chairs to ensure alignment of expectations, implementation of our model with fidelity, and direct support to our Schools Team.  

Key Responsibilities and Duties: 

• Collaborate with the President, other Regional Superintendents, Executive Directors, the Chief Schools Officer, and the Chief team to ensure a clear and aligned vision for academic excellence across all our schools through implementation of our programmatic model with fidelity and enthusiasm in service of achieving the highest student outcomes  
• Collaborate with regions across the network, identify emerging needs and as appropriate, participate in the delivery of potential solutions 
• Ensure the effective communication, cascading of information, 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  
• Monitor aligned dashboards to identify gaps and deployment of strategies and resources to achieve our goals  
• Facilitate sharing and strong relationship management by connecting regions with one another, the Foundation, and key other resources 
• Serve as a key member of Office of the President by providing regular updates to President, CEO, Chief Schools Officer, and Board as needed, offering perspective, making recommendations and demonstrating the integrity and fiduciary responsibility we expect from all our staff  

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) 
• Team Leadership & Talent Development: Set a tone and culture that enables team leadership to maximize individual strengths and address areas for development; foster a talent culture that plans for succession and retention of key players and communicates an employee value proposition to promote performance, sustainability, and engagement. 

• Achievement Orientation: Ensures clarity in goals and accountabilities while working with agility and creativity to drive toward deadlines and outcomes-focused metrics; creates an environment in which all systems and processes support high levels of efficiency to ensure that key priorities are accomplished successfully; champions the ongoing spirit of improvement and professional growth across the organization while holding teams accountable to results. 
• Partnership, Alliance-Building and Stakeholder Management: Can generate excitement, enthusiasm, and commitment across internal and external stakeholders to advance KIPP’s Mission; has political acumen and the interpersonal, diplomatic, and communications skills necessary to develop successful working relationships with diverse constituents. 
• Planning and Execution: Systems-level thinker who can develop and drive vision across an organization with national reach; Adept at project management; able to own the development of several school communities driving multiple competing priorities forward; Meticulous attention to detail with an ability to produce high quality work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. 
• Cultural Competence & Commitment to Equity: A proactive cultural leader and team player who thrives on collaboration and learning; can effectively collaborate with teammates across lines of difference. 

Qualifications

Experience & Qualifications 

• 10-15 years of relevant experience in education, non-profit, and/or business, preferably in a senior executive role with experience scaling mid-size organizations.
• Change leadership experience, ideally at a systems level experience managing significant change toward successful outcomes (such as, but not limited to, restructuring and strategy 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.

Additional Information

Work Conditions 

• Travel requirements: 30-40%.
• Regular full-time, exempt position. 

Location 

It is preferred, but not mandatory for this role to be based out of a KIPP Foundation office.  This role also offers the option of working from a remote office full-time.  KIPP Foundation office is 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 $240,000-$283,000.  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.