Regional Superintendent, KIPP Texas - Austin
Alma Advisory Group, United States
Job Description
About KIPP Texas
KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 57 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 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.
About the Regional Superintendent Position
KIPP Texas - Austin is seeking a Regional Superintendent committed to educational equity and passionate about creating joyful, academically excellent schools. As the regional leader for ten PK-12 schools across KIPPTexas - Austin, the Regional Superintendent is charged with leading the region to deliver KIPP Texas’ vision to become the highest performing large school district in the state. Through enacting the state-wide vision and strategy for academic programming, school operations, and school culture, the regional superintendent will lead a sustainable organization capable of producing consistent, equitable, and high-quality results for students. The Regional Superintendent will oversee a high-performing team of regional leadership team members focused on rapidly improving student achievement, and transforming student culture. The regional superintendent will serve as an executive leader at KIPP Texas and collaborates with state-wide departments to ensure that the region has the financial, operational, and personnel resources to thrive. Serving as the public face of KIPP TX - Austin, the regional superintendent will support key external initiatives, including regional advisory board and community relations.
Key Responsibilities and Duties
Lead the KIPP Texas - Austin region
- Collaborate with the KIPP Texas Public Schools Executive Team to hone the state-wide strategic vision.
- Enact the state-wide strategic vision by developing and implementing a regional plan to accomplish key priorities.
- Partner with the Chief Schools Officer to set clear multi-year operational, financial, and academic goals for the region, ensuring a sustainable organization at all levels.
- Foster KIPP Texas Team and Family through championing KIPP Texas’ organizational culture and modeling our core values and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Manage change across the region and invest internal and external key stakeholders in strategic evolutions, always ensuring that little KIPPsters and academic excellence are at the center of decision making.
- Together with regional leadership oversee the operational management of the region.
Drive academic excellence and joy across KIPP Texas - Austin schools
- Serve as the regional expert on KIPP Texas vision for academic excellence, acknowledging and addressing systemic issues, such as racism, power dynamics, and privilege.
- Transform academic and student culture at ten PK-12 schools, aligning the most critical outcomes and measures of success for students and schools to ensure we are achieving our mission by operating high-quality schools.
- Ensure Little KIPPsters enroll, thrive, and persist in KIPP Texas - Austin Schools.
- Serve as the regional instructional leader, supporting and developing school leader managers and school leaders to implement high-quality teacher development, including, observing, coaching, and professional learning practices across schools.
- Support data-driven practices across the region.
Lead a high-performing team to deliver transformational educational outcomes for students
- Lead and develop a high performing team of regional leaders responsible for student outcomes across ten PK-12 schools in Austin.
- Directly manage two Heads of Schools and Regional Director of Academic Health to drive the instructional vision across the region.
- Drive results across KIPP Texas - Austin, including progress tracking, mon