Managing Director of Post Secondary Success
Company: KIPP Texas
Location: Austin
Posted on: May 15, 2022
Job Description:
Company DescriptionKIPP 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 DescriptionThe
Opportunity The KIPP Forward Team exists in our four regions within
KIPP Texas Public Schools. The current work with KIPP Forward is
focused on the successful support and partnerships for our
KIPPsters to be prepared to matriculate to the college and/or
career option of their choice. As such, the KIPP Forward team will
also take on developing a career readiness strategy to support all
of our KIPPsters.KIPP Texas believes we can better support our
students and alumni by operating KIPP Forward statewide. Thus, we
are seeking a visionary, strategic leader to establish how we work
as a statewide team. The KIPP Texas Managing Director of Post
Secondary Success will be responsible for the development and
execution of a centralized, statewide KIPP Forward strategy.Key
strategic opportunities are:
- Maximizing the college enrollment and college success rates of
KIPPsters across the state
- Developing an integrated college and career success strategy
that affirms all KIPPsters on their paths to postsecondary and
career success
- Strengthening and reimagining our approach to postsecondary
support to ensure our model scales in a financially sustainable way
as the number of KIPP Texas alumni growsIn addition, the KIPP Texas
Managing Director of Post Secondary Success will be responsible for
working with other KIPP Texas statewide and regional leaders,
ensuring close coordination between KIPP Texas high schools and
KIPP Forward teams, building strategic partnerships, and
implementing rigorous progress monitoring processes to improve KIPP
Forward performance.The KIPP Texas Managing Director of Post
Secondary Success will: lead a team of four regional KIPP Forward
Directors, who in turn supervise a statewide team who manage
regional staff; manage and develop the KIPP Forward Director team;
and maintain strong relationships to ensure robust collaboration
statewide. The KIPP Texas Managing Director of Post Secondary
Success will directly report to the Deputy Chief of School
Leadership and KIPP Forward.This position may be based out of the
Austin, Dallas, Houston, or San Antonio offices.Key
ResponsibilitiesStrategic Planning and Execution
- Develop, execute, and aggressively monitor a short and
long-term KIPP Forward strategy to ensure that our alumni are
graduating their post-secondary education within ideal time and
preparing for a career that will support alumni in leading
fulfilling lives
- Collaborate with the KIPP Texas Strategy and KIPP Forward
Teams/Regional Directors to develop a strategic plan to scale
services as alumni population growths exponentially
- Set annual goals focused on post-secondary match, persistence
and completion, career readiness, and talent development/retention
and support KIPP Forward directors in achieving said goals
- Collaborate with KTX academic leadership team to align on
statewide college counseling structure and curriculum.
- Work alongside with the Data team to review results; set
metrics for the state and region and utilize data to plan
programming.Team Leadership
- Manage, coach, and develop Regional KIPP Forward/Postsecondary
Success Directors in each of our four regions
- Build and nurture a high performing leadership team that
produces excellent outcomes for our students and alumni
- Plan and lead quarterly professional development for KIPP
Forward teammates across KIPP TexasPartnership Management
- Establish, negotiate, maintain and assess current strategic
college partnerships (2 and 4 year) to ensure that KIPP Texas
alumni are enrolled in colleges where they are likely graduate
from
- Establish and manage state-wide career partnerships that
support students and alumni career exposure, experiences and
development, in addition to multiple pathways for our students and
alumniExternal Stakeholder Management
- Support the KIPP Texas Development team on grant proposals and
reports focused on KIPP Forward programming and support
- Share knowledge and expertise across KIPP Texas on topics
relating to college completion and career success; this includes
advising school leaders and other regional/organizational leaders,
and presenting to large and small groups of KIPP TexasBoard
Management
- Provide Board of Directors with quarterly reports focused on
progress towards annual goals and present to the Board of Directors
annually
- Lead and facilitate KIPP Forward board committee meetings in
collaboration with the KIPP Texas Development
teamQualificationsSkills and Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience working with first-generation, low income and/or
underrepresented students
- Successfully leading and managing a large, high performing
team
- Track record of measurable, exemplary results
- Solution-orientation
- Unwavering belief that all KIPP Texas students can and will
finish college
- Unwavering determination to do whatever necessary to help KIPP
Texas students achieve their goals
- Ability to multitask, work collaboratively, and maintain
focus
- Track record of working effectively with different
stakeholders
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with Salesforce or similar-type student database
systems
- Comfortable using Excel and Google spreadsheets
- A car for travel to KIPP Texas schools throughout the state and
colleges and partnership institutions
- Ability to travel occasionally and other out of state training
and PDAdditional InformationCompensation and Benefits: In addition
to a competitive salary scale, a part of KIPP Texas' competitive
benefits options, KIPP offers all employees an $0 HMO plan for the
employee only. In addition to our $0 plan, KIPP provides a $600
employer contribution towards a Health Savings Account and a
variety of other supplemental benefits such as Dental, Vision,
Short and Long-Term Disability, Pet Insurance, Life, etc.
Keywords: KIPP Texas, Austin , Managing Director of Post Secondary Success, Executive , Austin, Texas
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