Director of Professional Learning

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About KIPP Texas Public Schools

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 54 public charter, open-enrollment, pre-k-12 schools educating nearly 32,000 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 fair world.

Founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, we are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. KIPP Texas is a team and family with an unwavering commitment to creating classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in collaboration, academic success and joy.

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 278 schools, nearly 15,000 educators, and 123,000 students and alumni.

Job Description

About the Opportunity

The Director of Professional Learning & Talent Programs will lead and champion the vision for excellence in professional learning through quality design and execution of the onboarding and professional learning for key roles in KIPP Texas, at scale.  The DPLTP will manage the recommended leader professional learning scope and sequence and collaborate with other departments on design and execution with year-long cohesion to support and operationalize instructional coaching and competency development in our school-based teachers and leaders.  The DPLTP will also lead the systematic process of identifying, nurturing, and advancing school-based leaders within an organization to fill current and future roles effectively.  They will actively oversee the progress of individuals in the talent pipeline, tracking their development, providing support and resources as needed, and ensuring that there is alignment between the organization's strategic goals and the skills and capabilities of individuals in the pipeline.

Key Duties

Professional Learning Vision & Implementation : Oversee the preparation, execution and in-field follow up of professional learning aligned to the KIPP Texas Academic Strategy setting vision for teacher Summer and in-year Professional Learning; coordinating multi-tiered professional learning for instructional leaders and teachers grounded in instruction, pedagogy, and content.

Professional Learning Design & Execute :   Lead the design and facilitation of session content grounded in instruction, pedagogy, and content; coordinate with other functional teams on session design to ensure high-quality content aligned to adult learning principles.

Professional Learning Project Management : Project manage professional learning experiences designed by the Academics team including but not limited to Summer Professional Learning, Leader and Teacher Intensives, Professional Learning days, and Wednesday PLCs.

Monitor Outcomes : Set vision on and tracking success metrics  to support with progress of PL session execution and mastery of content

Cross-departmental partnerships : Manage key partnership relationships with internal partners in service of executing a clear, comprehensive Cohesive Professional Learning strategy.

Team Management : As needed, build a results-driven, mission-oriented team culture for any direct reports through establishing a clear vision for success; hire, build, develop and retain strong performers; demonstrate clear, concise direction, feedback, and coaching; hold direct reports accountable for meeting targets and adjusting course as necessary in pursuit of goals.

• Team Leader : serve as a key leader on the greater Professional Learning team; collaborate with team leaders to enhance state-wide strategy and evolve in service of the pursuit of transforming student results and eventually serving 100,000 KIPPsters in KIPP schools state-wide

Additional Responsibilities and Duties

Provide exemplary support to clients, including SSP leaders, school management teams and Assistant Principals / Principals in service of instruction, pedagogy, and content development on campuses.

Serves as an organizational leader on academic strategy, providing insight and expertise to strategic planning as well as organizational values-driven initiatives and plans.

Operate with exemplary team spirit with eagerness to demonstrate flexibility and contribute to the overall needs of the team as they arise.

Qualifications

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required

2+ years of teaching pk-12 with a strong record of results, 2+ years designing and facilitating adult training, 2+ years in roles involving instructional coaching required

Demonstrated proficiency in leading through change, executing on major initiatives, and leading cross-departmental work

Demonstrated excellence in designing professional learning

Demonstrated orientation to streamlining cross-departmental needs in service of end-use experience

Demonstrated excellence in professional learning design and project management

Demonstrated achievement in partnership development, including an ability to mobilize people and create champions to support an organizational mission

Evidence of developing and executing against a strategy with strong results

Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)

Skills

Communication : Clear, concise, compelling communication.

Professionalism and trusting relationships : Operate with professional demeanor in even the most challenging situations. Work with teammates, teachers, leaders, and regional stakeholders, in a way that demonstrates confidence, initiative, and dedication to meeting commitments. Expresses professional presence with external stakeholders in a way that exemplifies KIPP’s values in person, verbally, in writing, on social media, and at events.

Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making : Ability to analyze data and make strategic design (professional learning and cohort programming) to help close gaps in data being presented (student achievement, school culture, etc).

Organizational ability and accuracy (strategic planning and prioritization) : excellent attention to detail in written communication, exemplary calendar management, commitment to data fidelity, and consistency in executing next steps.

Impact and influence : Ability to impact and influence stakeholders to action based on compelling recommendations based in data

Continuous learning : Investing in one self to continually learn and make impactful growth in focus areas.

Systems thinking and change management : Ability to develop problem statements, analyze data and provide recommendations at a systems level that designs talent development systems to appropriate scale and helps stakeholders navigate through change and evolutions

Physical Requirements :

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

Considerable time is spent at a desk using a computer / laptop

Attending conferences or training sessions

Maintain emotional control under stress

Communicate effectively (verbal and written)

Work Environment :

In office or school site at least 3x per week

When in office; typical office environment with frequent interruptions

When on school site; lots of movement between classrooms, offices, and community spaces

Travel Requirements

Ability to travel to various locations, travel time approximately 15-20%.

Additional Information

KIPP provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.