The Deputy Chief (DC) Schools Officer, Superintendent of Schools is charged with leading a cohort of schools to deliver KIPP Texasâ ambitious vision of becoming the highest performing, large school system in the state. Responsible for internalizing and translating statewide strategy into school-level plans and initiatives, the DC Schools Officer, Superintendent of Schools acts as the primary catalyst for strategic implementation. They own the execution of statewide academic priorities to achieve break-through results, foster a joyful and rigorous culture, and guarantee that every school is a place where students can thrive and persist.
The DC Schools Officer, Superintendent of Schools leads and manages a high-performing school management team focused on rapidly improving student outcomes and scaling a culture of excellence. They operate with a focus on organizational health, ensuring every school has the leadership, financial, and operational resources necessary to produce consistent, high-quality results.
The role serves as a statewide system-level leader accountable for portfolio-wide school performance. This role directly coaches and develops senior school leaders, helps shape system-wide instructional leadership strategy, and partners closely with the Chief Schools Officer to drive statewide results. The position is intentionally structured as part of the executive leadership bench, cultivating readiness for future executive leadership opportunities.
Academic Execution and Oversight
- Hold portfolio-level accountability for academic outcomes across a statewide cohort of KIPP Texas schools.
- Interpret and execute KIPP Texas Public Schoolsâ statewide academic strategy for a portfolio of schools, translating priorities into clear expectations and non-negotiables.
- Demonstrate strong expertise and a proven track record of excellent results as a leader within one or more horizontal educational communities (primary, middle, and/or high school).
- Ensure consistent, high-quality implementation of instructional models, academic systems, and student culture practices aligned to state standards.
- Set and enforce execution expectations across the portfolio of assigned schools, addressing variability in implementation quality and student outcomes across regions.
- Manage change across KIPP Texas 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.
- Partner with the Chief Schools Officer and school management leadership to ensure alignment to established multi-year academic, operational, and financial aims.
Leadership and Academic Health Strategy
- Ensure Little KIPPsters enroll, thrive, and persist in their assigned portfolio of schools across KIPP Texas.
- Serve as the portfolioâs instructional leadership expert, with deep knowledge in key horizontal focus areas such as early literacy, STAAR performance, AP courses, Texas state accountability measures, and the effective use of acceleration and intervention tools, among others.
- Lead academic health monitoring across the assigned cohort of schools using multiple data sources to assess instructional quality, student learning, and system effectiveness.
- Lead diagnostic reviews for schools not meeting academic benchmarks and to implement strategic academic interventions.
- Design and provide oversight improvement plans focused on improving teacher classroom effectiveness and student performance.
- Serve as the cohort-level 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.
Lead a high-performing team to deliver transformational educational outcomes for students
- Lead and develop a high-performing team of school leaders and school leader managers who are accountable for academic and operational outcomes across the portfolio of schools in all four KIPP Texas regions
- Drive results across KIPP Texas, including progress tracking, monitoring, and reporting, holding team and self accountable to short and long term outcomes and ensuring instructional excellence, and a joyful student and staff culture.
- Foster a culture of high expectations, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Talent Development and Pipeline Partnership
- Provide direct coaching, development, and performance management to their team, empowering them to effectively coach, develop, and lead their portfolios of school leadership teams to achieve strong results.
- Develop and sustain leadership pipelines through targeted coaching and development practices for leaders focusing on instructional, cultural and operational leadership.
- Partner with KIPP Texas talent teams to address pipeline risks and strengthen leader readiness.
- Promote KIPP Texas talent strategy and recruit, develop, and retain high-performing teachers, assistant principals, school leaders, heads of schools, and regional support team members.
Cross-Regional Collaboration and Organizational Leadership
- Serve as a steward of coherence across geographical regions by identifying gaps, elevating risks, and reinforcing adherence to core academic execution.
- Collaborate with KIPP Texas teams to align supports, remove barriers, and accelerate achievement of organizational health priorities.
- Operate horizontally across KIPP Texas geographic regions to drive consistency, coherence and equity in execution of strategic plans.
- Build and promote the KIPP Texas brand within the market as the face of a portfolio of KIPP Texas schools as evidenced by relationships with parents, funders, community members and stakeholders.
- Build coalitions, relationships, and partnerships with key external stakeholders in support of the organizationâs mission and goals.