Resume Drop Note: We review School Leader resumes on a rolling basis to build a long-term talent pipeline. This is not an active vacancy, and submitting your resume will not initiate an immediate interview process. Our team periodically reviews submissions to identify potential future matches and will reach out if/when there’s alignment with a posted opening.
Job Description
At KIPP, the School Leader drives student-centered outcomes by leading self, leading people, and leading results, creating conditions for adults and students to thrive. Grounded in student focus, they set a compelling vision and rigorous goals, then organize time, people, and resources to achieve them. School Leaders at KIPP devote the majority of their time to instructional leadership—planning and prioritizing, solving problems, making decisions, and creating data routines that distinguish outcomes from effort to drive results. They build trusting relationships; cultivate a joyful team culture, and develop and manage people through clear expectations, frequent coaching/feedback, and accountability. Ultimately, in partnership with families, staff, and the community, our School Leaders build joyful, academically excellent, identity-affirming schools that prepare students to pursue the paths they choose in life.
As a KIPP New Orleans School Leader, your core responsibilities include:
- Set ambitious school-wide vision and goals, aligned with the KIPP New Orleans region, that lead students on a path to a life of unlimited opportunity:
- Analyze assessment data and set goals for ongoing improvement in coordination with other administrators and teachers
- Share the school’s mission with the community and lead team members in actively engaging the community to support and assist in accomplishing that mission
- Ensure compliance with all policies and state and federal laws
- Plan and prioritize time and resources to achieve annual goals:
- Drive the creation of systems and the initiative to create the necessary instructional leadership, management, and curriculum support
- Ensure that the school curriculum and programming aligns with the mission, beliefs, priorities, and initiatives of KIPP New Orleans Schools
- Establish a leadership team with a clear vision and understanding of their roles and responsibilities in regards to operations, budgeting and compliance and provide necessary oversight and guidance
- Cultivate a diverse, high-potential school leadership pipeline (from teacher leader to AP to successor) and develop leadership team members by teaching and insisting that they are true owners of the work and coaching and assigning stretch activities
- Develop teachers to provide rigorous and high quality instruction:
- Lead analysis of and develop teachers’ ability to analyze student data to identify strategies that will move students toward mastery
- Regularly observe and coach instructional coaches to ensure they are providing high-impact, actionable and bite-sized feedback to teachers on a weekly basis
- Ensure teachers can collaborate, analyze their practice and their student data, and adjust instruction in content teams
- Lead whole-school professional development workshops that drive highest-impact improvements in teacher practice
- Model expectations for leaders, teachers, and students on school-wide practices for a positive learning culture
- Support efforts to make all staff members feel valued and successful including recognizing and rewarding outstanding performance and behavior
- Provide guidance and oversight of the leadership team and teachers as they work proactively to develop a student discipline management system that enhances the school environment develops excellent student character, and positive student behavior
- Work in coordination with Talent and Human Resources teams to recruit, interview, select and onboard diverse, highly-effective staff
- Build own and school staff’s knowledge and expertise in effective instructional design and academic standards
- Develop teachers’ conceptual understanding of what students must know and be able to do and what instructional methods drive student mastery
- Develop knowledge of how standards map to curriculum and assessment
- Cultivate School Leader’s own success and sustainability by engaging lifelines and renewing to get stronger