Jobs at KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program)

Leads a cohort of school principals to improve student outcomes, academic excellence, school culture, and operational performance. Provides coaching, evaluations, professional development, data analysis, crisis support, succession planning, and strategic guidance. Collaborates with regional leaders, families, community partners, and external stakeholders while supporting compliance, planning, staffing, scheduling, and continuous improvement across KIPP Nashville schools.

Leads implementation and compliance for K–12 assessment programs across KIPP Texas. Manages assessment distribution, registration, testing logistics, data processing, accommodations, technology platforms, and state and national testing requirements. Supervises Campus Testing Coordinators, delivers professional development, supports school teams, manages resources and stipends, and promotes timely, accurate assessment data for instructional decision-making.

Leads college access, persistence, and completion strategies across two southern KIPP regions, 15–17 high schools, and approximately 1,500–1,800 seniors. Coaches school and regional leaders, monitors enrollment and completion data, improves college and career programming, manages strategic initiatives and resources, facilitates professional development, and collaborates across KIPP teams and external partners. The role drives measurable postsecondary outcomes and includes up to 30% travel.

The Director of Events establishes event standards, owns the annual calendar, designs and executes large-scale events, manages budgets and vendors, negotiates contracts, and leads event teams across four regions. The role includes frequent travel, day-of event command, project planning, communications, regional coaching, and development of an event playbook and vendor network.

Leads full-cycle recruitment for assigned KIPP Texas schools or departments. Responsibilities include sourcing, recruitment campaigns, university and community outreach, job fairs, candidate screening, applicant tracking, hiring manager partnership, candidate experience management, recruitment metrics, and maintaining diverse talent pipelines. The role is hybrid and requires travel within Texas or nationally up to 20%.

Leads KIPP NYC’s individual giving strategy, managing a portfolio of 75–100 donors and family foundation prospects. Responsibilities include cultivating and soliciting major gifts, developing proposals and stewardship plans, leading donor events, building prospect pipelines, analyzing fundraising data, forecasting revenue, and partnering with executives, board members, and school teams to advance philanthropic support.

Provides school-based nursing care for students, including administering medications, managing health records and immunizations, conducting screenings, responding to illnesses and injuries, developing care plans, preventing communicable diseases, supporting families with health resources, and advising school staff. The nurse also maintains supplies, ensures student safety, and participates in occasional events outside regular school hours.

Leads instructional quality, staff coaching, student culture, family engagement, postsecondary readiness, and daily school operations. Partners with the School Leader to develop educators, analyze student and school performance data, improve behavior and academic systems, support college and career pathways, coordinate schoolwide initiatives, and advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging across the high school community.

Leads instructional excellence at a high school by coaching teachers, overseeing curriculum and assessment systems, analyzing student and staff data, facilitating professional learning, and supporting college, career, workforce, and military readiness. Partners with school leadership to set academic priorities, improve student outcomes, strengthen inclusive teaching practices, and maintain a safe, joyful school culture.

Leads instructional outcomes for a high school humanities grade level or content area. Coaches and evaluates teachers, analyzes achievement data, designs professional development, reinforces student and staff culture, engages families, and manages talent performance. The role focuses on improving student achievement, developing educators, maintaining high expectations, and fostering an inclusive school community.

Leads end-to-end data architecture, engineering pipelines, semantic-layer development, data quality, monitoring, and platform operations. Manages agile sprint planning, release delivery, DevOps metrics, and cross-functional project plans. Establishes MLOps and machine-learning platform capabilities, mentors data engineers, manages team members, and ensures reliable, well-governed data solutions for business intelligence and reporting.

Leads end-to-end data architecture, engineering pipelines, ETL, data modeling, quality monitoring, and Tableau BI platform operations. Partners with stakeholders to define requirements, manage project plans, lead agile sprints, and deliver reliable data solutions. Establishes governance, security, performance, and continuous improvement practices while developing AI-enabled analytics capabilities. Mentors data engineers and manages team performance, documentation, dependencies, and delivery across multiple workstreams.

Manages academic special projects, professional development logistics, resource organization, assessment support, compliance reporting, budgets, vendor contracts, procurement, and student support documentation. Coordinates communications, learning materials, events, surveys, and academic team operations across schools and regional offices. The role requires strong systems thinking, relationship-building, cultural competence, and experience in urban education, district-office academic functions, and professional development.

Provides comprehensive executive support to the Chief of Staff, including complex calendar and travel management, meeting preparation, communications, expense reporting, budget tracking, compliance reports, and confidential issue handling. Serves as a liaison among senior leaders, families, board members, staff, and external stakeholders. Coordinates public information requests, special projects, and administrative operations while maintaining alignment with organizational priorities and KIPP Texas values.

Provides behavioral and student support services for high school students with special needs. Responsibilities include conducting functional behavior assessments, developing and monitoring behavior intervention plans, coaching teachers and service providers, analyzing behavior data, facilitating staff and parent workshops, monitoring student behavior, and responding to disruptive or aggressive incidents using trained crisis intervention and physical management techniques.

Leads KIPP NYC’s complex, multi-entity payroll function, overseeing payroll operations, compliance, internal controls, UKG systems, vendors, employee service, and process improvement. Manages and develops a payroll team while partnering with Finance, People Operations, FP&A, Accounting, school leaders, and external providers. Ensures accurate, timely, compliant payroll processing, strengthens data integrity, resolves systemic issues, and supports payroll accounting, budgeting, audits, and organizational growth.

The Manager, Staff Accountant supports general ledger operations, journal entries, account reconciliations, monthly and year-end close, financial reporting, audit preparation, and GAAP compliance. The role investigates discrepancies, maintains accurate financial documentation, partners with Finance and school-based teams, and contributes to process and system improvements. This hybrid position is based in Midtown Manhattan and includes travel to KIPP NYC campuses.

Leads KIPP NYC’s HR technology ecosystem, including HCM strategy, configuration, integrations, data governance, payroll controls, reporting, and system optimization. Oversees cross-functional implementations, process improvements, vendor relationships, project governance, change management, and employee service delivery. Partners with People, Payroll, Finance, IT, and school teams to ensure accurate, secure, compliant, and scalable employee lifecycle operations while translating workforce data into actionable organizational insights.

Manage KIPP NYC’s full-cycle accounts payable operations, including invoices, reimbursements, vendor records, payment runs, controls, compliance, audits, reporting, and close support. Lead process improvements, systems initiatives, vendor relationships, and team development while ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial services across schools and regional teams.

Leads the design, implementation, monitoring, and refinement of instructional systems across KIPP Texas schools. Builds assessment trackers, progress monitoring tools, dashboards, workflows, and reporting structures; coaches school leadership teams on data-driven instructional routines; monitors implementation quality and consistency; identifies system gaps; and partners with academic leaders to improve usability, execution, teaching quality, and student outcomes.