Full-Time Director, Formal Learning

About The Position As the Director of Formal Learning, you will lead KIPP Foundation's efforts to ensure every principal manager in every region is equipped and inspired to drive excellent instructional and talent leadership in schools—while maintaining an unwavering focus on increasing the number of students who thrive in school and graduate from the college of their choice. You will design and execute a vision for onboarding and ongoing development that results in principal managers growing the skills they need to be successful in their roles—and choosing to stay and lead at KIPP.

In partnership with Foundation teams and regional leaders, you will create cohesive, high-impact learning experiences that build the capacity of principal managers to coach principals, lead teams, and deliver on our academic and cultural commitments to KIPPsters.

The ideal candidate will be deeply committed to racial and educational equity and will bring a strong orientation toward impact and continuous improvement.

This position reports to the Senior Director, Formal Learning.

Responsibilities

1. Principal Manager Formal Learning: Own the strategy, design, and execution of a comprehensive, outcomes-driven formal learning experience for principal managers across the KIPP network. This includes:
2. Lead the design, facilitation, and continuous improvement of multiple-day, in-person, and virtual professional development experiences for principal managers that are grounded in adult learning best practices, aligned to KIPP's leadership competency model, and tailored to network needs.
3. Ensure strong in-region follow-up to ensure effective application of learning from centralized professional development programming
4. Set the vision for and facilitate a dynamic monthly Community of Practice that fosters learning, collaboration, and problem-solving among principal managers across the network.
5. Lead the creation of monthly, high-quality, turnkey professional development sessions for two critical audiences: (1) resources that principal manager supervisors can use to develop their principal managers, and (2) resources that principal managers can use to develop their principals.
6. Co-design and support the execution of the New Principal Manager Cohort experience, ensuring new leaders are set up for success from the start through targeted onboarding and community-building.

Principal Manager In-Region Coaching: Take full ownership of developing and scaling coaching tools, practices, and supports that build the capacity of principal managers and, in turn, drive stronger principal and school performance.

This includes:

• Design, build, and continuously improve a suite of high-impact tools and products aligned to the KIPP Leadership Competency Model that support regions and the Foundation in the effective coaching and development of principal managers and principals.
• Identify, curate, and organize exemplary leadership practices from across the KIPP network that illustrate high proficiency in core leadership competencies. Ensure these models are accessible, actionable, and embedded in coaching and development efforts networkwide.
• Establish and maintain regular, strategic communication with professional development program leads across KIPP Foundation and KIPP regions to ensure alignment, share insights, and spotlight tools and practices that advance principal manager development.
• Provide direct, targeted in-region and virtual coaching to principal managers that builds their leadership skill proficiency and directly contributes to improved principal effectiveness and stronger student and school outcomes.

Principal Formal Learning: Contribute to the strategy, design, and execution of a comprehensive, outcomes-driven formal learning experience for principals across the KIPP network.

This includes:

• Lead the design, facilitation, and continuous improvement of multiple-day, in-person, and virtual professional development experiences for principals grounded in adult learning best practices, aligned to KIPP's leadership competency model, and tailored to network needs.
• Ensure strong in-region follow-up to ensure effective application of learning from centralized professional development programming.
• Support the execution of the New Principal Cohort experience, ensuring new leaders are set up for success from the start through targeted onboarding and community-building.

Skills and Mindsets

• Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPP’s mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold KIPP’s core values.
• Demonstrated record of setting ambitious goals and achieving them with consistency.
• Able to build and align goals and project plans with organization priorities.
• Efficiently defines the right metrics to evaluate work and ensures critical team actions, decisions, and recommendations are driven by data.
• Has the interpersonal, diplomatic, relationship building, and communications skills necessary to develop successful working relationships with diverse constituents to deliver results.

Experience and Qualifications

• 7+ years of work experience with creating and delivering formal learning systems in an organization with national reach.
• 3+ years of work experience as a principal manager or coaching principal managers.
• Experience coaching principal managers highly preferred.
• Experience working in virtual environments with teammates across multiple time zones.
• Familiarity with virtual learning platforms highly preferred.

Work Conditions

• Travel requirements: 20%

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary range: $120,000 - $145,000

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