Full-Time Vice President, Technology

About The Position Reports To: Chief Information Officer

The KIPP Foundation is seeking a Vice President of Technology who will provide strategic leadership on the organization’s technology infrastructure and how we support the KIPP network of 28 regions.

Responsibilities

1. Vision Setting and Strategic Planning: Develop and implement a strategic technology plan that aligns with the organization’s mission and goals to work with 28 KIPP regions to achieve efficiency and scale. Uses high quality data, research, and analysis to set a high bar of excellence for goal setting and ensures critical team actions, decisions, and recommendations are driven by data.
2. Technology Management and Application Development: Oversee the management of the organization’s technology infrastructure, including hardware, software, and network systems. Oversee the architecture, design, and development of complex solutions using KIPP’s technology platforms. Convert business requirements into technical design specifications and provide hands-on technical leadership to development and integration projects with internal and external/vendor teams.
3. Team Leadership and Management: Lead a technology team of 10-15 employees, including managing through layers, setting the bar of excellence for hiring decisions, performance management, and promotion criteria. Provide professional development, mentorship, and coaching to the technology team to foster a culture focused on outcomes, learning, innovation, and continuous improvement. Provide change leadership, the articulating the case for change in alignment with organization priorities and producing compelling, tailored communication to introduce change or new initiatives to a variety of audience.
4. Process and Project Management: Sets rigorous goals in alignment with org-wide priorities, and in collaboration with KIPP Foundation functional leads and regional leadership team members, coordinate implementation of cohesive technology projects, from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and in alignment with org wide priorities. Create systems and conditions that allow for work to be documented, codified, and scaled to promote efficiency and maximize effectiveness. Establish and maintain relationships with technology vendors and service providers. Ensure that the organization’s technology systems are secure and compliant with relevant regulations and standards. Develop and manage the technology budget, ensuring that resources are allocated effectively.

Skills and Mindsets

• Mission and Student Focus: Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPP’s mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold KIPP’s core values.
• Achievement & Outcomes Orientation: Demonstrated record of setting and achieving ambitious goals for their departments in complex or ambiguous environment; uses data, research, and analysis to set a high bar of excellence for goal setting; effectively distributes and redistributes work among direct reports, teammates, and teams to optimizes goal attainments; effectively sets and fosters a culture that enables and celebrates teammates’ achievements and goals attainment.
• Process Management: Able to build and align goals and project plans with organization priorities; Develops and codifies processes that promote coordination, efficiency and efficacy across KF and the Network; Prioritizes processes that ensure sustainability and scalability; ensures team is finding efficiencies through process implementation and improvement, resource sharing, or other methods.
• Effective Work Management: Sets a clear vision that ensures alignment of the team’s work to organizational goals. Effectively prioritizes and delivers on work products that ensure sustainability and scalability of work. Develops and implements agile project plans that ensures cross functional collaboration and resource sharing to ensure achieving organizational goals; creates and ensures systems are in place for knowledge management.
• People Management and Development: Effectively ensures strong professional development and coaching for teammates through layers; proficient in the mechanics of succession management and performance management for teammates; able to coach manager of managers; skilled at setting and fostering a positive team culture in which teammates feel ownership and accountability for their own and the broader team’s work and results.
• Change Management and Communications: Effectively articulates case for change to multiple functions, teams, and/or offices through clear and compelling presentations, tailoring communications and engagement approach for different audiences. Effectively translates vision into actionable plans among across team stakeholders; Champions KF and networkwide change with all stakeholders.
• Self-Awareness: Practices self-awareness at work, understanding that it is foundational to leading self, leading people, and leading results; uses reflection, self-understanding, and feedback to grow, and persist through challenges, and as a result, are cognizant of the impact of their behavior on others, and intentional about the decision to adjust or not adjust their behaviors. Displays an owner’s mindset by taking ownership of successes and failure.

Experience and Qualifications Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 10+ years of experience in technology management, with at least 8+ years in a leadership role that includes (1) managing teams of 10-15 employees and through layers and (2) overseeing the strategic direction and management of a company’s technological initiatives.

Job Type Full-time, exempt role

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $190,000-227,000.

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