Senior Vice President, Growth

Senior Vice President, Growth

The SVP, Growth is a role with direct accountability for the success of work that impacts the entire KIPP network. This role sets the vision, goals, and strategy for KIPP's growth function - stewarding the criteria and readiness frameworks that determine where growth should happen, shaping the long-term portfolio plan, and holding the network accountable for growing with rigor. Every new school, every expanded region, and every scale decision must be grounded in evidence, anchored in student outcomes, and designed to hold up over the long term.

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, this role operates as a senior partner to the Chief Schools Officer and CEO—setting vision and strategy for the growth function and making network-level decisions on growth policy and priorities. The SVP is accountable for both defining the vision and ensuring its execution through their team. The SVP, Growth holds network-wide strategic accountability, partners with Chief-level leaders to make consequential organization wide decisions, and manages one Senior Director of Growth.

Responsibilities include defining and owning KIPP's enterprise-wide growth and scale strategy, setting the vision and standards for how KIPP grows as a network, establishing the methodology and criteria by which regions are tagged as viability risks, serving as the primary senior voice on growth to the Chief Schools Officer, Chief of Regional Impact, CEO, and Board, leading the Foundation's partnership with regions pursuing opportunistic growth, establishing and leading the progress-monitoring systems that keep growth plans on track, identifying cross-regional growth patterns, scale effective practices across the portfolio, addressing systemic gaps, leading, developing and managing the performance of the Senior Director of Growth to drive regional growth partnerships, readiness assessment, and landscape analysis, building a culture of accountability, learning, and continuous improvement, and representing the Growth function in executive decision-making forums, cross-functional planning, and Board-level growth updates.

Skills and mindsets include demonstrating passion and commitment to KIPP's mission and possessing the desire and ability to uphold KIPP's core values, self-management, work management, process management, data-driven actions and decisions, communication and change management, collaboration, and people management & development.

Experience and qualifications include 12+ years of progressive experience in strategy, growth, network development, or related enterprise leadership roles, ideally in K-12 education or a comparable mission-driven environment, proven track record of managing and developing people managers across nested teams of 4 or more direct reports with measurable impact on their performance and the organizational outcomes they drive, direct accountability for network-wide strategic priorities with demonstrated outcomes that impacted all regions or the full network, proven track record of designing and maintaining readiness or assessment frameworks grounded in data, strong analytical and strategic skills, executive presence and ability to make network-level decisions with autonomy while serving as a credible senior thought partner to C-suite leaders and regional boards, and demonstrated record of partnering with regional or field-based leaders to translate national strategy into executable plans tailored to local context, while maintaining network-wide coherence.

Additional Information

Work conditions include high travel requirements of 21-30% (40-60 days per year) and job type of full time, exempt. The preferred location for this role is a KIPP Foundation office, but remote work is also an option. Compensation and benefits include a salary range of [$249,600 - $295,000], 25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days, 100% paid parental leave, 100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family's medical/dental/vision plans, wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program, and finance security benefits including a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.