Assistant Principal of Operations (26-27)

Assistant Principal of Operations (26-27)

Full-time

Start Date: Next year opening

Department: School-based Support

Company Description

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a free, public charter school network with more than 45 Pre-K - 12 schools across Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. With over 30 years in Texas, we work together with our families and communities to prepare students for college, career, and beyond! Our schools provide a high-quality, well-rounded education built on academic success and personal growth, where all students learn and thrive in a productive, safe, and joyful way!

As one of the earliest charter networks in Texas—founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018—we hire dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join a Team and Family with an unwavering commitment to creating classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in academic success and joy.

If you are passionate about joining a mission-driven community that wants every child to "run to school," the KIPP Texas Team and Family is for you! KIPP Public Schools is a national network of public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 278 schools with nearly 16,500 educators and 190,000 students and alumni.

Job Description

Every member of the Team & Family at KIPP Texas Public Schools plays a critical role in ensuring our students have the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose - college, career and beyond. Our educators are passionate advocates for their students and their families, working tirelessly to ensure that our students have access to opportunity. In our classrooms and across the KIPP family we embrace, honor and celebrate our differences across several characteristics that construct our unique identities in our little and big KIPPsters. We are especially committed to attracting and developing individuals who share the life experiences of our students because we believe the best work we do is grounded in the realities and experiences of our families and KIPPsters.

The School Operations Team is focused on creating the conditions by which our schools can thrive by successfully driving attendance, enrollment, and school wide systems; leading safety and crisis management; and providing exemplary customer service for students, families and staff members.

The Assistant Principal of Operations (APO), a key member of the school's Leadership Team, will lead implementation and maintenance of clear operational systems while building a data-driven, service-oriented culture. This position is central to the realization of our mission as it provides the School Leader and Assistant Principals (APs) the opportunity to focus almost exclusively on teaching and learning within the schools. The APO will, therefore, be an individual who embraces innovation and continuous improvement, is willing to jump into projects, and relishes the challenge of finding ways to work smarter and more efficiently, all in support of ensuring the instructional staff and leaders can stay focused on teaching and learning.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Recruits, hires, onboards, develops and leads a high-performing team
• Builds a strong and diverse team with an inclusive culture that brings out each team member's strengths and ignites actions
• Manages and develops others toward excellence in their role and with an eye toward their long-term development
• Establishes ongoing, regular cadence to facilitate collaboration, training and support of the team
• Progress monitors execution of responsibilities of the team with a high bar for accountability in order to drive operational excellence

Creates and Drives school-based strategies to ensure kids are in seats every day and year over year

• Partners with families to set attendance expectations for new and existing families
• Ensure attendance is captured accurately every day
• Analyzes data on a daily and cumulative basis and engages with key stakeholders weekly to identify trends and key actions to improve results
• Works with school lead teams to train, invest, motivate and implement attendance procedures
• Partners with recruitment team to execute student recruitment efforts
• Oversees enrollment, onboarding, verification, and documentation compliance
• Leads development and planning of cultivation efforts that ensure both new and current families feel informed and invested in their school

Design and continually evolve school-based operations policies and procedures such as arrival and dismissal

• Implements an ongoing monitoring system that reviews and addresses family, teacher, and student feedback
• Completes safety drills, audits, and documentation on given schedule
• Ensures all staff are trained and understand relevant day to day and safety procedures
• Ensure the front office and all family-facing systems are organized, welcoming, and responsive
• Oversees regular communication rhythms with families regarding important school information

Informs and manages the school budget in partnership with the School Leader

• Provides insight into non-personnel spending and data that can be used create a budget that meets the school's current and future needs
• Leverages district tools to simplify purchasing, and ensure school is in compliance with proper account management

Partners with School Support Partners (SSP) to ensure campus is safe and well maintained

• Serves as school safety lead and main point of contact for campus emergency management and communication
• Ensures students and staff have needed access to appropriate curriculum and technology
• Partner with Facilities, Transportation, Child Nutrition, and IT teams to resolve issues quickly

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS: Required Education and Experience: 4-5 years of related work experience Minimum 3 years experience in operations or education Preferred experience in people management Bilingual: English and Spanish preferred

COMPETENCY AND SKILLS:

• Effective people manager who is energized by developing and coaching others to do their best work while fostering a positive, inclusive team culture
• Strong project and time management skills; ability to effectively backwards plan, juggle multiple priorities with great attention to detail, and deliver consistent and timely results
• Strong strategic and analytical skills with an aptitude for shifting from in moment troubleshooting to systems-building
• Ability to pause and reflect to identify opportunities to improve procedures to make them more effective
• Sense of humility, customer service mindset, and shows urgency and the ability to proactively solve problems and make decisions quickly
• Skilled at leveraging communication, understanding of the perspectives of internal and external stakeholders, and collaborative approach to navigate complex and sometimes ambiguous situations in order to get work done
• Ability to be calm under pressure, especially in difficult conversations with families and staff
• Desire to continuously learn and evolve as a professional

Physical Requirements:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The person in this position needs to be able to move about inside and outside the school throughout the workday. The candidate is expected to attend conferences, meetings and training sessions both virtually and in person within the Region.

Additional Requirements:

• Reliable transportation is needed for travel between campuses
• Ability to maintain emotional control under stress. Work with frequent interruptions.

Work Environment:

• Reports to school site Monday-Friday. Typical school environment with frequent interruptions.

Travel Requirements:

• Minimal travel; may travel to other school sites or regional offices for professional learning or meetings.

Additional Information

What We Bring to the Table:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage options for employees and their families.
• Competitive vacation and flexible paid time off (PTO) policies. Paid family leave.
• Flexible spending account or high-yield HSA.
• Employee assistance programs.
• KIPP also offers the following employee-paid benefits: legal plans, LifeLock identity protection, life insurance and disability insurance.

EEO:

• KIPP Texas is an Equal Opportunity Employer. KIPP Texas ensures equal employment