Director of Talent Development

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 59 public charter, open-enrollment, pre-k-12 schools educating nearly 34,000 students across Austin, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Together with families and communities, our mission is to create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose —college, career, and beyond—so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more fair world.

Founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, we are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. KIPP Texas is a team and family with an unwavering commitment to creating classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in belongingness, academic success and joy.

KIPP Texas is part of the national KIPP network of 255 college-preparatory public charter schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Nationwide, KIPP students complete four-year college at a rate of 36 percent, comparable to the national average for all students.

The Director of Talent Development plays a key role in accelerating student achievement across KIPP Texas by driving excellence in formal and on-the ground professional learning.. Reporting to the Managing Director, this leader is responsible for implementing high-impact, data-driven professional learning and coaching experiences that build the proficiency and retention of our emerging campus leaders and ensure alignment to our KTX frameworks. The Director directly supports KIPP Texas’s promise to families by ensuring leaders are equipped to improve teacher practice and student outcomes.

Key Responsibilities and Duties
Design & Deliver High-Impact Professional Learning
● Facilitate professional learning aligned to the KIPP Texas Teacher Quality vision and 70/20/10 learning model.
● Support the planning and delivery of statewide and regional development experiences tailored to the needs of returning and novice leaders.
● Drive systems for ensuring all professional learning created by the Academics team is high quality and meets the bar of excellence in design.
● Drive excellence in professional learning logistics to ensure that the focus is on content delivery
● Serve as Site Lead for large scale professional learning events such as Summer Professional Learning.

● Ensure quality facilitation of professional learning by creating and execution of train the trainer and feedback systems across the Academics team.
● Support the design and execution of asynchronous learning across the state with a focus on required training and supporting mid-year instructional hires. Drive Academic Excellence through Strategic Cross-Departmental Collaboration
● Partner with the Academics (Instructional Excellence, Curriculum & Instruction) and School Management teams to ensure novice leaders are supported in delivering academic results and developing proficiency as instructional leaders.
● Align coaching and learning experiences to meet the following system-level goals:
          ○ 85% of professional learning participants agree the experience supported their growth in alignment with               the Framework for Effective Teaching.
          ○ 70% of Critical Need Teachers coached by novice leaders earn an Effective+ rating on priority                             indicators.

Coach & Develop Instructional Leaders
● Provide responsive, role-specific coaching and support to a portfolio of leaders across the state, with a focus but not limited to novice instructional coaches, in the following areas:
○ Leading teacher quality through the Framework for Effective Teaching
○ Leading content through curriculum-aligned practices
○ Leading assessment through strong data practices
● Support leaders in using student and teacher performance data to drive decision-making and adapt leadership practices.
● Provide required coaching and support for current Year 2 Principals in Residence and PIR alums.

Use Data to Drive a Multi-Tiered Approach to Development & Intervention
● Monitor leader progress and proactively identify areas for targeted support and coaching.
● Leverage real-time data to adjust coaching strategy, differentiate support, and inform broader learning designs.
● Track and report on the impact of professional learning and coaching initiatives for their assigned portfolio
● Using data to partner with regional and school leaders to ensure all teachers get the required observations as part of the KTX Teacher Evaluation System, in partnership with Talent Management.

Contribute to a Strong, Inclusive Team Culture
● Participate in team planning, calibration, and continuous improvement efforts
● Contribute to a culture of feedback, innovation, and shared responsibility for student success.
● Support the vision of the Managing Director by aligning day-to-day coaching with long-term talent development strategy.

Requirements
● Bachelor’s degree required
● School leadership and management experience preferred
● Demonstrated orientation in competency development
● Demonstrated proficiency in leading through change, executing on major initiatives, and leading cross-departmental work
● Demonstrated excellence in leading professional learning
● Demonstrated orientation to coaching and developing teachers and leaders
● Demonstrated excellence to on-the-ground observation/feedback cycles with teachers and leaders
● Demonstrated achievement in partnership development, including an ability to mobilize people and create champions to support an organizational mission
● Evidence of developing and executing against a strategy with strong results
● Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)

Skills
● Communication: Clear, concise, compelling communication.

● Professionalism and trusting relationships: Operate with professional demeanor in even the most challenging situations. Work with teammates, teachers, leaders, and regional stakeholders, in a way that demonstrates confidence, initiative, and dedication to meeting commitments. Expresses professional presence with external stakeholders in a way that exemplifies KIPP’s values in person, verbally, in writing, on social media, and at events.
● Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making: Ability to analyze data and make strategic interventions to help close gaps in data being presented (student achievement, school culture, etc).
● Organizational ability and accuracy (strategic planning and prioritization): excellent attention to detail in written communication, exemplary calendar management, commitment to data fidelity, and consistency in executing next steps.
● Impact and influence: Ability to impact and influence stakeholders to action based on compelling recommendations based in data
● Continuous learning: Investing in one self to continually learn and make impactful growth in focus areas.
● Systems thinking and change management: Ability to develop problem statements, analyze data and provide recommendations at a systems level that designs talent development systems to appropriate scale and helps stakeholders navigate through change and evolutions

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 functions.
• Considerable time is spent at a desk using a computer/laptop
• Attending conferences or training sessions
• Maintain emotional control under stress
• Communicate effectively (verbal and written)

Work Environment:

● When in office; typical office environment with frequent interruptions
● When on school site; lots of movement between classrooms, offices, and community spaces
● Hybrid work - in office/at schools a minimum of 3 days a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
● Typical office environment with frequent interruptions.

Travel Requirements
● Ability to travel within region and occasionally across the state
● Travel time approximately 10-20%

KIPP provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or disability.