KIPP Jacksonville seeks an experienced school operations leader for the Sr. Director of Regional Operations position. The ideal candidate for this position will have a deep passion for social justice and educational equity for all children, clear school-based or regional operations leadership experience that oversees critical operational areas for the organization.

Managing Others

• Lead the KIPP Jacksonville operations team by managing a Director of Enrollment and Family Engagement, a regional Transportation Manager, and external vendors.
• Support through a dotted-line reporting relationship four (4) school-based Assistant Principals of School Operations to hit key school metrics in student attendance, student attrition, and day-to-day operational satisfaction metrics
• Meet regularly with each school-based Assistant Principal of School Operations to monitor progress to goals on critical deliverables
• Supports Principals in completing annual performance evaluations of school-based Assistant Principals of School Operations
• Meet regularly with the Director of Enrollment and Family Engagement and Transportation Manager to monitor progress to goals
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with school-facing vendors
• Create professional development for school-based operations team members
• Together with COO, develop strategic vision for a growing operations team that supports long-term growth

Design and Maintaining Systems

• Design, update, and/or maintain internal operations systems that allow the organization to continue to grow. These systems might include school-based operations needs, school budgeting systems, compliance reporting, risk management, inventory, or technology systems.
• Work to centralize best practices via playbooks and toolkits
• Drive efforts for greater efficiency as we grow
• Track progress of performance of the school-based operations team
• Ensure all charter-based compliance measures are met
• Other duties, as assigned

Requirements

• A deep commitment to KIPP Jakcsonville Public Schools’ mission, vision, and commitment to equity. KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools believes that our staff will represent our core values of high expectations, growth mindset, commitment to team, trust, joy, and sustainability. We search for established educators and staff who embody them.
• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of 6 years of professional experience in the education or non-profit setting
• Experience managing others
• Exemplary written and verbal communication, organizational, and project management skills (i.e. speaking to groups and designing a scope and sequence of written communications to a group)
• Ability to set large goals and then work to set interim benchmarks to meet targets
• High level of organization and keen attention to detail

Highly Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with school-based or regional operations in a non-profit charter setting
• Master’s degree