KIPP Colorado Public Schools

KIPP Colorado Public Schools

Senior Vice President, Growth

New York, NY, United States · Exec

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About the role

  • We embody a one-team mindset by working collaboratively across teams, aligning goals, and leveraging the strengths of all teammates.
  • We provide clarity through simple, repeatable systems and goals that enable transformational outcomes.
  • Courageous Action: Our belief in what we can achieve is unwavering, fueling our optimism and commitment to overcome any challenge.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Foundation's partnership with regions pursuing opportunistic growth-driving strategy, ensuring accountability, and working through peer leaders for thought partnership and analytical support to translate ambition into executable plans.
  • Establish and lead the progress-monitoring systems that keep growth plans on track; exercise sound judgment about when course correction is needed and escalate risks to the Chief of Regional Impact and C-suite.
  • Lead, develop and manage the performance of the Senior Director of Growth to drive regional growth partnerships, readiness assessment, and landscape analysis.
  • 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
  • Leads successful collaboration across functions and evolves plans to get strong results.
  • Has the interpersonal, diplomatic, relationships building and communication skills to connect and compel teammates across different functions to collaborate effectively toward shared goals.
  • Skilled at fostering a positive team culture in which teammates feel ownership and accountability for their own and the broader team's work and results.
  • 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.
  • Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.
  • The KIPP Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP public charter schools across the country.

Requirements

  • Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPP's mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold KIPP's core values (Focus on Excellent Results, Collective Impact, and Courageous Action)
  • Define and own KIPP's enterprise-wide growth and scale strategy-including multi-year targets, portfolio priorities, and the conditions required for sustainable expansion.
  • Establish the methodology and criteria by which regions are tagged as viability risks and oversee an assessment of those regions to determine what's required for long term sustainability and success.
  • 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.

Skills

  • About the Organization
  • Identifies and leverages opportunities with both internal and external stakeholders to increase impact.

Benefits

  • The SVP is accountable for both defining the vision and ensuring its execution through their team.
  • Sets a clear vision that ensures alignment of the teams work to organizational goals.

Company info

  • Together with families and communities, we 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 just world.
  • Our vision: Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.
  • The KIPP Foundation helps to develop outstanding educators to lead KIPP schools; provides tools and resources for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas across KIPP and other public schools and organizations.
  • About Our Values:
  • Excellent Results for Students: We value results over effort and know that our work is not finished until all students thrive.
  • We maintain high expectations for self, team, and students.
  • We drive outcomes by operating with agility, removing barriers, differentiating support, and prioritizing student-centered solutions-especially for those at the margins.
  • Collective Impact: We are one team.
  • We win together.
  • We build trust-based relationships and ensure inclusive decision-making by engaging those closest to the work.
  • We demonstrate an unwavering belief in students' potential and a commitment to addressing systemic inequities.
  • We approach challenges with resilience, a solutions-focused mindset, and adaptability.
  • We foster a psychologically safe environment centered on trust and accountability where feedback is encouraged.
  • About The Position
  • 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.
  • 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.

This listing is sourced directly from KIPP Colorado Public Schools's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.