management
Posted Jun 1Vice President People Operations
Remote
Responsibilities
- Set and drive the overall talent strategy and talent philosophy for the KIPP Foundation workforce, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, culture, and long-term goals.
- Ensure a coherent, integrated talent system across the Foundation, including recruitment, onboarding, HR operations, performance management, development, engagement, and offboarding.
- Oversee the design and effectiveness of the full talent lifecycle, ensuring systems and processes drive strong performance, development, and retention outcomes.
- Ensure effective HR operations and infrastructure, including recruitment, onboarding, Total Rewards, and compliance, in partnership with the Senior Director of People Operations.
- Use workforce, engagement, and performance data to monitor organizational health, identify risks, and drive continuous improvement across talent systems.
- Establish the vision, policies, and standards for employee relations, including performance management, conflict resolution, and policy compliance.
- Ensure consistent, fair, and compliant application of HR policies and practices across the organization.
- Advise senior leaders on complex employee relations matters and organizational risk, ensuring alignment with legal and organizational standards.
- Lead and develop the Talent function, setting the vision and strategic direction to ensure strong execution across both People Operations and Development & Growth.
- Oversee and coach Senior Directors, ensuring clear ownership, alignment, and accountability across:
- Drive alignment and integration across talent systems, ensuring a seamless and consistent employee experience across both sub teams.
- Foster a high-performing, outcomes-driven culture across the Talent team that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Build leadership capacity across the team by coaching senior leaders, strengthening decision-making, and ensuring clear expectations and performance standards.
- Ensure alignment between talent strategy, employee experience, and organizational culture, reinforcing a high bar for performance and development.
- Support the organization in building a strong, inclusive, and high-performing workforce, aligned to KIPPâs mission and values.
- Effectively prioritize and deliver work products that ensure sustainability and scalability of work.
Requirements
- Mission and Student Focus: Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPPâs mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold KIPPâs core values (Focus on Excellent Results, Collective Impact, and Courageous Action).
- Self-Management: Demonstrated record of setting and achieving ambitious goals for their departments in complex or ambiguous environment and effectively distributes and redistributes work among direct reports, teammates.
- experience in nonprofit or education contexts at progressive levels of responsibility with evidence of successful development and organizational outcomes
- Understanding of current education climate and corresponding response strategies for the communities we serve
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Experience
- 8+ years of senior HR and talent management leadership
Benefits
- KIPP Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all.â¯We are a network of 279 schools, nearly 16,500 educators, and nearly 210,000 students and alumni.
- Our vision : Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.
- The Vice President of People Operations, reporting to the Senior Vice President of People Operations, will play a critical leadership role in bringing this vision to life.
- Set the vision for performance management and development systems, including goal setting, feedback cycles, and evaluation processes, in partnership with the Senior Director of Development & Growth.
- Act as a visible culture leader and ambassador for KIPP, modeling organizational values and reinforcing a high bar for performance, equity, and impact across the Foundation.
- Work Management: Sets a clear vision that ensures alignment of the teams work to organizational goals.
- Strong background in leading with equity at the center, especially through organizational change and growth •
- KIPP Foundation offices are in NYC and Chicago. Compensation And Benefits
- In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required.
- Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, and relevant experience.
- The salary range for this position is $197,600-$236,500.
- 25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+).
- 100% paid parental leave
- 100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + familyâs 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 Finance Security
- benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
Additional details
- Our mission : Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they chooseâcollege, career, and beyondâso they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.
- The KIPP Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP public charter schools across the country.
- 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 solutionsâespecially for those at the margins.
- Collective Impact : We are one team. We win together.
- We embody a one-team mindset by working collaboratively across teams, aligning goals, and leveraging the strengths of all teammates.
- We build trust-based relationships and ensure inclusive decision-making by engaging those closest to the work.
- We provide clarity through simple, repeatable systems and goals that enable transformational outcomes.