Deputy Chief, Professional Learning

About KIPP Texas

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 57 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 just world.

Founded in Houston in 1994, and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism in our classrooms, in our offices, and in the communities we serve is unwavering. We are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join our Team and Family and champion equity, chase excellence, persist with purpose, bring joy, and help us rise together.

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 280 schools, nearly 15,000 educators, and 175,000 students and alumni.

About the Role

KIPP Texas is seeking a Deputy Chief of Professional Learning under the direction of the Chief Academic Officer (CAO). As a transformational leader at KIPP Texas, the Deputy Chief of Professional Learning will spearhead innovative strategies to empower educators and leaders, directly shaping student success and fostering a pipeline of exceptional talent to sustain our mission. The Deputy Chief of Professional Learning is responsible for creating and managing a comprehensive professional learning plan aligned with district goals, including curriculum development, instructional strategies, leadership development, assessment practices, and new technologies. 

As the Deputy Chief of Professional Learning, you will be accountable to the following organization-wide goals:  

• 100% of KTX School achieve an A or B rating - TBD
• 95% of K-2 students reading on grade level DIBELS
• KTX earn 90/60/30 on Reading STAAR
• KTX earn 90/60/30 on Math STAAR
• 60% of seniors graduate having scored a 3+ on at least a AP/IB exam
• 40% of 11th grade students score 21+ on the ACT
• 80% of student matriculate to a 4-year college
• 80% of Staff Retained 

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership and People Management

• Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing team responsible for the execution of all professional learning initiatives, fostering collaboration and accountability across regions.
• Design and promote a train-the-trainer model to build site leadership capacity for coaching and delivering impactful professional learning, including lesson internalization, practice clinics, and implementation support.

Teacher and Leader Professional Learning

• Develop and implement an innovative, comprehensive vision for professional learning as an integral part of the broader talent development cycle, ensuring alignment with KIPP Texas’s academic and cultural goals. 
• Create and facilitate professional learning plans aligned to the academic vision and strategy.
• Plan, execute, and evaluate a robust Summer Professional Learning Institute, ensuring alignment with academic goals and providing actionable follow-up coaching to support classroom implementation.
• Foster a culture of ongoing professional growth by providing opportunities for teachers to share best practices, lead peer-to-peer learning, and participate in collaborative inquiry.
• Establish frameworks for professional development that are directly tied to succession planning, instructional excellence, and leadership readiness across regional and school-based roles.

Regional Leadership Pipeline Management and Professional Learning

• Support a healthy regional leadership pipeline by developing school management systems level leaders.
• Create a vision and strategy for school leader manager, school leader and assistant principal professional learning aligned to the One KIPP Leader Competency Model and Rubric, Academic Strategy, and Student Culture Playbook.
• Create and facilitate professional learning for administrators that is aligned to the organization strategy and and long term academic and culture goals.
• Champion site and regional succession planning efforts, designing leadership pipelines that strengthen school, regional, and inter-regional capacity for sustainable talent development.
• Manage Principal-in-Residence (PIR) programming cultivating a strong internal school leadership pipeline. 
• Ensure support for PIR alumni success early in school leadership roles.
• Lead and develop assistant principal development programming across KIPP Texas to build a healthy pipeline of future principals-in-residence.

Implement and continue re-visioning teacher and leader evaluation programs

• Partner with the talent management team to operationalize redesigned teacher and leader evaluation programs.
• Plan, execute, and evaluate success of training around teacher and leader evaluation programs.
• Oversee the integration of teacher and leader evaluations with overall talent strategies, including the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA), to ensure alignment with programmatic and organizational goals.

Professional Learning Logistics, Planning and Communication

• Lead a team that coordinates logistics for all professional learning sessions across KIPP Texas.
• Manage communications pertaining to professional learning across all levels of the organization.
• Project plan all professional learning sessions, including summer of learning, with representation from all KIPP Texas divisions.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of professional development programs.

Performs any other duties as assigned. Responsibilities and tasks outlined in this document are not exhaustive and may change as determined by the needs of the network.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree in Education, Educational Leadership, Human Resources, or Talent Management strongly preferred.
• 5-7 years of progressive systems-level leadership experience, including working with multiple departments. Preference for candidates with executive leadership experience at a large, dynamic, mission-driven organization.
• Minimum 3-5 years of successful teaching experience.
• Minimum three years of experience in a school leadership role; with proven success in academic achievement and student culture indicators (e.g. attendance, student retention, etc.). 

Skills

• Demonstrated experience in progressive, systems-level leadership, adept at navigating complex organizational structures to drive systemic change in professional learning.
• Proven ability to influence and unify cross-departmental teams, fostering collaboration to design and execute strategic professional learning initiatives.
• Thrives in ambiguous situations. Adapts quickly to bring clarity and alignment in fast-paced, changing, and uncertain environments.
• Proactively address challenges by facilitating solution-oriented conversations that align stakeholder needs with operational feasibility.
• Exceptional strategic thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to prioritize competing demands, align key stakeholders, and solve complex problems. 
• Skilled at identifying and acting to dismantle systems of oppression related to academics and culture for students and adults.
• Exceptional ability to translate deep knowledge of  instructional content, practices, and pedagogy into practice.
• Demonstrated expertise in adult learning theory, with a proven ability to design and facilitate impactful and differentiated professional learning and coaching frameworks that translate into effective practice and drive measurable outcomes for educators and leaders.

What We Bring to the Table

• The salary range for this position is $160,00-$180,000 and is commensurate upon experience and internal-equity.
• Competitive vacation and flexible paid time off (PTO) policies.
• Paid family leave.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with varying coverage for employees and their families, inclusive of virtual physician visits. High deductible health plan with HSA also offered.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Participates in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS).
• 457 Roth retirement plan option with KIPP matching contribution up to $1,200 a year. 403b plans also supported.
• KIPP also offers the following employee-paid benefits: legal plans, LifeLock identity protection, life insurance and disability insurance.
• Flexible spending account or high-yield HSA.

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 spent at a desk using a computer/laptop.
• Attending conferences or training sessions.

Work Environment

• Hybrid work - in regional SSP office/at schools a minimum of 4 days a week.
• Typical office environment with frequent interruptions.

Travel Requirements

• Ability to travel to various locations within Texas, travel time of approximately 40%- 50%.

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.