Job Description
About The Position
The KIPP Foundation is seeking a Vice President (VP) of Transformation to play a pivotal role in driving the execution of the Foundation's 5-year strategy, transformation and operational priorities. The VP will provide strategic leadership and spearhead processes that foster innovation, operational excellence and sustainable practices. As a strategic thinker and results-oriented leader, the VP will excel in navigating complexity, embracing ambiguity, managing change and leading transformational initiatives with measurable impact across the organization. This role will oversee large-scale change efforts by both providing direct support and developing capabilities across KIPP Foundation teams (i.e. Finance, Schools, Talent, etc.) as the organization implements its ambitious five-year strategic plan. Reporting directly to the COO and leading a 2–3-person transformation team, the successful candidate will collaborate closely with the organization's senior leaders to promote organizational excellence and position the organization for long-term success.
Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership:
Develop and champion the organization's transformation roadmap that will lead to actualization of the organization's long-term strategic priorities. Ensure these priorities are translated into actionable, repeatable processes and plans that align with the organization's vision with clear performance indicators and measurable impact.
Develop and implement a strategic vision for the Transformation Team, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities.
Establish KPIs and performance metrics to measure the success and impact of transformation programs.
Serve as a trusted advisor to COO and senior leadership, providing insights and recommendations to guide decision-making while ensuring alignment across priorities and initiatives
Lead innovation and the adoption of industry best practices in transformation management and process excellence within the team.
Transformation and Operational Excellence:
Oversee project execution and governance, ensuring initiatives are high-quality, delivered on time and within scope.
Quickly understand the current state by rapidly unpacking challenges, learning the culture, and moving to action with speed and clarity
Support the COO by building rubrics and processes to greenlight implementation plans, allocating resources and enhancing quality and productivity
Champion change management best practices, mitigating resistance and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Execution and Collaboration:
Communicate program strategies, progress, and results to Senior Leaders and key stakeholders
Act as a liaison between senior leaders, KIPP Foundation leaders, regional leaders and transformation team to facilitate understanding and buy-in for transformation initiatives
Drive adoption of new tools, systems, and processes by integrating change management best practices into projects and operating procedures.
Stakeholder Management:
Build, develop, and manage a high-performing transformation team, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and growth.
Develop strong relationships with Foundation leaders and other stakeholders to achieve alignment, collaboration and capacity building
Partner with stakeholders to ensure seamless adoption of project deliverables while minimizing disruption.
Skills and Mindsets
Mission & Student Focus: 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)
Self-Awareness: Practices self-awareness at work, understanding that it is foundational to leading self, leading people, and leading results; uses reflection, self-understanding, and feedback to grow, and persist through challenges, and as a result, are cognizant of the impact of their behavior on others, and intentional about the decision to adjust or not adjust their behaviors. Displays an owner’s mindset by taking ownership of successes and failure.
Effective Work & Process Management: Sets a clear vision that ensures alignment of the team’s work to organizational goals. Effectively prioritizes and delivers on work products that ensure sustainability and scalability of work. Develops and implements agile project plans that ensure cross functional collaboration and resource sharing to ensure achieving organizational goals.
Achievement and Outcomes Orientation: Demonstrated record of setting and achieving ambitious goals for their departments in complex or ambiguous environment; delivers to a high bar of excellence; effectively distributes and redistributes work among direct reports, teammates, and teams to optimizes goal attainments.
Strategic Decision Making and Problem Solving: Effectively develops network-wide metrics across departments and monitors own and others effectiveness to drive improvements; defines the vision for how data is used across multiple teams and allocates resources to fulfill vision and holds team accountable for making timely, data-informed decisions and progress against them.
Change Management and Communications : Able to set a compelling organizational directive for change efforts, catalyzing teams to achieve change at scale. Effectively navigates internal and external political dynamics and stakeholders to drive change efforts at the systems level; Champions KF and network-wide change and recruits internal and external sponsors
Effective Teaming and Stakeholder Management: Identifies and leverages opportunities with both internal and external stakeholders to increase impact; leads successful collaboration across functions and evolves/adapts plans to get to 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.
People Management and Development: Effectively builds systems to enable learning and continuous improvement across functions; highly skilled at coaching and supporting mid- and high-level leaders; strategically designs and staff teams with the skill and capacity to sustainably drive multi-year plans and goals; ensures an inclusive productive team that supports teammate effectiveness, engagement, retention
Qualifications
Experience and Qualifications
Bachelor's degree is required, advanced degree preferred
12+ years of experience in program or project management
8+ Years of experience in a leadership role, directly or indirectly managing 2+ team members
Experience with learning and development, offering professional development, and/or adult coaching
Charter School Management or experience in a related field is a plus but not required.
Experience in large-scale change management, turnaround and restructurings, or related work
Strong strategic problem-solving, project and process supervision, and stakeholder management skills.
Excellent relationship building, communication and collaboration abilities.
Experience in program governance, KPI development, and performance tracking.
Proficient in Microsoft Office and Teams
Additional Information
Work Conditions
Travel requirements: 25%
Full-time position
Location
It is preferred, but not mandatory for this role to be based out of the NYC KIPP Foundation office. This role has the option of working from a remote office full-time.
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 $190,000 - $227,000. In addition, KIPP Foundation provides a variety of benefits to employees, including:
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 + family’s 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
KIPP Foundation embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the students and communities with whom we work and the world that around them. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.