Manager, Aspiring Teachers Program

Company Description

KIPP
KIPP Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free public schools educating 120,000 students in grades Prek-12 across 21 states and Washington, DC. While each of our schools is as unique as the community to which it belongs, we are united around a shared promise: Together, A Future Without Limits. You can learn more at www.kipp.org.

KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools
KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools  is part of the KIPP national network. 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. 

In the 2025-26 school year, the KIPP Jacksonville region will be comprised of four schools educating more than 3,000 students, kindergarten through twelfth grade in the North and West sides of Jacksonville, Florida.

• KIPP Impact Academy: Kindergarten - 8th grade 

• KIPP VOICE Academy: Kindergarten - 8th grade 

• KIPP Bessie Coleman Academy: Kindergarten - 8th grade 

• KIPP Bold City High School: 9th - 12th grade

For the current school year, teachers at KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools work the following hours Monday through Friday and may have occasional meetings or special school events outside of these hours. Hours for teachers and students may vary slightly by school.

• K-8 Staff: 7:30am - 4:30pm K-8 Students: 8:00am - 3:30pm, Wednesday K-8 dismissal is at 1:30pm 

• High School Staff: 6:45am - 3:45pm, High School Students: 7:15am - 2:30pm, Wednesday High School dismissal is at 12:30pm. 

Every Wednesday is a student early release day, which allows teachers to participate in weekly professional development and content team meetings. *This doesn’t include Wellness Wednesdays when all staff leave at student dismissal. 

To support these schools, we will employ more than 300 full-time staff members. We seek educators and colleagues that represent our core values of high expectations, growth mindset, commitment to team, trust, joy, and sustainability. To learn more about what it is like to work and teach at KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools, please visit www.kippjax.org/teach where you can also view all of our job postings.

Job Description

KIPP Jacksonville seeks a Manager of the Aspiring Teachers Program. These managers provide focused development, support, and structure specifically around creating a positive classroom culture to individuals launching a career in urban public education. Our Aspiring Teachers Program is ideal for recent graduates or people with experience in an educational setting who just haven’t yet obtained teacher certification. There will be two Managers of the Aspiring Teachers Program (MATP) who will each manage a caseload of aspiring teachers across schools and serve as their coach.

Coaching includes observing, providing regular feedback based on an established framework, meeting with Sr. Guest Educators one one-on-one, designing and leading professional development tracks for the Aspiring Teachers cohort, and working closely with key stakeholders to ensure Sr. Guest Educators are meeting the requirements of the program. The bulk of coaching and support from an MATP is focused on a positive classroom environment and the structures, mindsets, and tools needed for a joyful, engaged classroom culture to be realized. While the MATP is not expected to be an expert on all contents and grade levels, the MATP should know best practices for instruction and support other professional areas such as lesson internalization and professionalism.

In addition to supporting new teachers in the classroom, Managers of the Aspiring Teachers Program are responsible for supporting the larger talent team with the recruitment and selection of Sr. Guest Educators for the program. This would include attending recruitment events, some levels of external outreach, and supporting the selection process. MATPS sometimes sit in on interviews and help support schools with placement recommendations.

Their goals center on Sr. Guest Educator retention and matriculation into the Lead Teacher role while also supporting the talent team's larger outreach and recruitment goals. 

The ideal candidate for this position will have a deep passion for a quality education for all children, excellent relationship-building and communication skills, and have the ability to support new teachers.

The MATP is a full-time position on the shared services team which oversees four schools currently and is actively planning for growth in future school years. As a member of the shared services team, this individual would be responsible for doing whatever it takes to ensure that students develop the knowledge, skills, and character strengths they need to succeed throughout their education and in the competitive world beyond.

This position is year-round and performs duties as assigned by their manager.  This position reports directly to the Sr. Director of Leadership Development. Typical hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. but vary for this role based on the season. Some travel to community events during/after normal business hours would be required.

SPECIFIC DUTIES
Teacher Coaching & Support

• Advise, support, celebrate, mentor, and manage a group of Aspiring Teachers to improve classroom environment and teaching practice through:

  • Weekly classroom observation and feedback/coaching

  • Evaluating lesson plans to reflect best practices (internalize content)

  • Promoting continuous, high-quality assessment as a means for evaluating student achievement

  • Leading staff members to set and achieve audacious individual, classroom, and grade-level goals

  • Quarterly evaluations

• Facilitating a culture of constant learning and collaboration with Sr. Guest Educators and school teams

• Create and execute high-quality professional development sessions for the cohort

• Based on region-wide academic goals, culture priorities, and individual development goals, lead staff members to achieve high performance through goal setting and evaluation, as well as, coaching and feedback

• Orient new staff members to the teaching environment at KIPP Jacksonville, especially as it relates to the area of student personnel policy and procedures, general school practices and routines, and KIPP Jacksonville’s vision, values, beliefs and non-negotiables.

Impact & Influence

• Regularly communicate with school-based leadership teams to ensure alignment and support of Sr. Guest Educators is consistent across schools

• Collaborate with school team and/or shared service team to ensure alignment between professional development sessions and school/regional priorities around classroom culture

• Set up systems to codify and maintain for effective progress monitoring of performance across the talent team, academic team, and school team(s)

• Collaborate with school leaders on progression, promotion readiness, improvement plans, teacher placement, etc. 

• Give feedback to school leadership teams AND Sr. Guest Educators when conditions or norms need to be reset

• Perform other duties as may be assigned by manager

Recruitment & Selection

• Attend external career and/or education fairs to represent the organization and recruit new teachers to be part of the Aspiring Teachers Program

• Conduct some cultivation work to encourage new teachers to apply to the program, including but not limited to email outreach, messaging on job boards, and one-on-one phone calls. 

• Track any outreach that takes place in the application tracker system(s)

• Sit-in on interviews for Aspiring Teachers and collaborate with school leaders and the talent team around selection

COMPENSATION*

• The starting annual salary for this position is between 51K and 57K 

• Free individual level health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision

• Free individual short-term and long-term disability insurance 

• 403(b) retirement program with a company match

• To support professional practice and growth, all teachers and coaches receive individualized coaching and professional development

*please note these offerings are subject to change year-to-year.

Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS

• KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools believes that our staff will represent our core values—high expectations, a growth mindset, commitment to team, trust, joy, and sustainability. We search for established educators who embody them.

• Excellent professional development facilitator and planner

• Superior relationship building skills and interpersonal communication skills

• Bachelor’s Degree

• Four (4) years of teaching experience with a proven track record of high achievement for K-6 students in the classroom

• One (1) year in a level of teacher leadership, including but not limited to grade level chair, teacher coach, content area leader or chair, professional development facilitator, etc. 

HIGHLY PREFERRED

• Master’s Degree

• Five (5) years of teaching experience with a proven track record of high achievement for students in the classroom

• Demonstrated ability to coach classroom teachers specifically in classroom culture as a foundation to achieving high academic results

• A strong command of classroom management and culture with the ability to teach others classroom management skills

• Experience teaching in an urban, Title I public school or charter school setting

•  Experience with Florida’s standards either in their own classroom or with coaching other teachers

• Florida teaching certification

Additional Information

APPLY
Please complete an application and upload a resume via our job board. No applicants will be considered that submit resumes through other job postings.  Link here: https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/KIPP/jacksonville 

If you're a current KIPP Jax team member, you should:

1) Inform your current manager of your interest in the role and

2) Complete the online application

QUESTIONS

If you have questions about this position, please email Emma at [email protected]. Please understand that resumes and/or cover letters are not accepted via email and you will be redirected to apply via the website.

KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools is committed to a policy of equal treatment for all individuals applying for employment at our schools. KIPP Jacksonville Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, handicap, age, religion, sexual orientation or national or ethnic origin.