Vice President Transformation

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 Foundations 5year 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 resultsoriented 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 largescale 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 fiveyear strategic plan. Reporting directly to the COO and leading a 23person transformation team the successful candidate will collaborate closely with the organizations senior leaders to promote organizational excellence and position the organization for longterm success.

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership :

Develop and champion the organizations transformation roadmap that will lead to actualization of the organizations longterm strategic priorities. Ensure these priorities are translated into actionable repeatable processes and plans that align with the organizations vision with clear performance indicators and measurable impact.

Develop and implement astrategic visionfor the Transformation Team ensuring alignment with organizational priorities.

EstablishKPIs and performance metricsto measure the success and impact of transformation programs.

Serve as a trusted advisor to COO and senior leadership providing insights and recommendations to guide decisionmaking 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 highquality deliveredon 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

Championchange 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 betweensenior leaders KIPP Foundation leaders regional leaders and transformation teamto facilitate understanding and buyin 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 highperforming 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 KIPPs mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold KIPPs core values (Focus on Excellent Results Collective Impact and Courageous Action)

SelfAwareness : Practices selfawareness at work understanding that it is foundational to leading self leading people and leading results; uses reflection selfunderstanding 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 owners mindset by taking ownership of successes and failure.

Effective Work & Process Management : Sets a clear vision that ensures alignment of the teams 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 networkwide 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 datainformed 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 networkwide 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 highlevel leaders; strategically designs and staff teams with the skill and capacity to sustainably drive multiyear plans and goals; ensures an inclusive productive team that supports teammate effectiveness engagement retention

Qualifications :

Experience and Qualifications

Bachelors 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 largescale change management turnaround and restructurings or related work

Strongstrategic problemsolving 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%

Fulltime 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 fulltime.

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 $190000 $227000. 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 familys 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 employersponsored 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.

Remote Work : Employment Type :

Fulltime

Key Skills

Change Management,Financial Services,Growing Experience,Managed Care,Management Experience,Analysis Skills,Senior Leadership,Performance Management,Process Management,Leadership Experience,negotiation,Analytics

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Salary : $190,000 - $227,000