26-27 School Leader
2 days ago
Newark
Job DescriptionCompany Description About KIPP New Jersey KIPP New Jersey is part of the nationally recognized “Knowledge Is Power Program” network of free, open-enrollment, college-preparatory public schools dedicated to preparing students for success in college and in life. In 2002, KIPP New Jersey first opened its doors in Newark’s South Ward as a single class of 80 fifth graders and has since grown to educate 7,035 students in grades K-12 across 15 schools in Newark, Camden, and Paterson. More than 90% of KIPP New Jersey students currently qualify for free or reduced meals. To learn more, visit . Job Description We anticipate beginning interviews in mid-to-late January 2026 and the full process concluding by March 2026, with July 2026 start dates. Applications received after January will be considered on a rolling, and as-needed basis. Here’s what you’ll be doing: Instructional Leadership • Drives and owns all instructional results for all students, • Strong content knowledge: knows essential content, rigor of standards, and highly effective teaching strategies well enough to establish and maintain a standard and coach it; can readily adapt to leverage resources across less-known or more nuanced subject areas, • Develops the capacity of leaders in driving results and developing teacher/leader capacity through observations, walkthroughs, real-time coaching, and data analysis through O3s focused on student data and coaching towards goals, weekly walkthroughs, and frequent observation of leader work, • Leads weekly conversations with the school leadership team focused on progress monitoring, student achievement data, and establishing strategies to meet school-wide goals; delegates system of instructional leadership expectations to the team, • Develops intervention systems that address gaps in sub-groups of students based on race, gender, SPED, or other identity markers., • Establishes a clear vision for excellent school culture and regularly articulates this vision to leaders, students, staff, and families, • Consistently reinforces high expectations for all students all the time, • Actively develops a school culture where students find joy in learning and where students are joyful and engaged, • Creates a culture in which teachers build strong and lasting relationships with students, especially the most challenging, • Develops, upholds, maintains, and course-corrects clearly articulated systems for how the school culture will function (e.g., behavior, recognition, consequences), • Establish a clear vision for excellent school culture and regularly articulate this vision to leaders, students, staff, and families, • Consistently reinforces high expectations for all staff all the time, • Actively develops a school culture where teachers find joy in teaching and student learning, • Engages families and community stakeholders proactively and productively as partners in school goals. Performs this through various opportunities for families to engage (e.g., virtual and in-person Town Hall events), • Actively seeks to recruit, cultivate, and retain high-quality candidates; prioritizes building a diverse staff and emphasizing staff that share similar backgrounds as our students, • Identifies top-performing teachers and leaders at regular points throughout the school year and works strategically to retain them, • Provides input to strengthen regional support, seeks to cultivate a partnership rather than an “us-them” relationship, and proactively works to ensure a true feeling of team and family throughout the organization. Specifically:, • Collaborates with Achievement Directors and other Teaching & Learning TEAMmates to monitor achievement data and inform the instructional leadership development of Assistant Principals, • Prepare for and participate in regional selection, progress monitoring calls, and professional development, • Collaborates in a forthright manner with the Talent team to make sure hiring needs of their campus and other campuses are met, • Ensures that all school functions (ops, electives, instruction, leadership, etc.) have systems to coordinate and communicate with one another, • Attends ~monthly school leader PD to hone content and instructional expertiseQualifications Bachelor’s Degree • Demonstrated student achievement results from teachers and leaders that you’ve managed and coached, • Demonstrated success in developing leadership capacity in others, • Demonstrated resilience and focus on student outcomes, • Ability to set direction across an entire school and motivate others to action, • Adept at data analysis; ability to extract meaningful insights across school-wide data using pertinent software applications., • Expertise in what the school-wide academic standards and state assessments require of students’ knowledge and skills to demonstrate mastery; able to translate student mastery requirements into instructional plans and strategies, • Deep understanding of appropriate application and differentiation of high-leverage instructional strategies (e.g. make kids sweat, pacing, stretch it, etc.) based on comprehension of child development and pedagogy, • Command of instructional design and the benefits and tradeoffs of school design decisions in driving student achievement, • Preparing and maintaining accurate records., • Operating standard office equipment., • Operating classroom technology equipment (ie. smartboards, projectors, Chromebooks, computers). The usual and customary methods of performing the job’s functions require the following physical demands: • Prolonged periods of working at the computer and sitting at a desk. Additional Information KIPP Team & Family offers a market-competitive starting salary range at $120,000 for a Principal in Residence, and $128,000-$143,000 for a School Leader and may increase based on experience. Salary ranges at KIPP are set based upon the role level and function, using benchmarks in the education and non-profit sectors, and allow for growth within the role. Individual compensation within this range will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to: relevant professional experience and qualifications; education, skills and training, and market conditions. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a generous benefits package including, but not limited to, the following: • Robust benefits that include medical, dental, and vision, • Optional participation in the KIPP NJ 403b retirement plan, including matching contributions, • A school-issued laptop, • Transportation benefits for TEAMmates commuting into Newark from the New York City area, • Generous Time-Off including 3.5-4 school vacation weeks (depending on the year), allocated sick and personal days, and an extended summer break, • Up to 12 weeks 100% parental leave for primary caregivers, • Employer paid life insurance #LI-NJ