Director of Professional Learning
Director of Professional Learning
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Job Description
About the Opportunity
The Director of Professional Learning & Talent Programs will lead and champion the vision for excellence in professional learning through quality design and execution of the onboarding and professional learning for key roles in KIPP Texas at scale. The DPLTP will manage the recommended leader professional learning scope and sequence and collaborate with other departments on design and execution with yearlong cohesion to support and operationalize instructional coaching and competency development in our schoolbased teachers and leaders. The DPLTP will also lead the systematic process of identifying nurturing and advancing schoolbased leaders within an organization to fill current and future roles effectively. They will actively oversee the progress of individuals in the talent pipeline tracking their development providing support and resources as needed and ensuring that there is alignment between the organizations strategic goals and the skills and capabilities of individuals in the pipeline.
Key Duties
Professional Learning Vision & Implementation: Oversee the preparation execution and infield follow up of professional learning aligned to the KIPP Texas Academic Strategy setting vision for teacher Summer and inyear Professional Learning; coordinating multitiered professional learning for instructional leaders and teachers grounded in instruction pedagogy and content.
Professional Learning Design & Execute: Lead the design and facilitation of session content grounded in instruction pedagogy and content; coordinate with other functional teams on session design to ensure highquality content aligned to adult learning principles.
Coach & Develop Leaders Through Professional Learning: Observe and provide feedback for any and all enabling systems; coordinate targeted feedback for assistant principals alongside Directors of Instructional Excellence and Directors of Talent Development including coaching a small portfolio of assistant principals directly as it relates to instruction pedagogy and content coaching of teachers.
Monitor Outcomes: Set vision on and tracking success metrics to support with progress of PL session execution and mastery of content
Crossdepartmental partnerships: Manage key partnership relationships with internal partners in service of executing a clear comprehensive Cohesive Professional Learning strategy.
Team Management: As needed build a resultsdriven missionoriented team culture for any direct reports through establishing a clear vision for success; hire build develop and retain strong performers; demonstrate clear concise direction feedback and coaching; hold direct reports accountable for meeting targets and adjusting course as necessary in pursuit of goals.
Team Leader: serve as a key leader on the greater Professional Learning team; collaborate with team leaders to enhance statewide strategy and evolve in service of the pursuit of transforming student results and eventually serving 100000 KIPPsters in KIPP schools statewide.
Additional Responsibilities and Duties
Provide exemplary support to clients including SSP leaders school management teams and Assistant Principals/Principals in service of instruction pedagogy and content development on campuses.
Serves as an organizational leader on academic strategy providing insight and expertise to strategic planning as well as organizational valuesdriven initiatives and plans.
Operate with exemplary team spirit with eagerness to demonstrate flexibility and contribute to the overall needs of the team as they arise.
Qualifications :
Requirements
Bachelors degree required
2 years of teaching pk12 with a strong record of results 2 years designing and facilitating adult training 2 years in roles involving instructional coaching required
Demonstrated proficiency in leading through change executing on major initiatives and leading crossdepartmental work
Demonstrated excellence in designing professional learning
Demonstrated orientation to streamlining crossdepartmental needs in service of enduse experience
Demonstrated excellence in professional learning design and project management
Demonstrated achievement in partnership development including an ability to mobilize people and create champions to support an organizational mission
Evidence of developing and executing against a strategy with strong results
Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word Excel PowerPoint and Outlook)
Skills
Communication: Clear concise compelling communication.
Professionalism and trusting relationships: Operate with professional demeanor in even the most challenging situations. Work with teammates teachers leaders and regional stakeholders in a way that demonstrates confidence initiative and dedication to meeting commitments. Expresses professional presence with external stakeholders in a way that exemplifies KIPPs values in person verbally in writing on social media and at events.
Critical thinking problem solving and decision making: Ability to analyze data and make strategic design (professional learning and cohort programming) to help close gaps in data being presented (student achievement school culture etc).
Organizational ability and accuracy (strategic planning and prioritization): excellent attention to detail in written communication exemplary calendar management commitment to data fidelity and consistency in executing next steps.
Impact and influence: Ability to impact and influence stakeholders to action based on compelling recommendations based in data
Continuous learning: Investing in one self to continually learn and make impactful growth in focus areas.
Systems thinking and change management: Ability to develop problem statements analyze data and provide recommendations at a systems level that designs talent development systems to appropriate scale and helps stakeholders navigate through change and evolutions
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 is spent at a desk using a computer/laptop
Attending conferences or training sessions
Maintain emotional control under stress
Communicate effectively (verbal and written)
Work Environment:
In office or school site at least 3x per week
When in office; typical office environment with frequent interruptions
When on school site; lots of movement between classrooms offices and community spaces
Travel Requirements
Ability to travel to various locations travel time approximately 1520%.
Additional Information :
KIPP provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. As an equal opportunity employer we hire without consideration to race religion creed color national origin age gender sexual orientation marital status veteran status or disability.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
