KIPP Foundation

Account Manager

• The Director of College Partnerships will play a pivotal role in strengthening, expanding, and maximizing KIPP's national network of college partnerships to dramatically improve persistence and completion outcomes for KIPP students.
• Reporting to the Vice President of College Partnerships, the Director will serve as a regional expert who builds deep, strategic relationships with colleges and universities and aligns institutional commitments with KIPP's bold 2030 goals.
• The Director will lead the work to secure and deepen MOUs with institutions committed to strong access, affordability, persistence, and completion outcomes.
• This includes managing a portfolio of partner colleges, cultivating new partnership opportunities with top institutions nationwide, analyzing partner performance data, and collaborating closely with regions, high schools, and the KIPP Forward Counseling and Match team to ensure that partnerships are effectively leveraged to support students.
• This is a highly external-facing role requiring exceptional relationship management, negotiation ability, data fluency, and strategic execution.
• The Director will collaborate with KIPP Forward teams, regional counseling leaders, external partners, and senior institutional leaders to ensure that partnerships strengthen student access, success, and completion.

Director, College Partnerships – Multiple Positions

Director

• Implement and continuously improve the performance of College and Career Readiness and Access across a portfolio of high schools and regions.
• Lead integration of college and career planning, including college and career exposure, applications and personal statements, or various postsecondary pathways.
• Ensure high-quality delivery of college and career seminars, supporting school teams to meet student outcomes in Match, Counseling, and Enrollment.
• Coach and mentor Regional Directors and High School Directors to improve counseling practices, implementation of One KIPP Match Program Practices, and student outcomes.
• Provide targeted, data-informed feedback to schools and regions to support continuous improvement.
• Facilitate professional development for regional staff.
• Monitor regional data on enrollment, matriculation, and estimated college completion to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities.
• Drive improvements in senior outcomes, including best-fit college placement, Early Decision participation, and successful matriculation to postsecondary pathways.
• Develop, maintain, and disseminate regional-, high school-, student-, and family-facing tools, resources, and guidance for effective college and career preparation.
• Partner with K-8 and high school teams to align regional college and career strategies with the broader KIPP network.

Director, College Advancement – Multiple Positions

• Conduct research and synthesize best practices related to student development, purpose, identity, and college readiness.
• Design a senior-year 360° student development assessment to measure students’ knowledge, skills, and beliefs related to college success.
• Establish clear mastery benchmarks and assessment processes to evaluate student growth over time.
• Lead end-of-year analyses to assess student mastery and inform continuous improvement of programming and interventions.
• Design and pilot first-year junior interventions focused on strengthening student purpose through targeted development practices.
• Execute and refine junior-year interventions, incorporating data, feedback, and implementation learnings.
• Expand student development interventions across grade levels, including: Planning and implementing purpose-focused programming for seniors, sophomores, and freshmen.
• Ensure interventions are developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive, and aligned to postsecondary outcomes.
• Create approaches, resources, tools, and guidance to support high-quality implementation of student development practices in schools.
• Design and deliver content-based professional development for regional and school-based staff.
• Partner with instructional leaders to integrate student development strategies into existing structures (e.g., seminars, advising.).
• Partner closely with other KIPP national and regional teams to ensure alignment between student development programming and broader postsecondary success strategies.
• Use qualitative and quantitative data to provide targeted feedback to regions and schools to improve student outcomes.
• Design evaluation approaches to assess short- and long-term outcomes of student development programming.
• Monitor implementation fidelity and effectiveness across regions.

Director, Student Development

• The Director of College Partnerships will play a pivotal role in strengthening, expanding, and maximizing KIPP's national network of college partnerships to dramatically improve persistence and completion outcomes for KIPP students.
• Reporting to the Vice President of College Partnerships, the Director will serve as a regional expert who builds deep, strategic relationships with colleges and universities and aligns institutional commitments with KIPP's bold 2030 goals.
• The Director will lead the work to secure and deepen MOUs with institutions committed to strong access, affordability, persistence, and completion outcomes.
• This includes managing a portfolio of partner colleges, cultivating new partnership opportunities with top institutions nationwide, analyzing partner performance data, and collaborating closely with regions, high schools, and the KIPP Forward Counseling and Match team to ensure that partnerships are effectively leveraged to support students.
• This is a highly external-facing role requiring exceptional relationship management, negotiation ability, data fluency, and strategic execution.

Director, College Partnerships

• Act as a talent magnet, cultivating current and future Executive Director (ED) prospects: Strategically identify and cultivate a bench of the most talented and successful education leaders with track records of extraordinary results.
• Establish annual and long-term targets based on ED attrition data and collaboration with Regional Superintendents on talent landscape and needs to meet our goals of 85% retention of high performing EDs
• Collaborate with the Talent Team to identify a search firm partner for national searches
• Create and maintain ED identification and selection practices in partnership with Regional Superintendents and local Board Chairs: Partner with Regional Superintendents and the Talent Team to operationalize toolkits and resources for existing national expectations set by the CEO including decision rights and processes related to ED selection
• Partner with Regional Superintendents to ensure that 75% of candidates who complete the ED Residency are certified “ED Ready,” and 100% of ED ready candidates successfully matriculate into an Executive Director role within two years.
• Collaborate with Talent Team to define certification standards, performance metrics, and longitudinal tracking of ED Fellows and New ED participants.

Director, College Partnerships – Multiple Positions

Director, College Advancement – Multiple Positions

Director, Student Development

Director, College Partnerships

Vice President – KIPP Executive Director Accelerator