Director, Student Development
KIPP Foundation
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $124,800 - $150,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in high school and/or postsecondary education counseling, advising, student development, curriculum, or related fields.
- Experience designing or implementing student development, advising, or instructional programming at the school, district, or national level.
- Experience working with or supporting high school leaders and educators preferred.
- Experience with charter or charter-like schools, nonprofits, higher education, and/or serving first-generation students from historically underserved backgrounds.
- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills preferred
- Strong research skills preferred
Benefits
- 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 + family’s 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, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationcommunicationorganizational skillscultural responsivenessadaptabilitystrategic thinkingproblem-solvingcontinuous improvementprofessional development