Vice President, Equity and Diversity

KIPP Foundation

Vice President of Equity and Diversity at KIPP Foundation ensuring equity in educational outcomes and collaborative strategy with regional leaders. Guiding efforts to address disparities and foster inclusion.

Posted 5/9/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $197,600 - $236,500 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set network-wide expectations and criteria for how disparities are identified, named, and addressed — establishing a clear, consistent standard that applies across all regions and all functional areas.
Embed equity into core planning cycles, progress monitoring processes, and action step routines — ensuring that disaggregation is not an add-on but a built-in feature of how the network monitors and responds to student outcomes.
Monitor network-wide trends and progress toward equity goals; identify patterns across regions and shape system-level responses, solutions, and learning opportunities.
Evaluate proposed practices for disparate impact before they scale; build the analytical infrastructure and feedback mechanisms that surface equity risks early and consistently.
Identify and scale effective practices across regions, ensuring that what works in one context becomes a learning opportunity for the full network.
Design and implement a methodology – in partnership with Regional Superintendents and Schools Team Leadership - to determine which regions require deeper, structured support based on the severity and persistence of disparities in anchor metrics.
Co-lead equity work in highest-need regions alongside Regional Superintendents and regional senior leadership — guiding strategy, supporting key decisions, and assessing progress with the urgency and rigor the situation demands.
Interrogate root causes and recommend a clear, measurable, timebound course of action where we see persistent discrepancies in our outcomes.
Work with Equity Leads to build ongoing regional capacity and ensure that equity work continues with depth and consistency between direct engagements.
Drive cross-functional coordination across Schools, Operations, Data, Talent, and other functions to ensure a coherent, unified approach to equity across the network — preventing equity from being siloed into a single team or lane.
Collaborate with senior leaders across divisions on strategic planning, executive-level discussions, and network-wide alignment work where equity is a central consideration.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of progressive experience in equity, diversity, inclusion, organizational development, or related systems-level leadership work, ideally in K-12 education or complex nonprofit environments.
Proven record of designing and implementing equity-centered systems at scale — policy frameworks, practice guidelines, and measurement approaches that drive organizational accountability.
Demonstrated ability to advise senior executives on sensitive, complex, and contested issues; strong judgment about when to push, when to partner, and when to hold the line.
Strong fluency with data disaggregation and equity measurement — able to define what success looks like and drive organizational accountability against it.
Deep expertise in racial equity, diversity, and inclusion across adult workforce and student-facing practices.
Strong track record of navigating cross-functional and cross-regional stakeholder environments in high-trust, high-stakes conditions.
Prior practitioner experience in K-12 is strongly preferred (e.g., teacher, school leader, or equivalent role with direct student/family-facing accountability)

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

equity-centered systems designdata disaggregationequity measurementpolicy frameworkspractice guidelinesorganizational accountabilityanalytical infrastructurefeedback mechanismsmethodology designstrategic planning

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationjudgmentadvisingcross-functional coordinationcommunicationproblem-solvingcapacity buildingstakeholder engagementdecision-making