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About the Role

The SVP, Growth is responsible for the success of initiatives impacting the entire KIPP network. This role defines the vision, goals, and strategy for KIPP’s growth function, overseeing criteria and readiness frameworks for growth, shaping the long-term portfolio plan, and ensuring network accountability for rigorous growth. Every new school, expansion, and scale decision must be evidence-based, student-outcome anchored, and designed for long-term sustainability. Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, this role partners with the Chief Schools Officer and CEO, setting growth function vision and strategy, and making network-level decisions on growth policy and priorities. The SVP is accountable for both defining the vision and ensuring its execution through their team, holding network-wide strategic accountability, partnering with Chief-level leaders on organization-wide decisions, and managing one Senior Director of Growth.

Responsibilities

Define and own KIPP’s enterprise-wide growth and scale strategy, including multi-year targets, portfolio priorities, and conditions for sustainable expansion.
Set the vision and standards for network growth, ensuring all scale decisions are evidence-based, equity-centered, and aligned with the One KIPP strategy.
Establish methodology and criteria for tagging regions as viability risks and oversee assessments for long-term sustainability and success.
Serve as the primary senior voice on growth to the Chief Schools Officer, Chief of Regional Impact, CEO, and Board, providing strategic counsel and driving alignment.
Shape and steward cross-functional planning across the Office of the Chief Schools Officer and Chief of Regional Impact, integrating growth considerations into planning cycles.
Lead the Foundation’s partnership with regions pursuing opportunistic growth, driving strategy, ensuring accountability, and facilitating thought partnership.
Establish and lead progress-monitoring systems for growth plans, exercising judgment for course correction and escalating risks.
Identify cross-regional growth patterns, scale effective practices, and address systemic gaps across the portfolio.
Serve as the senior escalation point for regions on growth-related matters.
Lead, develop, and manage the performance of the Senior Director of Growth.
Build a culture of accountability, learning, and continuous improvement.
Represent the Growth function in executive decision-making forums, cross-functional planning, and Board-level growth updates.

Requirements

12+ years of progressive experience in strategy, growth, and network development, or related enterprise leadership roles, ideally in K-12 education or a comparable mission-driven environment.
Proven track record of managing and developing people managers across nested teams of 4 or more direct reports with measurable impact.
Demonstrated ability to set vision, goals, and strategy for a function or multiple functions with executive-level autonomy, and translate that vision into accountable execution through a team.
Direct accountability for network-wide strategic priorities with demonstrated outcomes impacting all regions or the full network.
Proven track record of designing and maintaining readiness or assessment frameworks grounded in data, and translating inputs into clear recommendations that drive network-wide organizational accountability.
Strong analytical and strategic skills, including landscape analysis, financial modeling, and synthesizing complex information into crisp strategic narratives for executive and Board audiences.
Demonstrated executive presence and ability to make network-level decisions with autonomy while serving as a credible senior thought partner to C-suite leaders and regional boards.
Demonstrated record of partnering with regional or field-based leaders to translate national strategy into executable plans tailored to local context, while maintaining network-wide coherence.
Experience in K-12 education, charter school growth, or a comparable mission-driven environment strongly preferred.

Skills

Mission and Student Focus: Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPP’s mission and core values.
Self Management: Proven record of setting and achieving ambitious goals in complex environments; uses data for goal setting; effectively distributes work; fosters a culture of achievement.
Work Management: Sets clear vision aligned with organizational goals; prioritizes and delivers work products for sustainability and scalability; develops agile project plans for collaboration and resource sharing.
Process Management: Builds and aligns goals and project plans with organizational priorities; develops and codifies processes for coordination, efficiency, and efficacy; prioritizes processes for sustainability and scalability; ensures team finds efficiencies.
Data-Driven Actions and Decisions: Uses data to shape team decisions and learning agenda; generates, implements, and evaluates solutions with a focus on scalability and sustainability.
Communication and Change Management: Articulates case for change to multiple audiences; translates vision into actionable plans; champions networkwide change.
Collaboration: Identifies and leverages opportunities with internal and external stakeholders; leads successful collaboration across functions; possesses interpersonal, diplomatic, and relationship-building skills.
People Management & Development: Ensures strong professional development and coaching for teammates; proficient in succession and performance management; fosters a positive team culture with ownership and accountability.

Location

NYC
Chicago
Remote

Work Type

Full time
Exempt
Remote

Experience Level

12+ years of progressive experience
Managing and developing people managers

Salary/Compensations

$249,600 - $295,000

Benefits

25 holidays + 18 days flexible PTO (increases with tenure)
100% paid parental leave
100% medical/dental/vision premium coverage for employees and 75% for family
Wellness benefits (fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets, backup care, employee assistance program)
Finance Security benefits (401K with 4% match, legal plans, life/disability insurance, flexible spending accounts)

About the Company

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free public charter schools preparing students with the skills and confidence to create their future.
We are a network of 279 schools, nearly 16,500 educators, and nearly 210,000 students and alumni.
Our mission: Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose—college, career, and beyond—so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.
Our vision: Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.
The KIPP Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP public charter schools across the country, developing educators, providing resources, promoting innovation, and facilitating knowledge exchange.

Equal Opportunity

KIPP Foundation embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the students and communities with whom we work and the world that’s around them.
Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.