Vice President People

Job Title: Vice President of People

About

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free public charter schools preparing students for college, career, and beyond. The KIPP Foundation supports this network by developing educators, providing resources, promoting innovation, and facilitating knowledge exchange. KIPP values excellent results for students, collective impact, and courageous action, emphasizing high expectations, collaboration, and a solutions-focused mindset.

Responsibilities

• Set and drive the overall talent strategy and talent philosophy for the KIPP Foundation workforce, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, culture, and long-term goals.
• Partner with the SVP of People Operations and executive leadership to align talent strategy with organizational design, workforce planning, and operational priorities.
• Ensure a coherent, integrated talent system across the Foundation, including recruitment, onboarding, HR operations, performance management, development, engagement, and offboarding.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to leadership on organizational effectiveness, talent health, and workforce strategy, using data and insights to inform decision-making.
• Oversee the design and effectiveness of the full talent lifecycle, ensuring systems and processes drive strong performance, development, and retention outcomes.
• Set the vision for performance management and development systems.
• Ensure effective HR operations and infrastructure, including recruitment, onboarding, Total Rewards, and compliance.
• Use workforce, engagement, and performance data to monitor organizational health, identify risks, and drive continuous improvement across talent systems.
• Establish the vision, policies, and standards for employee relations, including performance management, conflict resolution, and policy compliance.
• Ensure consistent, fair, and compliant application of HR policies and practices across the organization.
• Advise senior leaders on complex employee relations matters and organizational risk.
• Lead and develop the Talent function, setting the vision and strategic direction.
• Oversee and coach Senior Directors, ensuring clear ownership, alignment, and accountability across People Operations and Development & Growth.
• Set enterprise-level priorities and allocate resources to ensure the Talent function is focused on the highest-impact work.
• Drive alignment and integration across talent systems.
• Foster a high-performing, outcomes-driven culture across the Talent team.
• Build leadership capacity across the team by coaching senior leaders.
• Act as a visible culture leader and ambassador for KIPP.
• Partner with leadership to drive annual workforce planning, talent strategy, and culture priorities.
• Ensure alignment between talent strategy, employee experience, and organizational culture.
• Support the organization in building a strong, inclusive, and high-performing workforce.

Requirements

• 8+ years of senior HR and talent management leadership experience in nonprofit or education contexts.
• Understanding of the current education climate and corresponding response strategies.
• Strong background in leading with equity at the center.
• Experience cultivating a work culture in a virtual environment that is value-driven, equitable, and inclusive.
• Mission and Student Focus: Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPP's mission and values.
• Self-Management: Demonstrated record of setting and achieving ambitious goals.
• Work Management: Sets a clear vision that ensures alignment of the team's work to organizational goals.
• Data Driven Actions: Able to generate, implement, and evaluate solutions with a focus on scalability and sustainability.
• Problem Solving: Takes calculated risks to test and implements correct, scalable solutions.
• Change Management: Takes calculated risks to test and implements correct, scalable solutions.
• People Management and Development: Effectively ensures strong professional development and coaching for teammates.