Director of Academic Operations
Director of Academic Operations
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Job Description
POSITION OVERVIEW
KIPP Indy Public Schools seeks an experienced Director of Academic Operations (DAO) who will serve as a project manager coordinator and organizer for the Academics team. This role will be an essential support partner to the Head of Schools and the Academics Teams. They will partner closely with KIPP Indy school leaders instructional staff and external stakeholders. DAO will be a member of KIPP Indys regional team and will have the unique opportunity to ensure seamless proactive support and structures that will contribute to the overall impact of KIPP Indy.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Initiative Organization and Management
- Execute the implementation of Academic based strategic initiative priorities in pursuit of achieving organizational goals.
- Track and progress monitor against largescale Academic priorities and initiatives work closely with the Academics team leaders to gather relevant data and project manage accordingly.
- Perform research and develop activities to determine whether new initiatives are viable and worthy of prioritization for the Academics Team efforts.
- Maintain existing partnerships and lead the exploration of new vendors opportunities and program priorities including serving as a liaison with the Indianapolis Office of Education Innovation our authorizer as needed.
- Serve as the lead project manager and problem solver for academic program initiative efforts moving into launch and implementation.
- Design tools and systems for highlevel accountability tracking academic program requirements.
- Manage several high impacts academic strategic projects for the Academics team to be determined collaboratively with the Head of Schools; and
- Additional duties as assigned
Content Creation
- Create visually appealing content that successfully communicates compelling and meaningful messages.
- Uses data to create presentations onepagers online content and other media to support team recommendations
Project & Systems Management
- Determine the priority level of various projects to be completed and take initiative to create action plans and move forward
- Create longand shortterm plans including setting targets for milestones and adhering to deadlines
- Delegate tasks on the project to team members best positions to complete them.
- Make effective decisions when presented with multiple options for how to progress with the project
- Communicate with team members schoolbased staff or other KIPP Indy staff to keep the projects aligned with their goals and on deadline
- Adjust schedules and targets on projects as needed for the project change
- Create systems for tracking the teams long and shortterm plans including setting targets for milestones and adhering to deadlines
Relationship Management
- Cultivate and manage relationship with members of the regionwide leadership team and other critical stakeholders especially Head of Schools school leaders and members of the school leadership teams
- Meet and manage relationships with regional leaders and other critical stakeholders and synthesize their concerns challenges and ideas into easily understandable and actionable recommendations.
Special Projects
- Lead strategic initiatives and special projects as determined by the Head of Schools that are critical to KIPP Indys longterm success
Qualifications :
QUALIFICATIONS
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in education or related fields
- Deep belief in being part of and helping lead a multicultural antiracist organization
- Teamplayer capable of working both collaboratively and independently
- Highly organized resourceful and accountable with strong attention to follow through and detail
- Proactive and creative problemsolver; ability to identify analyze and recommend solutions
- Track record of exceptional results
Additional Information :
The salary for this position is $72000
Salary is commensurate with experience and includes a highly competitive benefits package. Opportunities for performancebased bonuses are also available.
KIPP Indy Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race color religion sex age national origin veteran status disability sexual orientation gender identity or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
