Chief of Regional Impact

The KIPP Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP public charter schools across the country, seeks an inaugural Chief of Regional Impact (CRI). The CRI is a new and critical role that sits at the heart of how KIPP delivers excellence for students across every region, every day. This is a rare opportunity to shape the trajectory of an entire network of schools by ensuring the leaders closest to students and communities are operating at the highest level.

At its core, the KIPP Foundation helps develop outstanding educators to lead KIPP schools, provides resources for excellent teaching and learning, promotes innovation, and facilitates the exchange of ideas across KIPP and other public schools and organizations. The Foundation supports a network of 279 schools, nearly 16,500 educators, and nearly 210,000 students and alumni across the United States.

The first-ever Chief of Regional Impact reports to the Chief Schools Officer and is responsible for three mission-critical functions: (1) managing Regional Superintendents, who lead coordinated teams that deliver educational services to KIPP regions; (2) partnering with Regional Superintendents to support and hold regional Executive Directors accountable for delivering best-in-class academic and postsecondary outcomes; and (3) overseeing the national ED pipeline program to ensure a ready bench of leaders are prepared to step into regional ED roles as openings arise. The CRI also supports a subset of regions with approved growth plans to add seats and open new schools, maintaining a dotted-line reporting relationship to the CEO on ED performance, accountability, and regional board effectiveness.

Day to day, the Chief of Regional Impact reports directly to the Chief Schools Officer to deeply understand and operationalize the vision of regional excellence across the network. This is a high-trust relationship—the CRI must take the CSO’s vision and translate it faithfully into systems, expectations, and leadership development without needing to be managed at every step.

Simultaneously, this is an outcomes-accountable leadership role. The CRI manages a team of four Regional Superintendents and drives results through them—setting a high bar; holding the line on performance; and ensuring systems, supports, and consequences are in place for every region. This person must be a clear thinker, a decisive operator, and a credible presence with senior internal and external stakeholders, including regional boards. The ideal candidate will bring a deep focus on mission and students, a high degree of self-awareness and self-management, the ability to effectively manage workflow to meet short- and long-term goals, proven management of teams and stakeholders, and a track record of strong communication and change management.

It is preferred—but not mandatory—that this leader be based out of a KIPP Foundation office in NYC or Chicago. This role has the option of working from a remote office full-time. The salary range for this position is $312,000 - $390,000.

The KIPP Foundation has retained Isaacson, Miller, a national executive search firm, to assist in this important recruitment. All inquiries, applications, and nominations should be directed to the search firm, as indicated at the end of this document.

Pamela Pezzoli is leading this search with Berkley Braden and Melissa Barravecchio.

The KIPP Foundation provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. As an equal opportunity employer, the KIPP Foundation hires without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or disability.