[2025 - 2026] KIPP Gaston Principal in Residence

Job Description

A Principal in Residence (PIR) is an Assistant Principal who aspires to be Principal preparing to lead a KIPP North Carolina school in two years. PIRs are committed to and actively contribute to the success of their placement school and KIPP North Carolina's ability to achieve 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Model and support implementation of the school’s vision and goals
• Supports development of School Leader’s school-wide vision and takes an active role in investing and mobilizing teachers to achieve the collective goals of the school; owns the implementation of select school priorities in support of the school-wide vision
• With guidance from the School Leader, leads the planning and goal setting for the grades/departments that he/she coaches and ensures alignment with school-wide goals
• Contributes to school-wide planning and prioritizes time to accomplish goals
• Effectively plan to meet goals through prioritization and excellent time management and coach others to do the same
• Develop teacher and emerging leaders with School Leader’s guidance
• Leads grade level/department level collaboration and learning
• Effectively manages and develops teachers of a wide range of skill and experience level by defining responsibilities, setting goals and providing ongoing high-impact feedback and support
• Supports the School Leader in developing emerging teacher leaders through goal-setting, coaching and providing feedback
• Model strong staff and student culture and manage school-wide behavioral systems
• Collaborate with School Leader to hire and retain diverse, highly-effective staff
• Build own and team’s content knowledge
• Engages in self-driven, ongoing learning regarding curriculum, pedagogy, coaching and school leadership
• Collaborate with content coaches to support teachers in instructing and assessing and connects teachers with relevant resources to improve their content knowledge and instruction
• Identifies gaps across grade level or department and develops and executes strategies to close gaps
• Develop and coach teachers
• Leads data-driven instruction by analyzing homeroom specific and grade/department level data and developing and executing plans to address gaps and by helping teachers do the same thing for their classes
• Provides high-quality instructional coaching by accurately diagnosing classroom instruction and providing frequent feedback for teachers across skill level; intensively coach new and struggling teachers with a range of coaching techniques
• Leads effective school-wide professional development
• Model personal leadership traits

Qualifications

• Possesses a deep commitment to improving the lives of kids from economically marginalized communities
• Demonstrated ability to drive academic results directly and through others
• Demonstrated leadership, management and coaching experience
• A combination of five years of teaching and school-level instructional experience (with a minimum of two years of school-level leadership experience in addition to the current school year)
• At least one year of experience as an Assistant Principal or equivalent role
• Experience teaching and/or coaching core subjects (Preferred)

Compensation

• Healthcare (medical, vision, and dental) at no cost to individuals and deep discounts for dependents
• Enrollment in a retirement program with employer match
• On-going professional development opportunities:
• Monthly Assistant Principal cohort meetings in-person and virtual
• Support from Relay Graduate School of Education
• Leadership coaches

Additional Information

• Hours are 7am - 5pm, Monday - Friday
• School Leaders are 12 month employees and work through the summer
• Must be able to stand 8+ hours per day
• Must be able to lift 50+ lbs
• Compensation
• PIRs are Assistant Principals in a 1 - 2 year Leadership Development Program, so they are paid on the KIPP NC Assistant Principal Compensation Scale.