Senior Vice President, Growth

About the role

The SVP, Growth is a role with direct accountability for the success of work that impacts the entire KIPP network. This role sets the vision, goals, and strategy for KIPP’s growth function.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Growth Strategy & Vision
• Define and own KIPP’s enterprise-wide growth and scale strategy—including multi-year targets, portfolio priorities, and the conditions required for sustainable expansion.
• Set the vision and standards for how KIPP grows as a network, ensuring every scale decision is evidence-based, equity-centered, and aligned with the One KIPP strategy.
• Establish the methodology and criteria by which regions are tagged as viability risks and oversee an assessment of those regions to determine what’s required 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, synthesizing landscape intelligence, and driving organizational alignment around growth priorities.
• Shape and steward cross-functional planning across the Office of the Chief Schools Officer and Chief of Regional Impact, ensuring that growth considerations are integrated into organizational and financial planning cycles.
• Regional Growth Leadership & Accountability
• Lead the Foundation’s partnership with regions pursuing opportunistic growth—driving strategy, ensuring accountability, and working through peer leaders for thought partnership and analytical support to translate ambition into executable plans.
• Establish and lead the progress-monitoring systems that keep growth plans on track; exercise sound judgment about when course correction is needed and escalate risks to the Chief of Regional Impact and C-suite.
• Identify cross-regional growth patterns, scale effective practices across the portfolio, and address systemic gaps—ensuring that what works in one region becomes a learning opportunity for the full network.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for regions on growth-related matters, exercising judgment about when issues require the attention of the Chief of Regional Impact, Chief Schools Officer, or CEO.
• People Management & Development
• Lead, develop and manage the performance of the Senior Director of Growth to drive regional growth partnerships, readiness assessment, and landscape analysis.
• 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—serving as a credible, compelling senior presence.

Qualifications

• Skills and Mindsets
• Mission and Student Focus
• Self Management
• Work Management
• Data-Driven Actions and Decisions
• Communication and Change Management
• Collaboration
• People Management & Development
• Experience and Qualifications
• 12+ years of progressive experience in strategy, growth, 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 on their performance and the organizational outcomes they drive.
• Demonstrated ability to set vision, goals, and strategy for a function or multiple functions with executive-level autonomy, and to translate that vision into accountable execution through a team.
• Direct accountability for network-wide strategic priorities with demonstrated outcomes that impacted all regions or the full network.
• Demonstrated ability to design and maintain readiness or assessment frameworks grounded in data, and translate quantitative and qualitative inputs into clear recommendations that drive network-wide organizational accountability.
• Strong analytical and strategic skills, including landscape analysis, financial modeling, and the ability to synthesize 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.

Additional Information

• Work Conditions
• Travel requirements: High Travel: 21-30%
• Job Type: Full time, Exempt
• Location
• Preferred, but not mandatory for this role to be based out of a KIPP Foundation office. This role has the option of working from a remote office full-time. KIPP Foundation offices are in NYC and Chicago.
• Compensation and Benefits
• In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, and relevant experience. The salary range for this position is [$249,600 - $295,000].
• In addition, KIPP Foundation provides a variety of benefits to employees, including:
• 25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+).
• 100% paid parental leave.
• 100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans.
• Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursement.