Director of Regional Operations

• Department:
  Regional Support and Leadership
• Compensation: USD 125,000 - USD 140,000 - yearly

About KIPP New Jersey

KIPP New Jersey is part of the nationally recognized “Knowledge Is Power Program” network of free, open-enrollment, college-preparatory public schools dedicated to preparing students for success in college and in life. In 2002, KIPP New Jersey first opened its doors in Newark’s South Ward as a single class of 80 fifth graders and has since grown to educate students in grades K-12 across 17 schools in Newark and Camden.

More than 90% of KIPP New Jersey students currently qualify for free or reduced meals.

The Director of Regional Operations leads and owns operational functions that directly impact schools in each region, including but not limited to, transportation, nutrition, technology, purchasing, budgeting and regional data. The DRO also leads special projects and initiatives that improve the region’s operations and create better delivery of services and create operational efficiencies across the region. These could include attendance or student persistence initiatives, or special projects such as tutoring or summer school programming.

The DRO also oversees and implements key enrollment processes and procedures for the region. The DRO supports the Managing Director of Operations in their work leading the region to achieve operational excellence in our schools.

The Director of Regional Operations (DRO) leads and manages operational areas as delegated by the MDO of the region which may include, but is not limited to transportation, purchasing, budgeting, nutrition, technology, regional data, and summer school. Manage all aspects of vendor relationships as necessary (e.g. food service, transportation, after school provider), including:

• Liaise between vendor and school-based ops teams and troubleshoot problem areas.
• Work with the compliance team to ensure vendors are procured according to state and local laws.
• Define standards for internal functions such as technology and nutrition
• Roll out region-wide policies and initiatives related to the operational areas that the DRO manages.

The DRO will support the MDO in running point for centralized support teams such as technology, facilities, data, compliance, finance/budget, HR Ops, purchasing, academic operations, and student recruitment. The MDO will manage some of these directly and will delegate to the DRO or DROs as necessary.

• Work with KTAF support teams to define regional and school based roles in service level agreements.
• Liaise between school-based ops teams and KTAF teams as necessary.
• Develop region-wide efficiencies to better support school operations leads in these areas.
• Facilitate communication and build structures to ensure both DSOs and department leads can do their best work.

The DRO supports the MDO in managing the local board, which may include:

• Schedule all local board and committee meetings.
• Work with a compliance team to ensure compliance with state and local laws; post meetings on website as necessary.
• Ensure quorum for board meetings.
• Lead efforts to prepare agenda items for board meetings and ensure presenters are assigned tasks and prepared to present; run board prep meetings.
• Assemble all board books and ensure resolutions are accurate and vetted by MDO and key KTAF stakeholders.
• Manage board meeting minutes and resolutions and file in google drive, in coordination with the compliance team.
• Manage all logistics for all board meetings.

The DRO leads enrollment systems and routines for the region:

• Managing all aspects of Power School including student transfers, withdrawals and pushing new students into Power School
• Managing HHIS SOM training and application process.
• Managing and ensuring fidelity of Final Site in collaboration with the SRE team
• Meet regularly and as needed with the SRE team and other regional DOE
• Leading the 8th to 9th transition project plan and driving towards regional metrics of success
• Identifying and implementing needed systems, data reports, etc to ensure the seamless and accurate implementation of student data systems
• Support the monitoring of student registration and…