Deputy Chief Schools Officer, Superintendent of Schools

About KIPP Texas Public Schools

KIPP Texas Public Schools is a free, public charter school network with more than 45 Pre‑K – 12 schools across Austin, Dallas‑Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. With over 30 years in Texas, we work together with our families and communities to prepare students for college, career, and beyond! Our schools provide a high‑quality, well‑rounded education built on academic success and personal growth, where all students learn and thrive in a productive, safe, and joyful way!

The Deputy Chief (DC) Schools Officer, Superintendent of Schools is charged with leading a cohort of schools to deliver KIPP Texas’ ambitious vision of becoming the highest performing, large school system in the state. Responsible for internalizing and translating statewide strategy into school‑level plans and initiatives, the DC Schools Officer acts as the primary catalyst for strategic implementation. They own the execution of statewide academic priorities to achieve breakthrough results, foster a joyful and rigorous culture, and guarantee that every school is a place where students can thrive and persist.

The DC Schools Officer, Superintendent of Schools leads and manages a high‑performing school management team focused on rapidly improving student outcomes and scaling a culture of excellence. They operate with a focus on organizational health, ensuring every school has the leadership, financial, and operational resources necessary to produce consistent, high‑quality results.

The role serves as a statewide system‑level leader accountable for portfolio‑wide school performance. This role directly coaches and develops senior school leaders, helps shape system‑wide instructional leadership strategy, and partners closely with the Chief Schools Officer to drive statewide results. The position is intentionally structured as part of the executive leadership bench, cultivating readiness for future executive leadership opportunities.

• Hold portfolio‑level accountability for academic outcomes across a statewide cohort of KIPP Texas schools.
• Interpret and execute KIPP Texas Public Schools’ statewide academic strategy for a portfolio of schools, translating priorities into clear expectations and non‑negotiables.
• Demonstrate strong expertise and a proven track record of excellent results as a leader within one or more horizontal educational communities (primary, middle, and/or high school).
• Ensure consistent, high‑quality implementation of instructional models, academic systems, and student culture practices aligned to state standards.
• Set and enforce execution expectations across the portfolio of assigned schools, addressing variability in implementation quality and student outcomes across regions.
• Manage change across KIPP Texas and invest internal and external key stakeholders in strategic evolutions, always ensuring that little KIPPsters and academic excellence are at the center of decision making.
• Partner with the Chief Schools Officer and school management leadership to ensure alignment to established multi‑year academic, operational, and financial aims.

• Ensure Little KIPPsters enroll, thrive, and persist in their assigned portfolio of schools across KIPP Texas.
• Serve as the portfolio’s instructional leadership expert, with deep knowledge in key horizontal focus areas such as early literacy, STAAR performance, AP courses, Texas state accountability measures, and the effective use of acceleration and intervention tools, among others.
• Lead academic health monitoring across the assigned cohort of schools using multiple data sources to assess instructional quality, student learning, and system effectiveness.
• Lead diagnostic reviews for schools not meeting academic benchmarks and to implement strategic academic interventions.
• Design and provide oversight improvement plans focused on improving teacher classroom effectiveness and student performance.
• Serve as the cohort‑level instructional leader, supporting and developing school leader managers and school leaders to implement high‑quality teacher development, including observing,…