School Operations Manager

Position: School Operations Manager (26-27)
Company Description

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!

As one of the earliest charter networks in Texas-founded in Houston in 1994 and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018-we hire dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join a Team and Family with an unwavering commitment to creating classrooms, offices, and communities rooted in academic success and joy.

If you are passionate about joining a mission-driven community that wants every child to "run to school," the KIPP Texas Team and Family is for you! KIPP Public Schools is a national network of public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 278 schools with nearly 16,500 educators and 190,000 students and alumni.

Job Description

* Job Status:
Please note that this is a general posting for current and potential future opportunities. At this time, there may or may not be a vacancy. We are collecting applications on a rolling basis and encourage you to apply. Your application will be reviewed and considered for any opportunity that matches your skills and experience. Please be aware that you may not receive communication regarding next steps until an aligned opportunity becomes available.

We appreciate your interest in the role and KIPP Texas.
* JOB DESCRIPTION:

About The Role:

Every member of the Team & Family at KIPP Texas Public Schools plays a critical role in ensuring our students have the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose - college, career and beyond. Our educators are passionate advocates for their students and their families, working tirelessly to ensure that our students have access to opportunity. In our classrooms and across the KIPP family we embrace, honor and celebrate our differences across several characteristics that construct our unique identities in our little and big KIPPsters.

We are especially committed to attracting and developing individuals who share the life experiences of our students because we believe the best work we do is grounded in the realities and experiences of our families and KIPPsters.

The School Operations Team is focused on creating the conditions by which our schools can thrive by successfully driving attendance, enrollment, and school wide systems; leading safety and crisis management; and providing exemplary customer service for students, families and staff members.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

Manages the day-to-day school based operations policies and procedures.

● Implements daily school wide procedures such as arrival, lunch, and dismissal

● Oversees daily busing operations for their school by processing changes, addressing challenges, and

coordinating processes

● Coordinates with Child Nutrition day to day logistics of service such as meal card replacement and rosters

● Supports field lesson logistics by booking buses and ordering meals

● Schedules shared space

● Ensure that substitutes are booked and given attendance roster materials

Drives school based strategies to ensure kids are in seats every day and year over year

● Manages school event coordination and family engagement sessions

● Curates any school based social media communications and postings

● Provides tours for prospective families

● Serve as a key ambassador to the school's larger community. Effectively build relationships with family, staff, and community stakeholders with compassion, direct communication, and reliability

● Makes daily attendance calls based on guidance from Attendance and PEIMS Specialist

● Executes interventions to support chronically absent students in improving…