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KIPP is hiring an Enrollment Manager for the KIPP Change Academy to lead student enrollment and recruitment efforts. This role involves managing student data systems, coordinating outreach activities, and collaborating with school and regional teams to meet enrollment targets and enhance school operations.

Highlights

Lead student recruitment and enrollment processes including managing applications and executing strategies.
Maintain accurate student data in systems such as Infinite Campus and SchoolMint, ensuring compliance and audit readiness.
Support attendance tracking and reporting, collaborating with teachers to maintain accuracy.
Build and maintain relationships with prospective families and community organizations through outreach and events.
Proficient in Microsoft Excel at an intermediate to advanced level.
Requires Associate's degree or equivalent experience, with data management and strong communication skills.
Familiarity with KIPP North Carolina’s mission, operational systems, and values is preferred.
Experience with outreach, canvassing, and communication within a team setting is beneficial.
Annual salary range $40,000 to $50,000 based on experience and education.
Full-time, 12-month position with professional development opportunities and comprehensive benefits, including healthcare and 403b retirement plan with employer match.

KIPP Change Academy Enrollment Manager Full Description

Company Description

Organizational Overview

Every School. Every Student. Every Day.

Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) North Carolina is a network of eight tuition-free, college-preparatory public charter schools serving approximately 3,000 students in grades K–12 across Durham, Halifax, Northampton, and Mecklenburg counties. At KIPP NC, we are committed to improving life outcomes for North Carolina’s children through the delivery of rigorous, research-based curricula—and by removing barriers along the paths our students choose to follow. We strive to ensure every child has the tools, guidance, and support they need to define and reach their own vision of success.

We believe every member of our Team and Family plays a vital role in this mission—especially those who ensure that families find and choose KIPP. As a Student Enrollment Manager, you are often the first connection a family has to our schools. Your work builds the foundation for student success by ensuring that more children across North Carolina have access to a high-quality, equitable education. From leading outreach efforts to building trusting relationships in the community, you’ll help families feel seen, supported, and confident that KIPP is the right choice for their child’s future.

At KIPP NC, we honor the unique gifts and contributions of our staff. We offer competitive compensation and benefits that reflect our deep appreciation for your work. We invest in your development, provide a collaborative and mission-driven environment, and ensure you feel the full strength of the KIPP Team and Family behind you.

Together with our students, families, and communities, we are creating a future without limits. Join us—and help more children find the path that leads them there.

Job Description

Position Summary

KIPP Change Academy seeks a detail-oriented, highly organized, and mission-driven individuals for the role of Enrollment Manager. The Enrollment Manager role offers an opportunity for individuals to develop professionally and help expand the school’s community.

You're a systems thinker and you like seeing processes built from the ground up. You enjoy working with data and have a strong knack for detail oriented organization and ability to create processes to manage large amounts of information. But in everything you do, you put relationships first. You love building lasting relationships with students, staff and families creating trust, respect, and accountability for the success of our students and our schools.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

What You'll Do

The Enrollment Manager is the student enrollment and recruitment expert at the school. As such, this person is responsible for maintaining impeccable student information data, assisting with seamless school operations, and supporting excellent teaching and learning by providing enrollment data to inform decisions. Specifically, the Enrollment Manager works closely with the regional Operations Teams, the School Operations Team, and School Admin Team to ensure the school’s day one enrollment targets are met and maintained.

Student Recruitment :

Work with School Leader, school operations team, and regional team to drive more applications
Execute student recruitment strategy
Call families that have applied and process their applications for enrollment
Create a database of prospective students
Benchmark goals and timelines within the strategic plan
Identify and visit preschools, elementary, middle schools, and other youth service organizations in the area
Speak to groups and individual students and family members to promote KIPP
Organize school visits and open houses for prospective families and students to help build their familiarity with the school
Contribute to the schools’ social media accounts for promotional content
Build and maintain positive relationships with prospective families throughout the entire recruitment process from the first interaction through the time they start school

Enrollment:

Supports with school lottery event and family communication
Manages the online enrollment procedures for families of admitted students
Ensure students are enrolled into Infinite Campus and other KIPP NC student systems
Maintain impeccable databases within Excel

Student Information & Data:

Maintain the accuracy of student data throughout the year by updating student information in Infinite Campus and Schoolmint
Participate in regional audits to ensure 100% accuracy of student data
Self-audit student data to ensure regional audits produce no findings
Support with student information-specific data requests relating to compliance and reporting requirements for KIPP North Carolina (internal stakeholders, grant reports, research requests, KIPP Foundation, etc.)

Attendance:

Ensures the accuracy of students’ daily attendance, as well as tardy, truancy, and early leave logs
Prepares monthly attendance reports, weekly attendance verifications, and supports daily attendance submissions
Trains and works with teachers to ensure attendance is completed timely and accurately each day
Supports the goal of achieving a high ADA by communicating expectations of attendance to families, managing letters and communication to repeat truancy offenders, and supporting on attendance related incentives
Work with the attendance team to support interventions as needed.

Student & Family Relations :

Welcomes and attends to prospective families
Upholds and maintains a positive, nurturing, achievement-oriented school culture
Works with the Office team to ensure a well-maintained, warm and welcoming main office
Directs phone calls and guests warmly and professionally
Assists with Coverages for operations team absences; assists with special projects, events and tasks as requested by Director of Operations.

Physical, Mental and Environmental Demands

Physical: Ability to navigate office and school campuses, and hold meetings in different spaces. Must be able to walk, sit, and stand for long periods of time and actively converse and participate with others.
Mental: Stress of deadlines and normal work standards, ability to analyze problems and generate alternatives, memorize and recall objects and people.
Environmental: Canvassing, tabling, and flyering in the field will require work outdoors, monitor environmental conditions, and take appropriate safety precautions for the pandemic environment. Occasional classroom/school environment and travel.

Qualifications

Required

Associate's degree or combination of experience and education
Intermediate to Advanced Microsoft Excel Skills
A high level of detail orientation and organizational skills
Data Management skills
Strong Time Management
Possess strong skills in building relationships
Knowledge of KIPP North Carolina mission, value, and systems
Outreach, canvassing, sales, and communication experience preferred
Experience working as part of a team in a professional setting
Excited to learn and grow
Results-oriented
Welcoming to all communities
Strong communication skills. Spoken and written language skills.
Experience with Infinite Campus and/or SchoolMint preferred

Additional Information

Hours are M, Th, & F 7:30am - 3:45, Tu & W 7:30 - 5pm
This is a 12 month role that works through the summer

KIPP Employee Mindsets

All Means All: At KIPP NC, we believe we serve the needs and do whatever it takes for every kid, no matter their needs, abilities, or levels.
See a Need, Fill A Need: We believe that if there's a need at a school, that to be a great team player, we fill that need. A teacher is absent? We cover their class during our prep. A student is crying in the hallway? We comfort them whether or not they're our student.
Openness to Feedback: We believe that the only way for us to improve as professionals is to be open to feedback and add new tools to our toolbox. We stay after to practice teacher moves, annotate lessons, submit our lessons for feedback, happily have admin in our classroom to observe, and never miss a one-on-one with our coach to discuss our practice and learn how we can grow.
Student Centered: At the end of the day, we always do what's best for kids.

Total Rewards - Compensation & Benefits

Salary is $40k - $50k annually based on educational attainment and years of relevant experience.

We currently offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package including:

Salaries paid semi-monthly throughout the year
Healthcare (medical, vision, and dental) at no cost to individuals and deep discounts for dependents - Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina
Enrollment in an optional 403b with employer match up to 6% of wages
On-going professional development opportunities
Generous time off:
Paid Time Off (5 days PTO & 6 days sick leave annually)
Paid Time off for all major national holidays (including Fall Break, Winter Break, and Spring Break)

KIPP North Carolina is also committed to building the pipeline of the state’s most talented and effective teachers and leaders through competitive compensation, integrated professional development led by coaches and mentors, and resources they need to succeed, all rooted in core values that articulate our collectively designed organizational beliefs:

https://kippnc.org/mission-core-values/

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