KIPP Texas Public Schools
Regional Director of College Access and Curriculum
🇺🇸 Houston, TX
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Learning & Development
🗓️ July 14th, 2025
K-12
Edtech.com's Summary
KIPP is hiring a Regional Director of College Access and Curriculum. This role manages a portfolio of high schools, coaching Directors of College & Career Counselors and overseeing curriculum alignment, instructional coaching, and college access programs to increase four-year college enrollment and implement consistent curriculum execution.
Highlights
- Lead coaching and development of Directors of College and Career Counseling across multiple high schools.
- Manage curriculum taskforce, align statewide curriculum, and ensure fidelity in curriculum execution.
- Develop instructional strategies and monitor seminar instructors through regular observations and feedback.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders including KIPP Foundation, ACT, and SAT partners.
- Set and achieve specific college enrollment goals, aiming for 55% four-year college enrollment.
- Require bachelor's degree (master's preferred) and 2+ years managing teams toward college access outcomes.
- Preferred experience includes high school college access programming, data-driven decision making, and bilingual skills (English/Spanish).
- Travel to schools in the portfolio at least twice monthly.
- Compensation includes eligibility for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits.
- Opportunity to work within KIPP Texas Public Schools network focused on equity, academic excellence, and college readiness.
Regional Director of College Access and Curriculum Full Description
Company Description
KIPP Texas Public Schools is a network of 59 public charter, open-enrollment, pre-k-12 schools educating nearly 34,000 students across Austin, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Together with families and communities, our mission is to create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose —college, career, and beyond—so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more fair world.
Founded in Houston in 1994, and operating as KIPP Texas since 2018, our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism in our classrooms, in our offices, and in the communities we serve is unwavering. We are looking to hire a diverse team of dynamic, collaborative, and dedicated individuals with an unyielding belief that every child will succeed. Join our Team and Family and champion equity, chase excellence, persist with purpose, bring joy, and help us rise together.
KIPP Texas is part of the national KIPP network of 255 college-preparatory public charter schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Nationwide, KIPP students complete four-year college at a rate of 36 percent, comparable to the national average for all students and approximately three times higher than the average of students from low-income communities.
Job Description
The Regional Director of Curriculum and Instruction is responsible for executing the KIPP Texas Postsecondary Access vision with a team of school-based Directors of College & Career Counselors and Transition. This position will be responsible for the coaching, development, and access results for a portfolio of schools. Additionally, this role will support the statewide work of CKCS curriculum alignment and instructional coaching for all seminar teachers and advisors at different KIPP high schools in one or more KIPP Texas cities. The Regional Director of Curriculum and Instruction will be responsible for developing college access and transition teams, to increase overall college enrollment, specifically four year college enrollment while building relationships with key stakeholders including High School and regional Leaders, national organizations and college/universities, and community organizations that will lead to resources for students.
Duties and Essential Job Functions:
Programmatic Management
- Curriculum
- Supports and Manages Curriculum Taskforce and submits changes to Senior Director of C+P for approval.
- Shares, cascades, and ensures statewide school alignment with CKCS Pacing Calendar, Scope + Sequence, and Lesson Plans.
- Manages and progress monitors all curriculum execution, ensuring it is done with fidelity.
- Supports the creation of curriculum-based professional development.
- Works alongside SLMs and SLs to cascade curriculum materials, observation templates, and curriculum-specific goals.
- Instruction
- Creates a strategy around instructional development and focus to ensure KIPP Forward classrooms are taught with high level instruction, rigor, and strong systems and culture.
- Cascades, analyzes, and progress monitors observations and observation foci during each arc of the year.
- Collaborates with external and internal instructional stakeholders and partners including Winward Academy, Talent + Development, KIPP Foundation, SLMs, SLs, ACT + SAT.
- Supports Senior Director with all hiring of Instructors.
Personnel Management
- Manages portfolio of 4 HS Programs (To be determined based on Hiring)
- Coaching and development of Director of College and Career Counseling
- Supports progress monitoring and achievement of rigorous college access goals at each high school.
- Ensures monthly match meetings for each high school in their portfolio are attended and provides feedback to DCCCs.
Success for this role will be defined by: (goals should be closely aligned to the strategic priorities/duties above):
- Goal 1: 55% four-year college enrollment
- Milestone 1: 85% of the class with 24+ will have plans to matriculate to a 4-year college or university.
- Milestone 2: 65% of the class with 18-23 will have plans to matriculate to a 4-year college or university.
- Goal 2: 100% of schools are implementing the CKCS curriculum consistently and have completed all assessments with fidelity.
- Goal 3: 100% of seminar instructors at portfolio schools are observed and given feedback 2x per week
- Goal 4: 100% of high schools in RD’s portfolio are holding regular, monthly Match Meetings.
- Goal 5: 100% of high schools in RD’s portfolio consistently update the Matriculation Tracker, Overgrad, and any other requested data ahead of the weekly data entry deadline.
Qualifications
Preferred Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year institution required. Master’s degree preferred.
- 2+ years managing a team towards College Access outcomes
- Experience working with high school students and their families in the college counseling field, strongly preferred
- Experience in high school college access programming and systems
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Experience in leading high-performance and diverse teams
- Experience and knowledge of high school access programming and systems
- Resilience, strong work ethic and outcomes oriented—demonstrated ability to balance competing priorities under stress and follow through, despite sometimes tight or back to back deadlines
- Previous experience in using data to drive decision making strongly
- Comfort with working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Strong interpersonal skills; Ability to work with a wide-range of people including teachers, parents, students, alumni, corporate partners, vendors and admissions personnel
- Ability to project plan, organize, and prioritize, with a collaborative spirit
- Fast learner with the ability to inquire and be open to feedback
- Proven written and verbal communication skills
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred, but not required
Preferred Licensure/Certification/Specialized Training:
- Professional development course on college and career readiness and success, is essential
Physical Requirements:
- Remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods.
- Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a cell phone, copy machine and computer printer.
- Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another.
- Communicating with others to exchange information.
- Must be able to lift and carry or otherwise move up to 20 pounds occasionally.
Work Environment:
- Regional SSP Offices
- KIPP Texas High Schools
Travel Requirements:
- The Regional Director of Curriculum and Instruction will be required to travel to each of the schools under their portfolio at least 2 times per month.
Additional Information
Compensation and Benefits
As a full-time KIPP Texas employee you are eligible to participate in all KIPP Texas’ benefit plans. KIPP Texas offers a robust variety of benefits choices with competitive rates, including medical, dental, and vision options, life insurance, and disability plans.
KIPP provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or disability.
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