KIPP Chicago
School Operations Leader
🇺🇸 Chicago, IL
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Operations
🗓️ December 8th, 2025
K-8
Edtech.com's Summary
KIPP is hiring a School Operations Leader to oversee the efficient functioning of a K-8 school campus by managing enrollment, attendance, and day-to-day operations. The role involves designing and maintaining operational systems to support school leaders and teachers while ensuring compliance, financial oversight, and effective use of technology.
Highlights
- Manage student enrollment efforts including strategic planning, canvassing, waitlist management, and re-registration.
- Drive and maintain an average daily attendance rate of 96% through data tracking and incentive programs.
- Serve as a core member of the K-8 school leadership team and lead operational staff.
- Assist in creating discretionary budgets, managing purchasing, and monitoring school finances.
- Oversee facility maintenance and supervise custodians and engineers.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant health, safety, and education regulations.
- Manage technology resources including purchasing and maintenance of computing devices and software.
- Handle student information systems, progress reporting, and data coordination with support teams.
- Coordinate logistics for school events, parent meetings, and field lessons.
- Bachelor's degree required with 4+ years of work experience and 2+ years of management in educational or entrepreneurial settings; proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Drive essential.
School Operations Leader Full Description
Company Description
At KIPP Chicago, we are guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: Together with families and communities, we 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 just world. Our campuses are located in the Austin, Englewood, North Lawndale, and West Humboldt Park neighborhoods. KIPP Chicago also advises over 2000 KIPP alumni currently in high school or college through our KIPP Forward program. KIPP Chicago is the highest-performing network of schools in Chicago, as measured by our city’s school quality index. We attract, develop, and retain a diverse and talented staff of educators. Our students and families choose our schools because our teachers are exceptional educators who work together as a collective to ensure students achieve and thrive. For more data and information about our successes and vision for the future, visit www.kippchicago.org.
Job Description
The School Operations Leader (SOL) plays a vital role in ensuring the smooth, efficient, and mission-aligned functioning of our schools. The SOL’s primary responsibility is to successfully execute on our two top priorities: enrollment and attendance for a K-8 campus. They are charged with designing, implementing, and maintaining strong operational systems that free principals and teachers to focus on high-quality instruction and student learning, while fostering a supportive and well-organized school environment. The SOL is someone who values structure, embraces innovation, and seeks continuous improvement, consistently looking for ways to enhance effectiveness, streamline processes, and manage resources wisely. This individual will collaborate closely with school leadership, teachers, and the KIPP Chicago School Support Team to ensure seamless day-to-day operations. The School Operations Leader reports directly to the KIPP Chicago School Support Team. Regular and dependable on-site attendance is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of this role.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The responsibilities for the SOL include, but are not limited to:
- Student Enrollment: Manages the school’s annual effort to enroll new students – including strategic planning, canvassing (including nights and weekends), waitlist management, and registrations – and re-registers current students each spring/summer.
- Attendance: Manages the school’s effort to reach 96% average daily attendance for the year, which includes working with the school leadership and operations team to create a plan for daily attendance calls and data entry; analyzing data; and implementing incentives for students, families, and staff members for hitting daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly goals.
- Leadership: Is a critical member of the K-8 school leadership team, along with the principals and assistant principals, helping the school achieve ambitious academic outcomes. Manages and leads a team to successfully execute on KIPP Chicago’s top priorities. Hosts weekly alignment meetings between the K-8.
- Finance & Purchasing: Assists Directors of Operations, principals, and KIPP Chicago’s regional operations team in overseeing school finances: creating the discretionary budget, managing purchasing, monitoring spending, and ensuring adherence to the school’s fiscal procedures.
- Facilities: Oversees the school’s physical plant –both inside and out – ensuring it is in good repair and supervises engineers and custodians.
- Compliance: Ensures compliance with health and safety laws, teacher licensure and fingerprinting, city and state education mandates, and all federal and state workplace regulations for the K-8 campus.
- Technology: Oversees purchasing and maintenance of student and teacher computing devices and other hardware & software for the K-8 campus.
- Student Information and Reporting: Manages the student information system, generates progress reports & report cards, and coordinates with the KIPP Chicago School Support Team on data analysis and reporting.
- Logistics: Plans and coordinates logistics for parent meetings, special events, and field lessons for the K-8 campus.
- Human Resources: Coordinates with the KIPP Chicago School Support Team to ensure that school-based employees receive timely and accurate payroll and benefits.
Qualifications
The qualifications for a School Operations Leader are:
- Bachelor’s degree or better from an accredited university or college
- 4 or more years of work experience
- 2 or more years of management experience in a school or fast-paced entrepreneurial environment
- Strong project management skills
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities, and to prioritize tasks appropriately
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, who can work with internal and external stakeholders
- Evidence of strong interpersonal skills
- Evidence of personal initiative and follow-through
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Ability to work under pressure to hit deadlines
- High level of comfort with financial oversight and budgetary tracking
- Strong technology skills: proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) & Google Drive (Docs, Sheets, Slides), and able to quickly learn how to use new programs/systems
- Availability for occasional evening or weekend work
- Demonstrated passion for and commitment to the KIPP mission
- A cleared CPS Background Check before first day of employment
Additional Information
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
KIPP Chicago Schools offers a competitive compensation and benefits package:
- Salaries based experience related to role and responsibilities
- Competitive rates for medical insurance and short-term disability insurance. Dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, and long-term disability insurance are offered at no cost.
- Competitive retirement savings benefits
- For more detail about our Salaries and Benefits at KIPP Chicago, visit our website: https://kippchicago.org/join-our-team/
STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATION
KIPP Chicago Public Schools is committed to a policy of equal treatment for all individuals applying for employment. KIPP Chicago does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, national or ethnic background. All of your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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