KIPP Foundation
Senior Manager, K-12 Assessment
K-12
Edtech.com's Summary
KIPP is hiring a Senior Manager, K-12 Assessment to lead the implementation of KIPP's nationwide assessment strategy across multiple regions. The role involves managing assessment projects such as DIBELS 8, i-Ready, ACT/SAT, and state tests, ensuring timely and error-free delivery, providing professional development, and collaborating with internal teams and external vendors to improve assessment processes and outcomes.
Highlights
- Drive strategy and execution for assigned assessment areas including Literacy, Math, High School, and national/state tests.
- Manage assessment platforms like Renaissance (Illuminate) DnA, ensuring assessments are accurate, delivered on time, and compliant with state requirements.
- Create and deliver professional development and support documentation for school and regional staff on assessment administration and data use.
- Collaborate with Data & Analytics Team to develop data dashboards and ensure appropriate student rostering and vendor alignment.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with regional colleagues, balancing service and influence to overcome competing priorities.
- Lead vendor interactions to monitor assessment delivery and problem-solve network-wide challenges.
- Require deep knowledge of K-12 assessments and experience using data to inform instructional goals and monitor progress.
- Bachelor's degree and at least 4 years of experience in assessment coordination, administration, and training school professionals is required.
- Robust project management skills with ability to manage multiple initiatives and codify repeatable processes.
- Compensation range is $100,000 to $118,000 with benefits including paid parental leave, generous PTO, healthcare coverage, and 401K matching.
Senior Manager, K-12 Assessment Full Description
Company Description
About the Organization
KIPP Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free 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 279 schools, nearly 16,500 educators, and nearly 210,000 students and alumni.
Our 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 vision: Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.
The KIPP Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP public charter schools across the country. The KIPP Foundation helps to develop outstanding educators to lead KIPP schools; provides tools and resources for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas across KIPP and other public schools and organizations.
About Our Values:
Excellent Results for Students: We value results over effort and know that our work is not finished until all students thrive. We maintain high expectations for self, team, and students. We drive outcomes by operating with agility, removing barriers, differentiating support, and prioritizing student-centered solutions—especially for those at the margins.
Collective Impact: We are one team. We win together. We embody a one-team mindset by working collaboratively across teams, aligning goals, and leveraging the strengths of all teammates. We build trust-based relationships and ensure inclusive decision-making by engaging those closest to the work. We provide clarity through simple, repeatable systems and goals that enable transformational outcomes.
Courageous Action: Our belief in what we can achieve is unwavering, fueling our optimism and commitment to overcome any challenge. We demonstrate an unwavering belief in students' potential and a commitment to addressing systemic inequities. We approach challenges with resilience, a solutions-focused mindset, and adaptability. We foster a psychologically safe environment centered on trust and accountability where feedback is encouraged. We leverage data to reflect on progress, own setbacks, celebrate successes, and continuously improve to maximize impact.
Job Description
About The Position
The Senior Manager, K-12 Assessment will support the implementation of KIPP’s nationwide K-12 assessment strategy across our network of regions. The ideal candidate values the critical role assessments play in academically excellent schools and understands the impact assessments such as DIBELS 8, i-Ready, ACT/SAT, state tests, and curricular assessments have on the trajectory of students' lives. This person believes all students can engage in rigorous learning and achieve at high levels. This role will be tasked with the mission-critical work of ensuring we have consistent, aligned, and impactful implementation of summative and formative assessment implementation. The Senior Manager is part of a K-12 Assessment Team of four and will work in close collaboration with other members of the Schools Team as well as our Data & Technology Team. Each member of the team will be assigned a bucket of assessment work, which could include focusing on Literacy, Math, High School, State Tests, national assessments (DIBELS 8, i-Ready, ACT / SAT). The goals for members of the Assessment Team include error-free creation and on time delivery of curricular assessments in our shared platform, assessment participation rates of 90%+ or 95%+ (depending on the assessment type), and successful delivery of professional development.
Key responsibilities include:
Creation, ownership, and execution of strategy and project plan to drive student outcomes for assigned buckets of work (examples: state tests, DIBELS 8, i-Ready ACT / SAT, curricular assessments). Deep content expertise will be developed in assigned buckets of work, but the team will also be cross-trained to allow for shifts as needed. This includes:
- Thorough understanding of the assessments, any associated curriculum, and the associated assessment platform
- Ownership of the assessments in Renaissance (Illuminate) DnA, if applicable, which includes:
- Building / Updating / Duplicating error-free assessments annually
- Sharing assessments on-time with regions
- Fixing any errors / issues that are identified on assessments in a timely manner
- Collecting and tracking of administration dates to inform timelines
- Tracking assessment participation
- Tracking state requirements around curriculum, state tests, and graduation requirements
- Sharing relevant updates, materials, resources with KIPP Foundation colleagues
- Gathering feedback from KIPP Foundation and regional colleagues to improve materials, resources, and processes
Partnership with the relevant Teaching & Learning sub-teams to:
- Create / Revise protocols, schedules, and support documentation for the administration of assessments, data analysis, and planning responses to data
- Create and deliver professional development to KIPP Foundation and regional colleagues the assessments, associated platforms, and administration practices
- Build strong and trusting relationships with regional colleagues, balancing service and influence, especially when navigating competing priorities
- Identify student support needs and provide adequate guidance, support, and options for alternate assessment types
Partnership with the Data & Analytics Team to:
- Support the creation, revision, and implementation of common network data dashboards
- Ensure regions have students rostered in appropriate platforms
- Advocate with vendors to address common network roadblocks and ensure their products and support are aligned with our strategic vision
Attendance at Vendor Meetings
- Represent KIPP in recurring vendor check-ins to monitor assessment delivery, timelines, and issue resolution aligned to network needs
- Surface common regional challenges, coordinate follow-ups, and escalate risks or constraints as needed
Qualifications
Skills
- Mission and Student Focus: Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPP’s mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold KIPP’s Core Values (Focus on Excellent Results, Collective Impact, and Courageous Action)
- Assessment Expertise: Possesses a deep understanding of K-12 assessments. Has experience as an assessment coordinator and administrator, utilizing assessments as an instructional tool, and using assessment data to set goals and progress monitor.
- Self Management: Demonstrated record of co-creating ambitious goals with their managers – and driving toward desired outcomes; Effectively monitors progress toward goals for multiple workstreams; Leverages understanding of an organization’s operating model, structure, and core operational process to effectively drive work to achieve goals; effectively works through direct reports and peers to follow through on commitments, ensuring others do the same.
- Work Management: Effectively drives work they own through clear action planning. Manages time effectively around competing priorities. Skilled in creating and executing project plans through partnership with stakeholders and effective delegation to achieve intended results on time. Skilled in knowledge management.
- Process Management: Able to build and align goals and project plans with organization priorities; leverages relevant organizational processes and systems to execute work; can build and maintain knowledge management systems; effectively develops and codifies processes to ensure efficiency, alignment with organizational processes, and to improve work quality.
- Problem Solving: Generates solutions outside of their direct work and shrinks problems to solve independently. Shows initiative in generating and recommending ideas and solutions within their own workstreams. Anticipates risks and develops proactive solutions that support their team.
- Data-Driven Actions and Decisions: Effectively uses data to inform work streams; accurately synthesizes key findings from data analyses and can effectively communicate the data synthesis to inform actions, decisions, and solutions.
- Collaboration: Leads successful stakeholder management, accounting for varied perspectives when gathering feedback. Builds coalition by prioritizing end-user experiences. Builds trusting relationships and effective communications. Able to identify and remove barriers to working across teams.
Experience and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required
- A passion for assessment as a lever for rigorous high-quality rigorous instruction, equity, and access for all students
- Must have 4+ years of assessment coordination and administration experience with proven results.
- 3+ years of experience with facilitating and training school-based professionals at scale
- Robust project management experience; is adept at leading multiple complex initiatives simultaneously
- Experience codifying repeatable processes that improve efficiency and accuracy over time
- Experience with data analysis and using assessment data as a tool for instruction, goal setting, and progress monitoring;
- Familiarity with assessment platforms
- Record of results in collaborating across teams and with school leaders and senior leaders, including use of accountability structures
Additional Information
Work Conditions
- Travel requirements: up to 20% - Willingness to travel 0-4 days per month to work with a geographically distributed team and network of regions and schools
- Full-time, Exempt role
Location
It is preferred, but not mandatory for this role to be based out of a KIPP Foundation office.This role also has the option of working from a remote office full-time. KIPP Foundation offices are in NYC and Chicago.
Compensation and Benefits
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, and relevant experience. The salary range for this position is $100,000 - $118,000. In addition, KIPP Foundation provides a variety of benefits to employees, including:
- 25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+).
- 100% paid parental leave
- 100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans.
- Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program
- Finance Security benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
KIPP Foundation embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the students and communities with whom we work and the world that’s around them. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
Similar Jobs
Instructional Designer, Level II
Villanova University
🇺🇸 Villanova, PA
Instructional Technologist - Online Education
Bryant & Stratton College
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Orchard Park, NY
Senior Technical Curriculum Manager
Kode With Klossy
🇺🇸 Remote - US
Learning Experience Manager
Sikich
🇺🇸 Remote - US
Capacity Development Officer (Instructional Designer) (Contractual) - ICDIP
International Monetary Fund
🇺🇸 Washington, DC
