Chief People Officer

Who you are

• A builder. You're energized by growth and comfortable with ambiguity. You've built systems that outlasted your time in a role, and you want to do it again at a large scale.
• A people leader. You've managed senior leaders and helped them get better. You make tough calls, have hard conversations with care, and hold a high bar.
• Obsessed with the frontline. You keep teachers, school leaders, and school staff, the people who serve our students every day, at the center of your thinking. You spend time in classrooms and schools, and you judge every policy, system, and process by whether it helps them better support our students or gets in their way.
• A systems thinker. You connect individual programs to organizational results. You see how a change to compensation affects retention, and how retention affects what students experience.
• Data-driven and practical. You use recruiting, retention, pay, and performance data to make decisions, and you're curious about how new tools, including AI, can help.
• A bridge builder. You earn trust with school leaders, executives, and the board. You can lead one unified team while respecting what's different in each city.
• Committed to equity. You center racial equity and cultural responsiveness in how you design programs and lead teams. You believe deeply in what our students can achieve.
• Rooted in our values. You see yourself in Kid Focus, Radical Love, Excellence, TEAM, and Fun. You can describe a time you made values real inside an organization, including a time it was hard. You take the work seriously, not yourself.
• Sound like you? We'd love to hear from you.
• 10+ years of progressive HR or talent leadership experience, including at least 5 years in a senior role overseeing multiple HR functions
• Working knowledge of employment law, HR compliance, and payroll across multiple states
• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to influence senior leaders and boards
• A bachelor's degree
• Willingness to travel regularly between Newark, Camden, Paterson, and South Florida
• Experience leading HR or talent across multiple sites or regions, ideally in an organization of 1,000+ employees
• Experience in K-12 education, charter schools, or another mission-driven, people-intensive sector
• New Jersey and Florida employment law experience
• An advanced degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, or a related field

What you bring

• Required
• 10+ years of progressive HR or talent leadership experience, including at least 5 years in a senior role overseeing multiple HR functions
• Working knowledge of employment law, HR compliance, and payroll across multiple states
• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to influence senior leaders and boards
• A bachelor's degree
• Willingness to travel regularly between Newark, Camden, Paterson, and South Florida
• Preferred
• Experience leading HR or talent across multiple sites or regions, ideally in an organization of 1,000+ employees
• Experience in K-12 education, charter schools, or another mission-driven, people-intensive sector
• New Jersey and Florida employment law experience
• An advanced degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, or a related field
• The salary range for this role is $250,000 - $290,000. Salary ranges at KTAF are set based upon the role level and function using benchmarks in the education and non-profit sector and allow for growth within the role. Individual compensation will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to: relevant professional experience and qualifications; education, skills, and training; and market conditions.
• In addition to a competitive salary, KTAF offers a generous benefits package including, but not limited to, the following:
• Robust benefits that include medical, dental, and vision
• KTAF 403b retirement plan, including matching contributions
• Generous Time-Off Policy
• Up to 12 weeks 100% parental leave for primary caregivers
• Employer-paid life insurance
• Extensive optional ancillary benefits including short-term and long-term disability and accident and hospital indemnity
• Our organization is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender, age, religion, national origin, citizen status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Our organization will make a reasonable accommodation to known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant or employee with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the organization. No questions on this application are asked for any unlawful purpose.
• How to apply
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Click the "I'm interest" button to submit your resume and screening questions for the role. You'll be given the opportunity to share a message with the hiring team, we strongly encourage you to use that space to tell us why this moment at KTAF is right for you, and which of our values resonates most with you and where you’ve lived it.
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• KIPP TEAM & Family Schools · Newark, Camden, Paterson, South Florida
• We serve more than 11,000 students today, and we plan to serve 15,000 by 2030. That growth depends on one thing: great people in front of our students and great leaders running our schools.
• Most Chief People Officer roles are about keeping a system running. This one is about building the talent engine for a network that's growing by nearly 40% in four years, across four cities and two states. If you've wanted to design the people strategy for a growing organization, rather than just maintain one, keep reading.

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