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 just 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.

You can see all our job opportunities at https://kipptexas.org/join-our-team/ .

Job Description

The Opportunity

The Contingent Staffing Program Manager is the "go-to" person for all contingent talent needs for specific region(s). S/he is responsible for ensuring that all Contingent Classroom Facilitator candidates at KIPP Texas have a positive experience throughout the hiring and onboarding process and that the KIPP Texas Contingent Staffing program is a pipeline for teacher or administrative full-time roles. S/he leads the recruiting, hiring, training, retention, and support of KIPP Texas' Contingent Classroom Facilitators to ensure all campuses have daily absences filled with a high-quality substitute. S/he trains Contingent Classroom Facilitators to prepare them for the classroom and then actively monitors and ensures high quality performance of substitutes during their assignments.

Key Responsibilities

The Contingent Staffing Program Manager will:

Manage the recruiting process for Contingent Classroom Facilitators

• Aggressively monitor applicant pools to ensure that there are enough strong candidates to fill vacancies and adjust actions accordingly
• Steward quality prospects forward in the KIPP screening process for the sub program Attend and host recruitment events
• Track high quality candidates. Increase regular touchpoints in order to strategically engage in prospect meetings for individuals who qualify for high needs roles
• Create meaningful partnerships with local organizations and schools that yield content-specific candidates
• Partner with the regional staffing team to identify trends and adjust approaches to recruitment
• Partner effectively with hiring managers and staffing partners to move subs into vacancies, filling at least 50% of mid-year vacancies with Contingent Classroom Facilitators
• Develop mechanisms to ensure hiring managers are able to hold final interviews with candidates within 2 weeks
• Train substitutes on basics of KIPP culture and systems and classroom management expectations

Manage Contingent Staffing Facilitators, including performance and service satisfaction

• Manage substitute teacher pool in the Frontline system, ensuring all substitutes are available to work for their assigned region(s)
• Fill 95% of substitute requests in the assigned region(s)
• Regularly track and monitor Contingent Classroom Facilitators and their performance by confirming principal and teacher expectations are being met
• Conduct progressive discipline with substitutes who are not meeting performance expectations
• Review and approve substitute teacher timesheets in a daily basis at the respective campuses where assignment was complete
• Collect feedback from principals, teachers, and admin assistants by visiting campus, observing Contingent Classroom Facilitators, and informally soliciting feedback as well as holding focus groups and sending surveys
• Problem solve where needed to resolve concerns from parents, students, staff or administration
• Monitor overall progress for the region and communicate updates to the Regional Staffing Team
• Train campus staff on how to use Frontline to request and assign substitutes and submit feedback on substitutes who fulfill assignments on campus

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree required
• Experience: At least 3 years of professional experience in staffing, project management, and/or education
• Located in Austin, Texas

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of hiring and strong candidacy best practices
• Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to adjust and adapt to a multitude of situations in the educational environment
• Strong critical thinking skills to effectively solve issues that arise

Competencies

• Unwavering commitment to KIPP Texas's mission, students, families, and community
• Strong record of helping students achieve academic success, primarily with students in educationally underserved communities
• Strong desire to teach an academically intense curriculum and commit to an extended school day, week, and year
• Desire to continuously learn and increase effectiveness as a teacher and professional; offer and receive constructive feedback
• Willingness to be flexible and to go above and beyond to meet the needs of KIPP Texas students

Additional Information

Compensation and Benefits:

In addition to a competitive salary scale, a part of KIPP Texas' competitive benefits options, KIPP offers all employees an $0 HMO plan for the employee only. In addition to our $0 plan, KIPP provides a $600 employer contribution towards a Health Savings Account and a variety of other supplemental benefits such as Dental, Vision, Short and Long-Term Disability, Pet Insurance, Life, etc.