Regional Program Manager, Primary Multilingual Programs

KIPP • Houston, TX

90d • $73,000 - $80,000

About The Position

As a Regional Program Manager, you’ll leverage experience with effective content-based language instruction, instructional coaching, and biliteracy pedagogy to drive academic outcomes for emergent bilingual students. You'll serve as a language acquisition expert, utilizing your understanding of bilingual and dual language education frameworks and evidence-based language strategies to drive academic achievement and language development across primary grade bands and content areas. With a focus on effectively implementing KIPP Texas's multilingual products and frameworks, such as Get Ready!, Summit K12, 7 Steps to a Language-Rich Interactive Classroom, and dual-language simultaneous biliteracy instruction, you’ll directly coach teachers, multilingual education specialists, and school leaders on effective strategies to support multilingual KIPPsters. Through strong coaching and ongoing progress monitoring, you’ll play a vital role in improving academic and linguistic outcomes across our campuses.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, relevant Master’s degree in Multilingual Education preferred.
• Minimum of 2 years experience as a successful assistant principal, school leader, or full-time sheltered instruction or bilingual instructional coach at a primary campus.
• Proven record of results driving emergent bilingual academic and linguistic growth.
• Deep knowledge of content-based language instruction (CBLI), dual-language and simultaneous biliteracy instruction and pedagogy.
• Exceptional ability to set clear metrics for success, monitor progress, and demonstrate persistence in overcoming obstacles to achieving short- and long-term goals.
• Excellent leadership and management skills required; the ability to impact, influence, motivate, educate, coach, and inspire both internal and external audiences.
• Exceptional coaching skills that lead to improved instructional effectiveness.
• High self-awareness, humility, and integrity.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a deep desire and record of results to support schools with closing achievement gaps for all emergent bilingual learners.
• Understand the research and importance of comprehensible input strategies to engage all emergent bilingual learners.
• Hold high expectations for themselves as well as the leaders and teachers to remove barriers for multilingual learners from academic achievement.
• Use research and various levels of data analysis to focus on student outcomes and how they are achieved to support responsiveness to both strengths and areas of opportunities for emergent bilingual learners.
• Demonstrate expertise and understanding of multilingual frameworks, pedagogy, and instructional materials in an area of content expertise.
• Lead instructional improvement efforts on a portfolio of schools by planning and facilitating professional learning, modeling effective CBLI strategies, observing classroom instruction, and providing actionable feedback to classroom teachers, deans of multilingual education, and school leaders.
• Provide support to primary schools by partnering with the school-based leadership team, specifically by coaching deans of multilingual education.
• Conduct individualized coaching sessions with deans of multilingual education to observe ELDA instruction, provide feedback, and collaboratively develop actionable strategies for improving comprehensible and compelling input for newcomers.
• Facilitate professional learning communities that drive emergent bilingual achievement.
• Engage in continuous data analysis and action planning.
• Ensure that all state and federal guidelines are implemented across portfolio of schools.

Benefits

• The starting point for the salary range for this position is $73,000 - $80,000 commensurate upon experience and internal-equity.
• Competitive vacation and flexible paid time off (PTO) policies.
• Paid family leave.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with varying coverage for employees and their families, inclusive of virtual physician visits.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Participates in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS).
• 457 Roth retirement plan option with KIPP matching contribution up to $1,200 a year.
• 403b plans also supported.
• KIPP also offers the following employee-paid benefits: legal plans, LifeLock identity protection, life insurance and disability insurance.
• Flexible spending account or high-yield HSA.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees