Vice President People

KIPP Foundation is a nonprofit organization supporting KIPP public charter schools across the country, focusing on developing outstanding educators, promoting innovation, and facilitating the exchange of insights and ideas.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $197,600–$236,500/yr

Responsibilities

• Set and drive the overall talent strategy and talent philosophy for the KIPP Foundation workforce, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, culture, and long-term goals.
• Partner with the SVP of People Operations and executive leadership to align talent strategy with organizational design, workforce planning, and operational priorities.
• Ensure a coherent, integrated talent system across the Foundation, including recruitment, onboarding, HR operations, performance management, development, engagement, and offboarding.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to leadership on organizational effectiveness, talent health, and workforce strategy, using data and insights to inform decision-making.
• Oversee the design and effectiveness of the full talent lifecycle, ensuring systems and processes drive strong performance, development, and retention outcomes.
• Set the vision for performance management and development systems, including goal setting, feedback cycles, and evaluation processes.
• Ensure effective HR operations and infrastructure, including recruitment, onboarding, Total Rewards, and compliance.
• Use workforce, engagement, and performance data to monitor organizational health, identify risks, and drive continuous improvement.
• Establish the vision, policies, and standards for employee relations, including performance management, conflict resolution, and policy compliance.
• Ensure consistent, fair, and compliant application of HR policies and practices.
• Advise senior leaders on complex employee relations matters and organizational risk.
• Lead and develop the Talent function, setting the vision and strategic direction to ensure strong execution across both People Operations and Development & Growth.
• Oversee and coach Senior Directors, ensuring clear ownership, alignment, and accountability.
• Set enterprise-level priorities and allocate resources to ensure the Talent function is focused on the highest-impact work.
• Drive alignment and integration across talent systems, ensuring a seamless and consistent employee experience.
• Foster a high-performing, outcomes-driven culture emphasizing accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Build leadership capacity across the team by coaching senior leaders, strengthening decision-making, and ensuring clear expectations and performance standards.
• Partner with leadership to drive annual workforce planning, talent strategy, and culture priorities.
• Ensure alignment between talent strategy, employee experience, and organizational culture.
• Support the organization in building a strong, inclusive, and high-performing workforce.

Requirements

• Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPP’s mission and core values.
• Proven ability to set and achieve ambitious goals in complex environments.
• Effective work management and prioritization skills.
• Ability to generate, implement, and evaluate scalable solutions.
• Experience in problem solving, change management, and addressing systemic issues.
• Strong people management and development skills, including coaching and performance management.
• 8+ years of senior HR and talent management leadership experience in nonprofit or education contexts.
• Understanding of current education climate and response strategies.
• Experience leading with equity during organizational change and growth.
• Experience cultivating an inclusive, value-driven work culture in a virtual environment.

Benefits

• 25 holidays plus 18 flexible PTO days, increasing with years of service.
• 100% paid parental leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans with full or partial coverage.
• Wellness benefits including fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets, backup care, and employee assistance programs.
• Retirement plan with 4% match, legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.

Additional Information

• Travel: Up to 10% (up to 20 days per year).
• Full-time, exempt role.
• Preferred but not mandatory to be based out of NYC or Chicago offices; remote work option available.