Vice President People Operations

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. The organization values results, collective impact, and courageous action to create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students for college, career, and beyond.

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 across the Talent team.
• Build leadership capacity across the team by coaching senior leaders.
• Act as a visible culture leader and ambassador for KIPP, modeling organizational values.

Requirements

• 8+ years of senior HR and talent management leadership experience in nonprofit or education contexts.
• Understanding of current education climate and response strategies.
• Strong background in leading with equity, especially through organizational change and growth.
• Experience cultivating a work culture in a virtual environment that is value-driven, equitable, and inclusive.

Benefits

• 25 holidays plus 18 flexible PTO days, increasing with years of service.
• 100% paid parental leave.
• 100% coverage of medical/dental/vision plans for employee, 75% for family.
• Wellness benefits including fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets, backup care, and employee assistance.
• 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 possible.