ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW:

By 2025, KIPP DC will build upon two decades of proven results to develop into a more impactful, innovative, and inclusive school system, that provides joyful, identity-affirming learning experiences so that all students and alumni achieve extraordinary outcomes. We are a network of eighteen schools educating nearly 7,000 students and employing 1,200 teachers, leaders, and staff members dedicated to our mission.

POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Compliance Manager will be primarily based at one of our KIPP DC campuses. This position will be responsible for maintaining documentation and managing matters related to compliance with a full spectrum of federal and state requirements at the campus and school level. This position will also assist in sustaining policies and systems that ensure KIPP DC’s overall compliance with regulations. This position will work closely with our school leaders and headquarters staff. The Compliance Manager is an exempt position and it will report to the Senior Director of Accountability.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implement, monitor, and document KIPP DC’s compliance at the school level around a full spectrum of federal and state requirements, including:

  • DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education and Public Charter School Board requirements, including audits, reviews, and annual reports

  • Student recruitment support including attending relevant student recruitment events (EdFest, local school fairs)

  • Student enrollment processes and documentation

  • Student residency requirements, documentation, and compliance, including working closely with families to ensure deadlines and document requirements are met.

  • Homeless youth population requirements, documentation, and compliance

  • English Language Learner (ELL) student requirements, documentation, and compliance

  • Student health records and vaccination requirements

  • Coordination and administration of high stakes testing (PARCC), including all project management responsibilities

  • Compliance requirements associated with Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) programs

• Serve as a full-time and engaged member of KIPP DC’s staff, including  assisting with student recruitment and enrichment activities, and working with other staff members to ensure fulfillment of KIPP DC’s mission.

• Bachelor’s Degree required

• At least one year related experience in school-based compliance monitoring strongly preferred

• Experience in database management strongly preferred

• Outstanding project management and organizational skills, and extraordinary attention to detail

• Self-starter with strong problem-solving and relationship management skills

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment under tight deadlines

• Excellent writing, communication and presentation skills

• Results-oriented team player who is dedicated to getting the job done

• Flexibility, with a strong work ethic and an entrepreneurial spirit to accommodate a high level of responsibility and multiple priorities

• Strong judgment and decision-making skills

• Passion for education reform and the belief that every child can succeed

• Unquestioned integrity and commitment to KIPP DC’s mission and to advancing its anti-racist ambition through their work with staff, students, alumni, and families

• Flexibility, tenacity, ability to produce high-quality work, resourcefulness, and willingness to work well with a team

• Mastery of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook

• Experience with PowerSchool is a plus

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

KIPP DC Public Schools does not discriminate against, or tolerate discrimination against, employees or applicants for employment on any legally-recognized basis or protected class including, but not limited to, actual or perceived race, color, national origin, immigration status (except as necessary to comply with federal, DC, state, or local law), religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity or expression), marital status (including domestic partnership status), genetic information, political affiliation, pregnancy, family responsibilities, personal appearance, veteran status, uniform service member status, status of being unemployed, status of victim a survivor of domestic violence, sexual offense or stalking, matriculation or any other protected class under federal, state, DC, or local law.

Click here or here to review KIPP DC’s non-discrimination policy and KIPP DC’s Title IX Coordinator’s contact information.

KIPP DC requires all staff to provide proof that they have had all doses of a primary COVID vaccine or obtain approval for exemption for medical or religious reasons before beginning employment. New hires who have not received all doses of a primary vaccine or who are waiting approval for exemption will not be able to begin employment. New hires who have not received all doses of a COVID vaccine or who are awaiting approval for exemption will not be able to begin employment.

All KIPP DC staff are strongly encouraged to stay up to date on their vaccinations. The CDC currently defines being up to date on the COVID vaccine as having had all doses of a primary vaccine and as having received a booster, if eligible.