KIPP SoCal Public Schools

Human Resources Business Partner

KIPP SoCal Public Schools • $76K — $110K *
Los Angeles, CA 90011Hybrid
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Reposted 2 days ago
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of HR or organizational development experience in a multi-site organization (500+ FTEs)
  • Thorough knowledge of employment and workers' compensation laws
  • Experience as an HR Partner in a fast-paced environment, particularly in K-12 education or a Charter Management Organization
  • Strong commitment to anti-racism standards and fostering a high-performance adult culture
  • Ability to travel frequently to schools, possessing a valid California Driver's License

Responsibilities

  • Identify and address performance gaps early by partnering with leaders on actionable support plans
  • Train leaders on the Just Culture Rubric to differentiate between behavior types in disciplinary contexts
  • Maintain an active presence in schools to monitor adult culture and address root-cause issues
  • Lead the process of designing and evaluating cultural interventions, utilizing data to drive systemic change
  • Manage employee relations incidents effectively, ensuring swift resolution
  • Guide leaders through transitions such as terminations, focusing on legal compliance and human-centered approaches
  • Translate data trends into actionable insights for school management

Benefits

  • 100% coverage of healthcare premium costs for employees, with 50% for dependents
  • Employer-paid life insurance
  • 401(k) plan with up to 6% matching contributions
  • Generous PTO including 22 holidays, sick leave, and vacation days
  • Access to voluntary benefits like pet insurance and supplemental life coverage
  • Flexible spending account and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Full Job Description
You Should Apply If:

You are a courageous advocate for excellence who believes that adult culture is the primary lever for student success. You thrive on the ground in schools, acting as a "strategic mirror" for leaders to help them see and close gaps in their accountability structures. You aren't looking to just "process" HR paperwork; you want to coach leaders through the discomfort of high-stakes performance conversations to ensure every student has a high-performing teacher.

The Mission:

The HR Partner serves as the critical strategic partner to school leaders, equipping them to build and sustain a high-performance accountability culture. By providing high-leverage coaching, data-driven insights, and expert guidance on adult behavior, the HRP ensures that leaders have the tools and the courage to manage performance effectively. The HRP succeeds when excellence is the organizational standard and mediocrity is proactively addressed with clarity and integrity.

*This role requires frequent prescence inside our schools in East LA, South LA, and Southeast LA, meeting attendance at our KIPP SoCal office in Downtown LA, and, occasionally, opportunities to work remotely in Southern California.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Performance Coaching & Culture (60%)
  • Courageous Accountability: Identify performance gaps in your portfolio early; partner with leaders to implement documented, high-quality support plans that reach a definitive resolution swiftly.
  • Just Culture Implementation: Train and coach leaders to use the Just Culture Rubric to distinguish between human error, at-risk behavior, and reckless behavior in disciplinary actions.
  • On-the-Ground Diagnostic & Thought Partnership: Maintain a consistent presence in schools to proactively monitor adult culture. Partner with school leaders to move beyond treating symptoms by identifying root-cause issues and serving as a consultant to reveal gaps in accountability.
  • Intervention Design & Evaluation: Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of cultural interventions, from designing high-impact strategies to evaluating their efficacy. Use ER metrics and qualitative data to build compelling cases for systemic change, ensuring that interventions result in a measurable decrease in repeat incidents and a sustained high-performance environment.


Employee Relations & Risk Management (25%)
  • High-Efficacy ER: Manage complex investigations and employee relations incidents with rigor and speed, aiming for closure within 5-10 school days.
  • Talent Risk Mitigation: Guide leaders through difficult transitions (terminations, exits) ensuring the process is legally sound, human-centered, and culturally reinforcing.


Operational Excellence & Innovation (15%)
  • Data-Informed Advocacy: Translate retention trends and survey data into actionable "leadership moves" for school management.
  • AI Integration: Ethically leverage AI as a strategic "co-pilot" to accelerate workflows and drive innovation within the Talent & Equity team.
  • Compliance & Safety: Oversee Workers' Compensation administration, OSHA reporting, and reasonable accommodation requests with meticulous attention to detail.


The Qualifications & Competencies

Role-Specific Skills
  • Coaching & Influence: Ability to move leaders from defensiveness to action and coach them through the discomfort of high-stakes conversations.
  • Systems Thinking and Data Analysis: Ability to identify patterns in adult behavior and school-site systems that undermine accountability.
  • Organizational Diagnostics: Expertise in using retention and ER data to build cases for cultural shifts.


Standard Qualifications
  • 5-7 years of relevant HR or Organizational Development experience.
  • Thorough knowledge of all federal, state and local employment and workers' compensation laws
  • Demonstrated track record as an HR Partner in a fast-paced multi-site organization (500+ FTEs); experience within a Charter Management Organization (CMO) or the K-12 education sector is strongly preferred.
  • Deep commitment to upholding KIPP SoCal's anti-racism standards and promoting a high performance adult culture.
  • Ability to travel frequently to KIPP SoCal schools.
  • Valid California Driver's License.


Compensation & Benefits

  • KIPP SoCal Public Schools offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience in a similar position. The salary range for this position is $76,472 to $110,885. New hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint of $93,679 depending on qualifications, internal equity, and the budget allocated for this role.
  • 100% of healthcare premium costs covered by employer, dependents added at 50% of the cost
  • Employer-paid KIPP SoCal life insurance
  • 401(k) plan with up to 6% match by KIPP SoCal
  • Voluntary Benefits (Pet Insurance, Supplemental Life, Accident, Short Term Disability, etc.)
  • Generous paid time off program includes 22 holidays, sick leave, and vacation
  • Other great benefits (Flexible spending account, EAP, etc.)


About KIPP SoCal Public Schools

The Knowledge is Power Program, commonly known as KIPP, is a network of free open-enrollment college-preparatory schools in low income communities throughout the United States. KIPP is America's largest network of charter schools. The head offices are in San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, and Washington, D.C. KIPP was founded in 1994 by Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, two Teach For America corps members, influenced by Harriett Ball. KIPP was one of the charter school organizations to help produce the Relay Graduate School of Education for teacher training. KIPP began in 1994 after co-founders Dave Levin and Mike Feinberg completed their two-year commitment to Teach For America. A year later, they launched a program for fifth graders in a public school in inner-city Houston, Texas. Feinberg developed KIPP Academy Houston into a charter school, while Levin went on to establish KIPP Academy New York in the South Bronx. In February 2018, Feinberg was removed from his position at KIPP due to sexual misconduct allegations involving a KIPP middle school student in the late 1990s and two KIPP employees in the early 2000s. Feinberg denied the accusation by the middle school student, and reached a financial settlement with one of the two KIPP employees.
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