Kipp Enc
Senior Manager, Video Production
Kipp Enc, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290
Department: KIPP Foundation (national roles)Company Description
About the OrganizationKIPP Public Schools
is a national network of tuition-free public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 278 schools, nearly 16,500 educators, and nearly 190,000 students and alumni.Our mission : Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose—college, career, and beyond—so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.Our vision : Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.The KIPP Foundation
is a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP schools across the country. The KIPP Foundation trains and develops outstanding educators to lead KIPP public schools; provides tools, resources and training for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas across KIPP and other public schools and organizations.About Our Values:Excellent Results for Students : We value results over effort and know that our work is not finished until all students thrive.Collective Impact : We are one team. We win together.Courageous Action : Our belief in what we can achieve is unwavering, fueling our optimism and commitment to overcome any challenge.Job Description
About The PositionAs the Senior Manager of Video Production, you will lead the development of high-quality video content that amplifies our mission and impact. This role is integral to shaping the way we communicate with diverse audiences, including students, educators, donors, and the public. You will oversee all stages of video production—from ideation and storyboarding to filming and post-production—ensuring each project aligns with organizational goals and brand standards. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners across the organization and also manage external vendors, videographers, and editors to produce compelling stories that inspire action. The ideal candidate is a visionary producer with a passion for education, a track record of delivering high-quality content on time and on budget, and an ability to thrive in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.Key Responsibilities and DutiesLead the production of national branded video content for use across all communication channels including social media videos and animations, email deployments, alumni and scholarship announcements, recruitment campaigns, etc.Act as an embedded documentarian to interview KIPP staff, students, families, community members, and alumni to identify, craft, and amplify stories about KIPP and issues relevant to KIPP.Manage workflow and stakeholder engagement for all national KIPP video projects.Maintain and enhance KIPP’s national video style guide.Work in partnership with the national marketing and communications team to align video content to the editorial calendar and support distribution planning to ensure those stories reach target audiences.Work in partnership with regional leads and external vendors to capture video content and support all onsite logistics of shoots as necessary.Amplify existing and train new video storytellers within the KIPP network and provide them with tools and resources to communicate their messages and amplify their voices, increasing the volume, diversity, and reach of shared stories network-wide year over year.Qualifications
Video Editing and Production Fluency : Ability to tell a compelling story, through video; Proficient in planning, shooting, editing, and post-production video work; Extraordinary interview skills with a unique ability to connect with the person sitting across from you.Trusting Relationships:
Possesses a high level of self-awareness and cultivates strong, collaborative relationships at all levels; excellent communication skills with an aptitude for translating complex information into a clear and persuasive narrative; convinces others by identifying benefits for all; strong customer-service orientation, with deep value placed on the end-user experience; cultural competence in how you tell stories and in collaborating with teammates across lines of difference.Organization, Planning, & Execution : Strong organizational and follow-through skills; excellent time-management, project management, and knowledge management skills; meticulous attention to detail with reliable and timely follow-up and follow-through skills. Excellent analytical thinker with the ability to interpret complex information.Continuous Learning & Critical Consciousness : Actively owns and learns from mistakes, actively seeks learning opportunities, leverages experts, internalizes learnings, and collaborates with teams to continually learn, grow and improve results; explores how identities impact their work, brings an assets-based lens, builds understanding of marginalization, dismantles white dominant culture, works towards racial justice and healing, and acts against oppressive systems.Mission & Student Focus : Passion for education equity and KIPP’s mission and values (Excellent Results for Students, Collective Impact, and Courageous Action).Achievement Orientation : Dedicated to meeting or exceeding goals; pursues goals with energy, drive, and need to finish. Delivers excellent work product, every time. Ensures clarity in goals and accountabilities while working with agility and creativity to drive toward deadlines and outcomes-focused metrics.Experience & QualificationsMinimum 6 years of experience, including experience as a lead on story creation and execution.A proven track record in effectively organizing others and yourself against immediate and long-term timelines.Fluency in Spanish (reading, writing, translating, editing, speaking) preferred but not required.Additional Information
Work ConditionsFull time, Exempt role.LocationIt is preferred, but not mandatory for this role to be based out of a KIPP Foundation office. This role also has the option of working from a remote office full-time. KIPP Foundation offices are in NYC and Chicago.Compensation and BenefitsIn compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, and relevant experience. The salary range for this position is $100,000 to $118,000. In addition, KIPP Foundation provides a variety of benefits to employees, including:26 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+).100% paid parental leave.100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans.Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program.Finance Security benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.KIPP Foundation embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the students and communities with whom we work and the world that around them. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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About the OrganizationKIPP Public Schools
is a national network of tuition-free public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 278 schools, nearly 16,500 educators, and nearly 190,000 students and alumni.Our mission : Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose—college, career, and beyond—so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.Our vision : Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.The KIPP Foundation
is a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP schools across the country. The KIPP Foundation trains and develops outstanding educators to lead KIPP public schools; provides tools, resources and training for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas across KIPP and other public schools and organizations.About Our Values:Excellent Results for Students : We value results over effort and know that our work is not finished until all students thrive.Collective Impact : We are one team. We win together.Courageous Action : Our belief in what we can achieve is unwavering, fueling our optimism and commitment to overcome any challenge.Job Description
About The PositionAs the Senior Manager of Video Production, you will lead the development of high-quality video content that amplifies our mission and impact. This role is integral to shaping the way we communicate with diverse audiences, including students, educators, donors, and the public. You will oversee all stages of video production—from ideation and storyboarding to filming and post-production—ensuring each project aligns with organizational goals and brand standards. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners across the organization and also manage external vendors, videographers, and editors to produce compelling stories that inspire action. The ideal candidate is a visionary producer with a passion for education, a track record of delivering high-quality content on time and on budget, and an ability to thrive in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.Key Responsibilities and DutiesLead the production of national branded video content for use across all communication channels including social media videos and animations, email deployments, alumni and scholarship announcements, recruitment campaigns, etc.Act as an embedded documentarian to interview KIPP staff, students, families, community members, and alumni to identify, craft, and amplify stories about KIPP and issues relevant to KIPP.Manage workflow and stakeholder engagement for all national KIPP video projects.Maintain and enhance KIPP’s national video style guide.Work in partnership with the national marketing and communications team to align video content to the editorial calendar and support distribution planning to ensure those stories reach target audiences.Work in partnership with regional leads and external vendors to capture video content and support all onsite logistics of shoots as necessary.Amplify existing and train new video storytellers within the KIPP network and provide them with tools and resources to communicate their messages and amplify their voices, increasing the volume, diversity, and reach of shared stories network-wide year over year.Qualifications
Video Editing and Production Fluency : Ability to tell a compelling story, through video; Proficient in planning, shooting, editing, and post-production video work; Extraordinary interview skills with a unique ability to connect with the person sitting across from you.Trusting Relationships:
Possesses a high level of self-awareness and cultivates strong, collaborative relationships at all levels; excellent communication skills with an aptitude for translating complex information into a clear and persuasive narrative; convinces others by identifying benefits for all; strong customer-service orientation, with deep value placed on the end-user experience; cultural competence in how you tell stories and in collaborating with teammates across lines of difference.Organization, Planning, & Execution : Strong organizational and follow-through skills; excellent time-management, project management, and knowledge management skills; meticulous attention to detail with reliable and timely follow-up and follow-through skills. Excellent analytical thinker with the ability to interpret complex information.Continuous Learning & Critical Consciousness : Actively owns and learns from mistakes, actively seeks learning opportunities, leverages experts, internalizes learnings, and collaborates with teams to continually learn, grow and improve results; explores how identities impact their work, brings an assets-based lens, builds understanding of marginalization, dismantles white dominant culture, works towards racial justice and healing, and acts against oppressive systems.Mission & Student Focus : Passion for education equity and KIPP’s mission and values (Excellent Results for Students, Collective Impact, and Courageous Action).Achievement Orientation : Dedicated to meeting or exceeding goals; pursues goals with energy, drive, and need to finish. Delivers excellent work product, every time. Ensures clarity in goals and accountabilities while working with agility and creativity to drive toward deadlines and outcomes-focused metrics.Experience & QualificationsMinimum 6 years of experience, including experience as a lead on story creation and execution.A proven track record in effectively organizing others and yourself against immediate and long-term timelines.Fluency in Spanish (reading, writing, translating, editing, speaking) preferred but not required.Additional Information
Work ConditionsFull time, Exempt role.LocationIt is preferred, but not mandatory for this role to be based out of a KIPP Foundation office. This role also has the option of working from a remote office full-time. KIPP Foundation offices are in NYC and Chicago.Compensation and BenefitsIn compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, and relevant experience. The salary range for this position is $100,000 to $118,000. In addition, KIPP Foundation provides a variety of benefits to employees, including:26 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+).100% paid parental leave.100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans.Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program.Finance Security benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.KIPP Foundation embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the students and communities with whom we work and the world that around them. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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