Position Type:
Administration/Assistant Principal
Date Posted:
5/13/2024
Location:
Andover Central Middle School
Date Available:
08/01/2024
Closing Date:
05/19/2024
Purpose: Under direction, assist in the administration of a secondary school facility; plan, develop, organize, coordinate and supervise the student attendance, behavior management, counseling and guidance, site safety and security, and extracurricular activity programs; assist in the planning, development, and implementation of site, instructional, and operational goals and objectives, and in the evaluation of the effectiveness of educational programs and personnel performance; perform other related functions as directed.
Qualifications: Valid Kansas Administrative Licensure appropriate to specific level.
Supervisor: Building Principal
Date: January 1, 2021
Performance Responsibilities:
- Supervise the planning, organization, and conduct of a comprehensive student body activity/club program, including co-curricular activities, budget planning, fundraising, and expenditure control, scheduling of assemblies and field trips and programs, and student government functions and activities.
- Schedule and maintain contracts with photography services (picture days, graduation, dances, athletic and activity organizations), graduation supplies, class ring services, disc jockey services and facility rentals for school dances.
- Supervise organization sponsors in fundraising, and management of each organization’s activities funds.
- Foster good school-community relations by keeping the community aware of and responsive to the activity program.
- Review, evaluate, and enforce student attendance processes and procedures, and, as needed, recommend revisions to the process.
- Supervise the reporting, monitoring, and enforcement of attendance policies (building and state).
- Propose schedules of extracurricular activities during the school year and also supervises the scheduling of such activities during the advisory/seminar period.
- Maintain a master schedule of facility use for all school and community events, coordinates that use with the building calendar and community calendar, and enforces district facility use policy.
- Ensure that the student planner includes the customized calendar of school events.
- Monitor and address student discipline, safety and welfare issues by holding meetings with students, parents, investigating incidents, documenting findings, contacting proper authorities and conforming to legal requirements and regulations.
- Work with public safety and youth service agencies in resolving student management, attendance, and welfare problems.
- Assist in maintaining discipline throughout the student body, and deals with special cases as necessary.
- Review, and evaluate instructional and non-instructional personnel performance.
- Conduct informal observations of all faculty at all times during the year and school day.
- Assist in the planning, development, organization, coordination, and supervision of instructional programs and activities including those that occur in advisory/seminar.
- Advise, counsel and assist instructional, and support personnel in problem solving activities pertaining to student behavior management.
- Assist in the development of all building procedures and policies.
- Assist in working with department heads and faculty in compiling annual budget reports.
- Assist in the enforcement of national, regional, state, conference, district, and building policies.
- Supervise employees including assigning and directing work, interviewing and hiring, evaluating performance, disciplining, resolving problems.
- Attend instructional development meetings, conferences, and training.
- Attend, prepare for, and lead parent meetings and conferences to address student related issues.
- Attend, organize, and assist in directing various in-building committee meetings including department chair meetings, staff meetings, activities and coaches meetings, academic issue meetings, academic collaborative team meetings, etc.
- Attend and assist with administrative team meetings at building and district level.
- Serve with parent, faculty, and student groups as requested in advancing educational and related activities and objectives.
- Act as a motivational leader in the activity program and educational leadership role.
- Contract for customized student planner and ensures that deadlines for production and delivery are met.
- Assist in safety inspections and safety drill practice activities.
- Assist in implementation of the crisis plan if and when the unforeseen occurs.
- Assist in planning, and implementing supervision of buildings, activities, and students.
- Assist in the supervision of student activities and athletic activities before, during, after school and in evenings and on weekends.
- Assist in the daily supervision of the cafeteria before school and during the lunch period.
- Assist in supervision of custodians in the building to ensure continuous feedback on daily maintenance issues.
- Perform needs assessments and other research and development functions and activities—including the drug/alcohol/tobacco risk surveys, graduate follow up surveys, staff proficiency surveys, etc.
- Plan, schedule, and coordinate implementation of professional learning activities.
- Assist in development and implementation of professional growth activities and the means to document individual professional goals and growth.
- Work with district and building leadership to organize, design, implement and evaluate New Teacher Induction and Mentor programs that focus upon state standards for educators and teacher performance.
- Demonstrate effective human relations and communications skills.
- Comply with KSHSAA rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
- Other duties as assigned.
Physical Requirements/Environmental Conditions:
- Requires the ability to sit and/or stand for prolonged periods.
- Occasionally requires the ability to manually move, lift, carry, pull or push heavy objects or materials.
- Occasionally requires the ability to stoop, bend and/or reach.
- Must be able to work indoors and outdoors year-round.
- Must be able to work in noisy and crowded environments.
- Requires regular attendance and/or physical presence at the job.
FLSA Status: Exempt