ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
Position Purpose
The assistant principal serves as a member of the school’s administrative team to develop and implement the total school program.
Reports to: School Principal
Supervises: As assigned by the Principal
Primary Job Responsibilities/Essential Functions:
- Assists to implement student orientation and registration activities.
- Assists in the development and establishing of the school’s goals and objectives and the planning of the schools instructional program.
- Provides direction to staff in implementing goals and objectives and interacts and meets with staff to assist in their development.
- Assists in the evaluation of the school program and of staff and assists to initiate needed improvements.
- Involves the staff in setting budget priorities.
- Acts to upgrade one's own professional knowledge and skills and to promote growth of all staff.
- Assists in the preparation and management of budgets and schedules and in the coordination and implementation of the co- curricular program.
- Assists to define and disseminate information about school discipline policy and procedures to parents, students, staff, and community.
- Communicates and carries out established policies, delegates and accepts responsibility for completion of tasks and communicates program goals, objectives, and policies to the community.
- Assists in supervising and maintaining auxiliary service and uses community resources to supplement the school program.
- Promotes and maintains open communications, positive student attitudes, respects dignity, worth of staff, students, and complies with established lines of authority.
- Assists in completion of records and reports and in the supervision and inventory of necessary supplies, textbooks, equipment, and materials.
Qualifications:
Education, Training & Experience
- Completion of an approved program in school administration at the Master’s level or above from an accredited college or university in School Administration.
- Three years of experience as a classroom teacher or any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
- Must possess a teaching license from the State of North Caroline.
- Must possess a valid North Carolina driver’s license.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.
- Ability to speak and signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving instructions, assignments, or directions to subordinates or assistants.
- Ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, charts, strategic plans, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, appraisals, charts, etc. using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control, and confidence.
- Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
- Ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in Standard English.
- Ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of algebra, descriptive statistics, statistical inference, and statistical theory.
- Ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape.
- Ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
- Ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
- Ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.
- Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
- Ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear.) Must be able to communicate via telephone.
- Must be physically able to operate a variety of equipment including computers, copiers, calculators, cell phones, etc.
- Must be able to operate a motor vehicle.
- Must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, and pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
DISCLAIMER: The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees.
Shift Type: Full-Time
Salary Range: Based on NCDPI scale for Assistant Principals
Salary Code: Per Year
Job Category: Administration
External Job Application: Licensed
Internal Job Application: Licensed
Location: Various