2026-2027 Secondary Assistant Principal IV - Operations

Job Summary

Position is responsible for assisting the school principal in the planning, organization, administration, and management of an assigned secondary school with an emphasis on leading the school’s operations. Position assists with supervising staff, creating a safe environment, and other duties associated with the successful operation of a secondary school.

Essential Duties

• Captures and administers the school's student discipline plan and ensures a safe and orderly environment.
• Aids the secondary school principal in ensuring that the school's policies and procedures related to student discipline referrals and discipline action plans meet state, federal, and division requirements.
• Aids the secondary school principal in supervising and evaluating staff assigned to the school.
• Performs classroom observations and conferences with teachers to improve the instructional program.
• Supervises and coordinates the preparation of student discipline review documents as required by School Board policy.
• Conferences with parents/guardians of students concerning discipline, attendance, and student behavior.
• Conferences with students referred for violations of the Rights and Responsibilities Handbook, administers disciplinary action as necessary, and notifies parents/guardians of action taken.
• Consults with student services personnel to find long-term solutions to inappropriate student behavior.
• Provides professional development for the instructional staff and other assigned personnel regarding school security, the Rights and Responsibilities Handbook, classroom management, effective discipline strategies, and conferencing techniques.
• Supervises the secondary assistant principals in the building.
• Aids the school principal in establishing and sustaining relationships with the business community and other youth-serving organizations to foster understanding and solicit support for students and their families.
• Maintains a smart, safe environment at the assigned school by monitoring halls, school grounds, and pupil movement.
• Attends and supervises after-school, evening, and weekend school-sponsored events and activities as assigned.
• Develops, articulates, and supports school safety initiatives to the faculty and school community.
• Models nondiscriminatory practices in all activities.
• Aids the secondary school principal with interviewing and recommending qualified candidates for vacancies within the assigned secondary school.
• Initiates and maintains effective liaisons with professional societies to keep abreast of developments and research in the profession.

Job Specifications

• Must possess a Master’s degree and be eligible for a Virginia Postgraduate Professional License in administration and supervision.
• Must possess at least three years of successful experience as a teacher with some experience at the secondary school level.
• Must possess a comprehensive knowledge of the current issues, principles, and practices in public secondary school education and the ability to apply them to the needs of a school.
• Must possess the ability to assist with administering and managing the operation of a secondary school.
• Must possess the ability to plan and supervise the work of others.
• Must possess the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, parents, staff, and the public.
• Must have the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time; exhibit manual dexterity to dial a telephone, to enter data into a computer terminal; to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors and on the telephone; speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors and on the telephone; physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds; to bend, stoop, climb stairs, walk and reach overhead.