Assistant Principal

Must hold a North Carolina Administration license (code 012).

Responsibilities

• Assists in implementing student orientation and registration activities (pre-class organization).
• Assists in developing and establishing school goals and objectives and planning the school’s instructional program.
• Provides direction to staff in implementing goals and objectives; interacts and meets with staff to assist in their development.
• Assists in evaluating the school program and staff; initiates needed improvements.
• Involves staff in setting budget priorities.
• Upgrades own professional knowledge and skills.
• Assists in preparation and management of budgets and schedules; coordinates and implements the co-curricular program.
• Assists in defining and disseminating information about school disciplinary policies and procedures to parents, students, staff, and community.
• Communicates and carries out established policies; delegates and accepts responsibility for task completion; communicates program goals, objectives, and policies to the community.
• Assists in supervising and maintaining auxiliary services; uses community resources to supplement the school program.
• Promotes and maintains open communications, positive student attitudes, and respect for the dignity and worth of staff and students; complies with established lines of authority.
• Assists in completion of records and reports; supervises and inventories supplies, textbooks, equipment, and materials.

Requirements

• Physically able to operate a variety of equipment including computers, copiers, calculators, and motor vehicles.
• Exerts up to 10 pounds of force occasionally; light work involving walking or standing to a significant degree.
• Ability to compare and judge characteristics of data, people, or things.
• Ability to speak and signal people to convey or exchange information, including giving instructions or assignments.
• Ability to read and prepare a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, strategic plans, budgets, and evaluations using prescribed formats.
• Ability to speak before groups 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.
• Ability to record and deliver information, explain procedures, and follow oral and written instructions in standard English.
• Ability to utilize mathematical formulas, add, subtract, multiply, divide, use decimals, percentages, algebra, and descriptive statistics.
• 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 office equipment and hand tools with minimal eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions, adapt to stress, and handle emergency situations.
• Ability to communicate effectively via telephone (talking and hearing).

Skills

• Masterful knowledge of curriculum and best practices.
• Highly developed presentation skills.
• Knowledge of effective staff development models that lead to the successful development of effective teachers.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Considerable human relations and human development skills.
• Demonstrated leadership ability.
• Good technical skills with technology and presentation tools.
• Ability to use common office machines and popular computer-driven word processing, spreadsheet, and file maintenance programs.
• Ability to maintain complete and accurate records and statistics and develop meaningful reports.
• Ability to plan and evaluate strategies for new teacher development.
• Ability to exercise tact and courtesy in frequent contact with the public.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability to work with adult learners.

Schedule

Full-time for eleven (11) months.

Pay

Salary based on state and local salary schedules.