Assistant Principal (Student Support)

About Noble

Noble is Chicago’s highest-performing and largest network of public charter schools. Our 17 campuses and 1,600 employees currently serve 12,000 students, 98% of whom identify as persons of color, 90% as low-income, and 81% as first-generation college attendees. Noble’s mission is to ensure that all students have equitable and positive school experiences that equip them to complete college and lead choice-filled lives. We are proud to be recognized nationally for college access and persistence. Noble supports more than 31,000 alumni with 98% of Noble students accepted into college and almost 94% choosing to enroll.

About the Role

All staff at Noble are bound by three key principles that shape a strong and positive campus culture:

• Clear, Setting Clear Expectations: Students flourish when they have a clear understanding of boundaries and expectations. Staff prepare and explain academic and behavioral expectations using easy-to-understand procedures, routines, and directions.
• Consistent, Maintaining Consistency in Responses: Consistency in addressing behaviors ensures fairness and provides students with security, fostering a sense of justice and equity.
• Connected, Building Positive Relationships: Students thrive when they feel a communal connection to their school and can rely on meaningful relationships with adults.

Responsibilities

• Lead and drive results for all school student support functional teams: Discipline/Culture, Dean of Students, and possibly Specialized Services and College.
• Maintain critical collaboration between all student support teams to ensure an aligned approach for the non-cognitive and social-emotional development of students.
• Oversee all student support programming through MTSS and corresponding promotion results.
• Oversee the college counseling program, including senior college seminar, Summer of a Lifetime, early college exposure, and alignment with school-wide advisory structures.
• Coordinate testing, school-wide data support, and student scheduling.
• Plan and implement school events and services.
• Execute Noble’s student code of conduct with fidelity to create a positive, structured learning environment where students are held to high expectations and empowered to grow academically.

Qualifications

Ideal Qualifications

• An unwavering belief that all students can succeed in high school, college, and lead exemplary lives.
• Proven track record of ambitious results in previous roles.
• Self-awareness, a regular practice of reflection, and a desire to continuously improve.
• Follow-through, attention to detail, and a belief that “sweating the small stuff” matters.
• Adept at data collection, analysis, action planning, and execution.
• Experience in managing people, systems, and/or projects.
• Strong commitment to teamwork.
• Consistently exhibits Noble core values (Results, Respect, Humility and Self-Awareness, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Follow Through) and thrives in a collaborative environment.
• A regular practice of reflection and a desire to continuously improve.
• Ability to think and act strategically, demonstrated by resourcefulness in setting data-driven priorities and guiding investment in people and systems.
• Excellent time management skills, consistently thinking into the future to proactively problem-solve.
• Successful written and oral communication skills with a multitude of stakeholders.
• Able to build productive professional relationships with students, staff, and families, especially those in most need of support.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Eligibility to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
• Active Illinois Teaching License preferred, not required.

Pay

Compensation for this position falls between $100,000 and $125,000 per year, representing the average for staff in this role. Factors such as years of experience and skill sets may impact placement within or outside this range.

Benefits

We strive to be the best place to work, and our employee benefits are thoughtfully designed to support us in this ambition.