Elementary School Principal - Bennett ES

About the role

The principal serves as an educational leader, overseeing daily operations, managing budgets, shaping school policies, fostering a safe environment, and collaborating with staff, students, and parents. Their role is pivotal in promoting academic excellence and student success.

Responsibilities

• Supervises, evaluates and provides instructional direction to all staff in such a way as to implement the total curriculum in relation to the students attending this school
• Organizes the school in such a way as to provide for an optimum learning environment and experiences for students in both curricular and extracurricular programs
• Assigns duties and responsibilities to assistant principals and other key personnel in order to maintain an orderly day-to-day operation
• Manages appropriated and non-appropriated funds to ensure accomplishment of school programs
• Provides appropriate in-service programs for staff which concentrate on achieving school and School Board goals
• Provides effective public relations and communications within the school and the community
• Evaluates and supervises staff in order to maintain a level of competence to ensure the fulfillment of the education goals
• Captures and maintains effective school discipline
• Provides extracurricular activities appropriate for all students
• Manages the operation and maintenance of building and grounds
• Assumes a leadership role in the development and implementation of the continuous improvement plan and budget in cooperation with the school advisory council
• Implements, monitors and assists in the evaluation of the division-wide curriculum action plan at the local school level

Qualifications

• Minimum of a master’s degree and a Pupil Personnel or Postgraduate Professional License
• If a current VA Postgraduate Professional License is not currently held, the candidate must hold a reciprocal out-of-state certification with a comparable Administration and Supervision PreK-12 endorsement
• Must hold a Virginia teaching certificate and be endorsed in Admin & Supervision PreK-12
• Minimum of one year with successful, full-time experience as an administrator in the area or at the level supervised