High School Co-Principal

About the role

The Co-Principal provides shared leadership for the overall success, direction, and vision of the building to develop all learners. They share equal responsibility as the administrative head of the school, collaborating directly on all building leadership decisions.

Responsibilities

• Works collaboratively for the overall success of students.
• Shares equal responsibility as the administrative head of the school, collaborating directly on all building leadership decisions.
• Coleads the instructional support, professional development opportunities, and performance growth of teachers, programs, and staff.
• Provides instructional support to teachers.
• Provides general supervision to students.
• Supervises extracurricular activities.
• Fosters a positive school culture, administers a program of student discipline, and interacts directly with students to encourage positive performance.
• Collaborates on the development of the master teaching schedule, manages daily class schedules, organizes special events during the school day, and assigns teachers to classrooms and students to classes.
• Collaboratively manages building operations, including resolving day-to-day building problems, monitoring staff attendance, and supervising the assignment of substitute teachers.
• Maintains proactive relations and reports appropriately to parents, parent groups, school volunteers, staff, community members, and outside agencies.
• Implements policy and procedures changes from the board, or the State and federal level at the building level.
• Works collaboratively with other building administrators & central office staff.

Qualifications

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Skills

• Ability to read and analyze, and interpret general business periodicals professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of administrators, staff, board and the general public.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference and volume.
• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret and extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, communicate and talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to walk, use fingers, tools or controls.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand and reach with hands and arms.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and depth perception.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
• The employee is continuously required to meet deadlines with severe time constraints, interact with the public and other staff, work irregular or extended work hours.

Other Skills And Abilities

• Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory in specific field.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff and the community.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely both in oral and written form.
• Ability to perform duties with awareness of all district requirements and Board of Education policies.