K-8 Principal - IDEA Hope (26-27)

What You’ll Do

• Lead School Culture Systems: Set the vision for school culture and build and maintain strong schoolwide systems to ensure that vision becomes a reality. Coach and train teachers to master skills and drive this work through your lead team.
• Lead Instructional Systems: Build and maintain strong schoolwide systems to ensure all teachers internalize their content, deliver high-quality first instruction, and analyze data to implement strategic adjustments and interventions that increase student learning. Coach and develop other instructional leaders to do the same and drive this work through your instructional lead team.
• Lead Operational Systems: Build and maintain strong systems for school operations to ensure your campus is safe, welcoming, and efficiently run. Coach and manage the assistant principal of operations to meet student enrollment and daily attendance goals. Coach and develop the assistant principal of operations to be an excellent systems leader and people manager so that they can drive results through their operations team.
• Lead Family Engagement Systems: Build and maintain strong systems for family engagement and communication, including both new family onboarding and ongoing family engagement. Ensure families receive regular communication about their child’s progress and school events, and that staff engage them as key partners in the education of their child. Coach and manage other leaders to do the same so that you can drive this work through others.
• Lead Staff Culture and Talent Management: Make strategic hiring, retention and promotion decisions, and coach other leaders to do the same. Build and maintain systems for fostering a strong staff culture, and coach other leaders to do the same. Build and maintain strong systems for coaching and management so that all staff members receive excellent coaching and are held accountable for meeting high expectations in service of our students.
• Strategically Manage your Campus Budget: Plan how to use your campus discretionary funds to achieve your campus priorities and driving goals. Work with your assistant principal of operations, business clerk and admin assistant to ensure your campus discretionary budget is managed strategically throughout the year. Coach and manage your assistant principal of operations to lead the operations team to meet their budget goals.
• Ensure your Campus Remains in Compliance: Complete all required annual compliance training and ensure your staff members do the same. Build and maintain systems to ensure that staff members and the campus as a whole remains in compliance with all applicable laws and policies. Coach and develop other leaders to do the same so that you can drive this work through others.

What You Bring

• Strong desire to ensure all students go to and through college
• Demonstrated instructional leadership experience with proven results
• Commitment to continuously improving every single day
• Awareness of personal strengths and areas of improvement
• Experience leading a school to dramatic gains in a challenging context
• Ability to navigate complex situations with positivity and assertiveness
• Plan all actions of leader and teachers to achieve rapid, dramatic gains
• Influence others to contribute to rapid, dramatic gains

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree is required. Master’s degree is preferred.
• No certifications are required. Principal certificate is preferred.
• A minimum of 3 years in education is required. Preferred qualifications include at least 3 years of experience as an instructional leader achieving dramatic gains in a challenging context and 3+ years of teaching experience.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to sit for extended periods of time without being able to leave the work area.
• Must be able to work in a confined space or to crawl or move about on hands and knees.
• Must be able to lift and carry or otherwise move 20 pounds (regularly/occasionally).
• Must be able to work in indoor and outdoor environments, including in times of excessive heat or cold.

What We Offer

• Compensation & Benefits: Salaries for people entering this role typically fall between $103,000 and $130,000, commensurate with relevant experience and qualifications and in alignment with internal equity. This role is also eligible for a performance bonus based on organizational performance and goal attainment. Additionally, we offer medical, dental, and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, flexible spending account options, generous vacation time, referral bonuses, professional development, and a 403(b) plan. Employer paid 403(b) retirement matching of up to 4% of your annual compensation.

Learn More

• Visit IDEA Public Schools to learn more about our story and core values.

Equal Opportunity Employer

IDEA Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability, in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in its programs and activities. Any person having inquiries concerning the organization's compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), or Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), may contact IDEA Human Resources at (956) 377-8000.